Category: Leadership

A public affairs commentator, Mahmud Jega, has called for psychiatric evaluation of the members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), saying it was important to examine the heads of those who take industrial action decisions nearly every year. Jega, who is also the publisher of an online newspaper, 21st Century Chronicle, made the call in a post on his Facebook page on Tuesday evening, challenging the new ASUU President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital…

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A 16-year-old secondary school student in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has been found to have staged her own kidnapping and demanded a ransom of ₦2 million from her family. The girl, an SS2 student at a private school on Watchman Street in Abakaliki, allegedly collaborated with a family friend to carry out the deception. According to the Ebonyi State Police Public Relations Officer, Joshua Ukandu, she contacted a relative claiming she had been abducted and asked for the ransom. The student, who hails from Izzi Local Government Area, initially told police…

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The suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has asked those who are urging him to calm down, saying they are not even sure if he wants to return to office. Fubara spoke to his supporters during a Service of Songs in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Sunday in honour of the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark. The event was organised by the Rivers Elders Forum and attended by several prominent figures. READ ALSO: Pressure Mounts On Tinubu To Sack Defence Minister Badaru Over ‘Rising’ Insecurity ‘Just Six…

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Calls for the removal of the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, have intensified as a federal lawmaker and a youth group declared him unfit to manage the country’s worsening security crisis. The Afenifere Youth Vanguard for Peace in Nigeria, AYPN, on Sunday, backed Hon Yusuf Gagdi, a member of the House of Representatives from Plateau State, who last week issued a scathing criticism of the minister on the floor of the House. Gagdi had raised the alarm over recent terrorist attacks, particularly in Borno State, where insurgents reportedly overran…

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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said there are signs that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may soon split, with its National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, and others possibly defecting to the PDP. The former governor made this disclosure while delivering his keynote address at the PDP congress held at Aminu Kano Triangle in Jigawa. He said, “I’m confident that all those who left the PDP will return, including Ganduje, because very soon, the APC will burst and split into factions,…

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