University of Abuja (UniAbuja) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff to professorial rank. While 13 of the staff were promoted to the rank of professor, 10 others were elevated to the rank of associate professor. Acting Director, Information & University Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, noted in a statement, yesterday, the decision w...
•Paul Ananaba A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Prof. Paul Ananaba has advocated for all election petitions to be concluded within 60 days and before swearing-in. The Supreme Court had yesterday affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s election, 171 days after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) lodged their appeal...
•Tinubu and Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan has visited President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The visit comes 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld Tinubu’s election in the keenly contested February 25, 2023 presidential poll, reports Channels TV. Though the reason for Jonathan’s visit co...
•Tinubu and Shettima The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), USA, has demanded the immediate resignation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose mandate was affirmed yesterday by the Supreme Court, which dismissed the appeals lodged by the two runners-up of the February 25, 2023 election – Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Part...
At least 20 persons were injured following a tanker explosion at a filling station in the Rigasa area of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Wednesday. The victims who sustained varying degrees of injuries from the incident include five firefighters, men of the Kaduna State Vigilante Service, and passersby, reports The PUNCH. The [&...
•Emefiele Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is currently being detained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. This paper can confirm that Emefiele, who is currently being interrogated at the National Headquarters of the anti-graft agency, Jabi, Abuja, was picked up by EFCC operatives las...
The move to impeach the Deputy Speaker of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, might have again hit the rocks following the resolve of 11 out of 26 State House of Assembly members to distance themselves from the process. The 11 lawmakers accused the Speaker of the Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, of unilaterally writing the Chief Judge of […]
•Infographic analysis of sexual violence in Nigeria Despite the passage into law in 2015 of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act, cases of domestic, and sexual violence have been upswing across states, even though, the main thrust of the law was to eliminate violence in private and public life, prohibit all forms of violence [&h...
Former Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, has noted that amidst insecurity arising from banditry and terrorism over the years in Kaduna State, Catholic church family was the worst hit, losing several of priests to terrorists. Shehu Sani is the President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN). He [&hel...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday conducted a full-scale security emergency exercise at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. A statement by Mr. Abdullahi Yakubu-Funtua, the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, FAAN, said that the agency yesterday carried out a bomb threat simulation ex...
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