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Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised the alarm over the exodus of lecturers from the nation’s universities for greener pastures abroad. The union attributed the development to the Federal Government’s poor treatment of its members which it said had forced many to venture into other sources of livelihood. The National President, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who spoke to …

Edo State is growing the largest oil palm project in Africa as part of efforts to tap from its natural endowments and decouple from the oil economy in its economic diversification drive, Governor Godwin Obaseki has said. The governor made this disclosure today at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Conference, tagged ‘Bold Transitions,’ held in Lagos State. Obaseki made …

Over 50 persons, including street beggars, mentally challenged persons and other destitute persons have been evacuated from the GRA axis of Benin City, including Ihama, Boundary and Country Home Roads axis, as well as Sapele Road and Ring Road axis, all within the Benin metropolis by Edo State Government. The evacuation and rehabilitation exercise which began at the weekend is …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Investigators are now searching for evidence to end the controversies that have continued to trail the alleged discovery of a ritualist’s den with 20 mummified bodies along Asoro slope, Ekehuan road, Uzebu quarters, Benin City on August 17, 2022. It was scooped that the search team made several visits to the building with …

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed sadness that God has given Nigeria all it requires to be great but that the absence of purposeful leadership has made it impossible for the nation to reach its potentials. Obi spoke at a leadership summit organized by the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi Leadership, in …

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), began a campaign and dialogue session in endemic communities in Edo on Saturday. NAPTIP organised the exercise in collaboration with the Palace of Oba of Benin with a view to curbing trafficking in the state. Its Director General, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, said the campaign was targeted at nine endemic …

Negotiations With ASUU Ongoing – Adamu The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) have suspended their five-month-old strike for two months. The spokesman of JAC, Peters Adeyemi, who announced the suspension in Abuja, yesterday, explained that the relevant organs of the two unions …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has reiterated that he will reduce insecurity and poverty if he emerges the winner of the 2023 presidential election to rule Nigeria. The former Anambra governor disclosed that he expects to accomplish this by using job creation and reformative investments as mechanisms. He also said he will shift the nation’s …

• Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account One Of Most Mismanaged External Accounts Globally — Stakeholders• Depletion Indicates Poor Economic Management, Fiscal Control — Amadi• ‘Stop Sharing Resources Among States, They Should Be Innovative To Improve IGRs’• Reps Caucus Decries Crude Oil Theft, Urges Probe Of Govt Officials Wasteful culture, poor management, corruption, lack of trust between state and federal governments, and worsening …

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has warned the Nigerian populace not to hate one another while they support their preferred presidential candidates in the warm-up for the 2023 general elections. He gave the analogy of what happened between former President Goodluck Jonathan and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari that a lot of Nigerians killed themselves for them, but the two are …