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Eyewitnesses have said 17 students of Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School, died in Tuesday’s tragedy, debunking claims by the Police that “only two males died on the spot”. Meanwhile, Lagos State government has shut down the school until January next year. The Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, made the announcement when she visited the school on …

The National Association of Nigerian Students has given British Mission in Nigeria 72 hours to rescind its decision to pause issuance and processing of visas to Nigerians over discovery of COVID-19 Omicron variant. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NANS gave the the ultimatum during its protest at British Deputy High Commission in Lagos on Tuesday over the travel …

It is no longer news that Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas, is one of the commodities hit the hardest by inflation this year. As a friend of mine joked recently: “Cooking gas is now a status symbol in Nigeria.” When in January 2021, a kilogram of cooking gas was selling for N336 per kilogram, many thought …

•HURIWA alleges lax oversight of regulator by BuhariThe Federal Government has denied a report by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) alluding that the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) was laundering N18 billion through Nigeria’s financial system to deepen terrorism. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), which reacted yesterday via a statement issued by …

As ultimatum given by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to the government to implement its demands or face another round of industrial action ended on Sunday, the former has said Nigerians will know its position within 24 hours. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, told Vanguard on the telephone that the union would declare its position shortly after consultations …

Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday kicked against the 2022 budget proposal of Governor Godwin Obaseki which he submitted to the ten man state house of assembly last Wednesday alleging that he duplicated projects to siphon state funds. A statement by the Assistant State Publicity secretary of the party, Victor Ofure Osehobo said the budget proposal …

Thousands of The Gambian citizens have taken to the streets in protest after the December 4 presidential election result. The election, contested by six candidates, was won by the incumbent president, Adama Barrow. Mr Barrow, who contested the election under the flagship of the National People’s Party (NPP), polled 457, 519 votes to defeat his closest rival, Ousainou Darboe, of the …

•We’ll sit down with labour to dialogue —FG The Nigeria Labour  Congress, NLC, yesterday said it has commenced mobilisation against the Federal Government’s proposed increase in petroleum pump price of over 200 percent in 2022. The Federal Government had announced that it would withdraw subsidy on petroleum products next year, saying the burden of  subsidy was heavy to bear. But …

Executive Director of the Prisons Fellowship Nigeria, PFN, Mr. Benson Iwuagwu has attributed the recent spate of jailbreaks across the country as a reflection of failed justice system. Iwuagwu who stated this yesterday in Kano at the opening ceremony of a two-day workshop on inmate’s behavioral and cognitive modification program noted that the justice system must be reformed before such …

A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, fixed February 21, 2022 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa querying the Nigerian citizenship of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The group had asked the court to disqualify Atiku as presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and prevent him from contesting …