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The Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, has said striking university workers including the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions are mean and wicked for shutting down universities across the country. This is just as the ASUU’s …

Former Chief Imam of the National Assembly Legislators’ Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid, has said the termination of his appointment by the mosque’s management committee was a necessary price he had to pay for identifying with the suffering masses and speaking truth to power. Sheikh Khalid said this when he spoke with Vanguard exclusively in Abuja on Monday night, …

Over 72.77 million active telecommunication subscribers have been barred from making calls on their SIMs, following a directive from the Federal Government to telecommunication companies. On Monday, the Federal Government ordered telecommunications companies to enforce compliance with its National Identification Number-Subscriber Identity Module policy by restricting outgoing calls on all unlinked lines as the deadline for the verification expired on …

…I paid price for speaking truth to power, says sacked Imam The Management Committee of the National Assembly Legislators’ Quarters Mosque, Apo, Abuja, has sacked Sheikh Nuru Khalid, the Chief Imam, who was accused of criticing the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in his sermon on Friday. Khalid had earlier been suspended for the sermon but reacted that only God …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated Engr. (Mrs.) Bose Ogbeifun Oviasu on her emergence as the first female president of Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW). In a statement, the governor said “the development reflects the new thinking of the modern era of the Edo Nation, which takes pride in opening up the space and ensuring opportunities for women …

History was recently made when Edo-born businesswoman and Philanthropist, Engr. (Mrs.) Bose Ogbeifun-Oviasu was elected the first female president of Edo umbrella organization in the Diaspora, known as Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW). Engr. Oviasu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Trustcare Group Homes Inc. in Michigan, United States of America. The election which took place on Saturday …

Barely 24 hours after the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, patrolled the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, terrorists kidnapped 22 persons and raided houses in Jere town along the highway, The PUNCH has learnt. The PUNCH had reported that IGP Usman had on Saturday gone on patrol along the Abuja-Kaduna highway with some senior officers and men with a view to ensuring adequate security along the highway. Usman …

Subscribers who are yet to link their phone numbers to their NINs will not be allowed to make calls until the linkage is done. The federal government has ordered telecommunication companies to bar calls from phone numbers that are yet to be linked to their National Identity Numbers (NIN) from today, April 4. Subscribers who are yet to link their …

About a hundred groups of bandits with over 30,000 militants are operating in the northwest, killing, maiming, and kidnapping innocent citizens and residents of the region. The rural banditry and terrorism ravaging Nigeria’s northwestern states are products of a poor criminal justice system, ethnic profiling and criminality propelled by poverty, a body of security experts said in a report. The Centre …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has said its manifest showed that there were 362 passengers on board the train before the attack happened. One week after terrorists attacked a train in Kaduna State, over 100 of the passengers have yet to be accounted for, an official has said. PREMIUM TIMES reported last Monday’s attack on the Kaduna-bound train by terrorists who …