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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has lamented that the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) comes with attendant unprecedented and untold challenges and hardship to both the Students and their Parents. The President of NANS, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said incessant strikes translate to the distortion of learning, unnecessary delays and waste of time in the completion of a course of study, risk to the students for having to travel back and forth and waste of non-available resources and pressure on the part of the parents and general loss ...

The Ekiti State House of Assembly on Wednesday, screened and confirmed the appointment of two new commissioners and reconfirmed 12 others dissolved by the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, in July 2017. The two new commissioners are Mr. Tunde Ogunleye and Mr Ayodeji Alabi.  Chief Ogunleye was designated as Commissioner for Water Resources, while Mr Alabi was designated as Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. The 12 other commissioners earlier dissolved by the Governor were returned to their duty posts, while Barrister Kolapo Kolade was appointed as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice from his former post of commissioner for ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has driven down the cost of crude oil production from $78 dollars per barrel as at August 2015 to $23 per barrel representing 70.5 per cent reduction. The Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), a unit of NNPC, Engr. Dafe Sejebor, who disclosed this during the inauguration of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the unit, said the country had saved a minimum of $3billion per annum. Engr. Sejebor said NAPIMS arrived at the figure after looking at the difference between the $78 and $23 which represent the old and new cost ...

A group of Nigerians living overseas under the aegis of Nigerians In Diaspora Monitoring Group (NIDMG), on Wednesday condemned the alleged invasion of  Wuse market in Abuja by persons protesting against the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari in office for over 100 days. They warned that the protests which were allegedly being sponsored by “vested interests”, constituted grave dangers to Nigeria’s stability more than other ongoing existential threats. The spokesperson of NIDMG (United Kingdom Chapter), Dr. Ibukun Ola, in a statement issued in Abuja, said such protests were already stoking tension at home in Nigeria. He said, “We see the invasion of Wuse Market, which was ...

The Federal Government has commissioned the largest medical warehouse in Abuja. The facility named “Premier Medical Warehouse” is to be used as a medical storage facility to drugs and other medical commodities procured by Federal Government of Nigeria or donated by partners before final distribution to the end users. Commissioning the facility on Monday 14th August, 2017, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole said that the facility was a product of joint effort between the Federal Government and partners. “I want to declare publically that within this country, I am yet to see facility like this, so I truly agree ...

Holy Spirit Mission AKA Happy Family Chapel, is set to host thousands of women to an extra-ordinary prayer conference scheduled to hold from August 16 to August August 19, 2017 from 8.am to 12noon at the Happy Family Chapel, Shasha road, Akowonjo, Egbeda, Lagos. Distinguished women from United States of America and Nigeria are to speak at the event tagged “When Mama Prays”. According to chief host of the prayer conference, Rev. Carol Ighele, “This programme is a praying and teaching conference for females, 16years and above. The woman is a very important member of the family and the nation. “The woman ...

The General Court Martial (GCM) sitting at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Makurdi has sentenced Aircraftman (ACM) Bernard Kalu to death by hanging for shooting and killing his female colleague, late Aircraftwoman (ACW)  Sholape Oladipupo. Delivering the judgement on Tuesday, 15 August 2017, the President of the GCM, Group Captain Elisha Bindul, found ACM Kalu guilty of the charges of murder, house breaking, impersonation, failure to perform military duty, loss of Service property and disobedience to standing  orders. The verdict is, however, subject to confirmation by the Convening Authority. The Defence Counsel, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict, ...

By Ahmed Abba-Aji   It seems the resolution of the recent issues within the Peoples Democratic Party by the Supreme Court and their successful Congress last week, in the midst of the chaos in the ruling All Progressive Congress, has set off alarm bells within the government. At a time when President Muhammadu Buhari is celebrating his 100 days in London, his spokesman, Garba Shehu was telling THISDAY that Buhari is good enough to run in 2019. Does he mean good enough to run for the job of Mayor of London? That the APC and the Presidency is confused and desperate is ...

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D’Tigress camp received an August visitor on Sunday when Nigeria music sensation, Tiwa Savage paid an unscheduled visit to the team at their Protea Hotel abode. The visit of the musician which was facilitated by a board member and athletes’ representative of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Ejike Ugboaja was part of a welfare package put in place by the new NBBF board to motivate the team and aid their bonding ahead of the 2017 FIBA Afrobasket Tournament taking place in Mali. It was unprecedented as it was the first time in the history of any basketball national team that a celebrity paid ...