archiveFebruary 2020

The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has opposed the formulation of a new law to fight sexual harassment of female students in higher institutions, it rather canvassed for the review of existing laws to adequately address the issue of sexual harassment in higher schools. National President of ASUU, ...

  Eighty four people died in road traffic crashes in Edo, Delta and Anambra from October to December last year. Mr Kehinde Adeleye, Zonal Commanding Officer of Zone Rs 5 of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has felicitated with the First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, and Gov. Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State over their birthday celebration. In a statement signed by its Chairman, Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, in Abuja on...

Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, says that constitutional amendment is needed before Nigerians in diaspora can be allowed to vote. Gbajabiamila said this at the Diaspora Voting Stakeholders Workshop in Abuja. He said that millions of Nigerians, who resided outside the country, had as much a...

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, adjourned the hearing of the fresh application that sacked the governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, filed to be restored back to the office, till March 2. The development came as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad announced his headship of a...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 12.13 per cent year-on-year in January 2020. The NBS made this known in its report on Inflation released on Tuesday. It stated that this increase was 0.15 per cent points higher than the...

Activities on the nation’s bourse opened the week on Monday still on a negative mood as sell-off in high capitalised stocks dragged the All-Share Index (ASI) further down by 0.67 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index dipped by 184.93 points or 0.67 per cent to close at 27,570.94 against 27,755.87...

Works Commissioner, consultants to coordinate park managers’ activities names chairmen for two Disciplinary Committees   The Oyo State Government has inaugurated the Park Managers in 33 local governments across the state. Also inaugurated on Monday are the two Disciplinary Committees which are to intervene whenever conflicts arise between the Oyo...

  Fidelity Bank Plc has trained over 3,000 undergraduates from various tertiary institution on skills acquisition through its youth empowerment programme. The bank’s CEO, Nnamdi Okonkwo, made this disclosure on Friday during the closing ceremony of the Fidelity Youth Empowerment Academy (FYEA) held at the Sokoto State University (SSU) in...

  Spain’s footballing authorities have given FC Barcelona the green light to make an emergency signing after confirming forward Ousmane Dembele will miss at least the next six months with a hamstring issue. The France international, who joins fellow striker Luis Suarez on the sidelines, underwent surgery in Finland last...