•Tinubu As it is with many Nigerians, the economic pains occasioned by the petroleum subsidy removal and the tuition fee regime sweeping across tertiary institutions in the country have continued to create rumble among students and human rights advocacy groups. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the National Association of P...
The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law has urged the court to sack the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, from office for allegedly violating the National Youth Service Corps Act. The organisation also asked the court to compel the NYSC to nullify the certificates given to Musawa...
•Falana Legal luminary, Femi Falana, SAN, has told Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities to ignore the summons of House of Representatives Committee on TETFUND and Other Services, which asked them to provide details on TETFUND intervention details. In a statement yesterday, Falana said, “In justifying the request, the House Committee annou...
•Photo of teachers torturing, flogging pupils for illustration purposes only Pandemonium erupted at Araromi Ilogbo Secondary School in Oko Afo, Lagos, as pupils of the school protested the demise of one of their colleagues who was allegedly flogged to death by a teacher. The incident was said to have occurred on Thursday when the deceased, [&h...
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
•Mazi Eze A lecturer at the Department of English, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Mazi Eze, has shared his frustration after being denied a N5 million loan due to his monthly salary of N191,000. Narrating his experience in a post on his Facebook page yesterday, Eze recalled his visit to First Bank, Choba, where he […]
Few days after the commencement of the sale of forms for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), prospective applicants have expressed frustration over their inability to link their telephone lines with their National Identification Number (NIN) or ‘incorrect’ information contained in their NIN details. To address issues of...
•Yetunde Adeniji A Senior Special Assistant to the President on School Feeding, Dr. Yetunde Adeniji, has once again cautioned parents against writing their children’s names on school bags or cardigans. She emphasised that inscribing children’s names on the outside of their schoolbags can help people with bad intention address them by name, rep...
Worried by the rising incidences of insecurity across the country and wastages of taxpayers money, Comrade Akinteye Babatunde, President of the Senate, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has called on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to either complete all abandoned projects that dotted the campuse...
•FCT primary school teachers protest Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), today, staged a protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The protesting teachers accused the FCT Area Councils of poor attention to their welfare, reports Channels TV. The teachers protested the non-payment of salary arrears, promotion arrears a...

