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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate withdrawal of Nigeria from all international basketball competitions for a period of two years with immediate effect. Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. Dare, represented by Ismaila Abubakar, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, said a
The former Minister of State, FCT, Senator Solomon Ewuga’s daughter, Adzuayi Ewuga, a female pilot, has died in a plane crash in Central Cameroon. Report said the pilot, who died in a mini-aircraft belonging to Caverton Aviation Cameroon, had 11-passengers on board. According to local media reports, the aircraft was flying from Yaounde Nsimalen Airport
Ayet-to-be identified student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State has been burnt to death by her colleagues for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (SAW). SaharaReporters gathered that the incident happened on Thursday morning. She was burnt to death by Muslim students who dragged her out of her hostel. Deborah was stoned and
The students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka have joined on the ongoing protest for the prolonged ASUU strike. They earlier updated.. “All Nigerian Varsity Students within and outside Enugu are by this notice invited for a peaceful March against strike actions on Varsity Education in Nigeria. Date: Thursday 12th May, 2022 Time : 9am Meeting Point: UNN
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plight of students and call off the ongoing strike. He made the appeal at the 19th National productivity day and conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit award held on Thursday. The President equally urged students in public
The frustrating students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, OAU have taken their anger to the Federal Government road as they have blocked the Ife-Ibadan expressway. The completely abandoned Nigerian Students have been trying in their own way to remind the Federal Government whose main interest is on the 2023 elections that their future is more important
Joseph Bako, a reverend father of the Catholic Church in Kaduna State who was kidnapped by bandits two months ago, has died in the custody of his abductors. The victim reportedly spent eight weeks in captivity before his death. Although the police authorities have yet to confirm the incident, the Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese
President Goodluck Jonathan has formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to recontest for President in 2023. This comes hours after disowning a nomination form purportedly procured for him by a northern group. Following reports that a coalition of northern socio-cultural groups, basically of Fulani extraction, purchased N100 million nomination
The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, on Wednesday summoned the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and other registered trade unions in Nigerian universities to an emergency meeting Gambari will chair the meeting tagged “Tripartite-Plus”, scheduled to hold at Banquet Hall, Presidential
Niger Delta Affairs Minister Senator Godswill Akpabio has resigned in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive. The President during Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting ordered all cabinet members eyeing elective offices to quit before May 16. In a chat with The Nation, Personal Assistant to the Minister on Media, Jackson Udom, confirmed his resignation.