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Nigerians students are to spend at least another two months at home as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU in the early hours of Monday extended its warning strike. NPO had reported earlier that the Union said the strike continuation was inevitable. The union’s decision was reached after its National Executive Committee meeting which ran from Sunday evening to the early morning of Monday. It was held at the University of Abuja. The union is expected to make official statement concerning this new development today. ASUU had commenced the one-month warning strike last month with a view to getting…
The US says China will face harsh “consequences” if it aids Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, according to US media reports. Unnamed officials reportedly told multiple US news outlets that Russia asked China to provide military assistance after it began the invasion. The Chinese embassy in Washington said it was not aware of this request. The warning comes ahead of a meeting in Rome on Monday between top US and China officials. Since the start of the crisis Beijing has expressed strong rhetorical support for long-time ally Moscow, but is not publicly known to have provided any military or…
First Bank of Nigeria has urged its customers to take advantage of the it’s ongoing Verve Card campaign designed to reward customers for their continued usage of the debit Card. The eight-week promo which is expected to end on Wednesday, 30 March 2022 will see to 2,601 customers winning various prizes. The prizes, according to a statement made available to the NPO Reports, include N20,000 Cash Prize, N10,000 Cash Prize, N10,000 worth of airtime; power generating sets, refrigerator, cooking gas and the grand prize of a brand-new car. The promo will reward customers on a weekly and monthly basis. In…
The National Assembly has sought more clarifications from the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola over an executive bill which seeks to bring all para-military agencies under a single governing board. Currently, only the Nigerian Immigration Services and the Nigerian Correctional Services come under the governing board while the amendment to the bill seeks to bring under the same board the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Federal Fire Services. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, had read President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter on the executive bill dated February 9, 2022, at the…
An Islamic Scholar, Malam Ali Abdussalam, says negative exposure of children to social media is responsible for the moral decadence in the society. Abdussalam, also the Director, Ali Institute for Quran Memorisation (AIQM), Ibadan, made the assertions Sunday at the third graduation ceremony of the complete memorisation of the Quran of the institute in Ibadan . The director said that the society was getting more corrupt daily because of childreni exposure to negativity in music, movies and social media that were mostly destructive to their moral and spiritual senses. He said that the aftermath of effect of these negative tools…
President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed a plan to conclusively end the fuel scarcity in the country, a presidency official has said. The official, who disclosed this on Sunday in Abuja, said the plan would ensure that incidence of fuel scarcity does not occur again. He said that in a matter of days, virtually every state in the country would have returned to a very low queue situation at filling stations or a complete return to normalcy. The source said the plan, which was presented to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) last week, had been signed off previously by the president…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied alleged failure of the integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). ASUU President, Mr. Emmauel Osodeke, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. Osodeke was reacting to recent statements credited to both the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and Director-General, NITDA that UTAS had failed the integrity test. “This press statement is necessitated by the need for ASUU to put the records straight on the grounds already covered in our patriotic struggle to…
The spate of insecurity at the Federal Capital Territory rared its head on Sunday again as two journalists from the PUNCH Newspapers stable were on Sunday robbed and kidnapped in separate incidents. It was gathered that while Solomon Odeniyi was robbed at the Lugbe area of Abuja, Amarachi Orjiude was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in his house. In his account which was published in the PUNCH, the correspondent Odeniyi noted that he was asleep in his apartment after a downpour in the wee hours of Saturday when a gang of six armed robbers invaded his room. “They came in around…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities late Sunday declared that continuation of nationwide strike has become inevitable. This hint was dropped after the meeting it held on Sunday with members of the National Executive Committee of the union. Although the union said on its Twitter handle that the meeting was still going on, it already indicated that the strike would be inevitable. The one month warning strike ended today having declared same exactly a month ago at the campus of the University of Lagos. Different chapters of the union had been voting to determine whether to continue with a total…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Union on Sunday asked Nigerians to hold the Federal Government responsible if the nation’s universities are shut indefinitely. This was just as the Academic Staff Union of Universities promised what it called “suffocating strike” if the government fails to heeds its call for an urgent resolution. Chairman of SSANU in an address on Sunday said the union had employed all means to have the universities open.