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…Barricade Ife-Ibadan, Nsukka-Opi-Enugu highways …As Buhari begs ASUU to consider students’ plight, call off strike Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, and their counterparts at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, yesterday took to the highways, stopping vehicular movements in protest against the protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. While the OAU …

• FG releases detailed categories of persons expected to resign• Emefiele meets Buhari, says there will be news soon• Political appointees sue APC, INEC over disqualification threats• Afenifere: You’ve done well by asking appointees to resign but apply same decisiveness to insecurity, ASUU Ministers affected by the presidential directive to resign after declaring their interest to contest in 2023 general …

The Sokoto State Police Command said it has arrested two suspects in connection with the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education who was lynched by a mob on Thursday. Ms Samuel was said to be 200 level student of the Department of Early Childhood Education in the college. The victim was accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, a …

Senator Shehu Sani, yesterday, said the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government has failed in the fight against insecurity despite spending N4.2 trillion on defence and security in seven years. Sani in Asaba as a guest speaker at a two-day seminar/workshop on “Good Governance and Democratic Sustainability Vis-a-Vis Electoral Process,” organised by the Asaba Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union …

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has met with Christian leaders and heads of security agencies in the state following the lynching of a student for allegedly making blasphemous comments. The governor’s spokesman, Muhammad Bello, said in a statement that the governor cut his political engagements to return to Sokoto to meet the stakeholders. The meeting was attended by …

*Promises to fill vacant positions soon President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a valedictory session with ten ministers that tendered their resignation letters to pursue their political ambition in the 2023 elections. President Buhari also promised to fill as soon as possible the vacuum created by the departure of the ministers. Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed …

• Nigeria pushing for plutocracy, says Kukah• Yiaga Africa: APC, PDP used forms’ prices to marginalise youths, women• Garba dumps APC after withdrawing from presidential race• Stakeholders want units in EFCC, ICPC to probe funds, tax politicians• Experts seek leeway for lax campaign finance regulations, monitoring  Described by some stakeholders as obscene, money laundering scheme, investment and fund-raising tactics, the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is investigating the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for suspected money laundering through their accounts in two banks in Abuja, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. It is not clear whether the investigation is connected to the ongoing nomination exercises of the parties that have seen high volumes of money …

The barbaric slaughter of Deborah, a young, female Christian student in Sokoto by her fellow students who, within minutes, transformed themselves into a rampaging and wild mob of religious bigots and fanatics is totally unacceptable. It is also inhuman and un-Islamic. Worse still it has set back ethnic and religious harmony in our country and threatens to fuel and resurrect …

Justice Mary Odili, who, yesterday, bowed out the bench of the apex court, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to pay attention to calls for the country to be restructured, warning that some actions that propelled the civil war, were being re-enacted. Justice Odili, who clocked the 70 years mandatory retirement age, spoke at a special valedictory session the Supreme Court …