The high cost of living in the country is not sparing members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who are currently undergoing the 2024 Batch A, Stream 1 orientation in different camps across the country, as the corps members are complaining about the soaring food prices in the Mammy Markets in those camps. The […]
Another round of crisis that may disrupt academic activities is looming in the universities following the decision of the federal government to pay the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the four months withheld salaries in exclusion of other three University based unions. Already, the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Senior Staff ...
•Speaker Obasa The Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the government to support Amina Alege, a 12-year-old student of the Adam Yakubu Memorial High School in Lagos State, who suffered an eye injury after she was allegedly tear-gassed by the police. The incident occurred on Friday, February 9, 2024, in front of a mosque […]
•Falana Activist-lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to compel the federal government, the 36 states of the federation and Abuja to provide free and compulsory education up to junior secondary school level. Falana and his co-plaintiff/applicant, Hauwa Mustapha, filed the suit marked FHC/L/CS/142/2024...
Men suspected to be operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were said to have carried out a midnight operation at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State. Students’ lodges were reportedly invaded at about 2am, reports The PUNCH. Some students have taken to social media, sharing videos and alleging that the me...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of its West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. The total number of candidates who registered for the exam was 85,600 out of which 80,904 actually wrote the exam between October 27 and December 20, 2023. According to a statement rel...
•Kemi Badenoch The United Kingdom and Nigeria are set to sign a partnership agreement that will permit British legal practitioners to operate businesses and render services in Nigeria. In a press release on its website today, the partnership deal between the UK and Nigeria is to promote trade and investment and open new prospects for […...
•Students The woes of hunger, triggered by the increasing cost of living, have stretched their claws to the lives of students in tertiary institutions. Gone are the days when undergraduates return to class with cash and other home appliances depicting their high standard of living, reports Vanguard. Today many parents or guardians can no longe...
•Bandits Students of Nasarawa State origin in tertiary institutions have decried the continuous kidnapping of their colleagues for ransom, and called on the federal and state governments to expedite action towards proffering a lasting solution to the matter. Students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi; the state-owned Isa Mustapha Agwai P...
A 400-Level female student of Kwara State University (KWASU) in Malete, Moro Local Government Area of the state, has allegedly taken her own life. Rashidat Shittu allegedly resorted to suicide over her seemingly disturbing academic status, reports The Nation. A source said the deceased committed suicide by taking “Sniper”. The source said Rash...

