•Tinubu and ASUU logo The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the federal government’s plan to establish a United Kingdom university campus in Nigeria, vowing to resist its implementation. ASUU President, Chris Piwuna, made this known today in Bauchi during a public lecture organised by the Sa’adu Zungur University branch ...
•Nasir El-Rufai Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai, has declared that he will not be contesting for any political position in the 2027 general elections. El-rufai made this known in Kaduna yesterday while receiving defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party into the African Democratic Congress, reports The PUNCH. He said his rene...
The federal government’s plan to obtain a $5 billion oil-backed loan from Saudi Arabian oil company, Aramco has been hampered by low oil prices in the international market. A report by Reuters citing four sources said the recent drop in crude oil price has raised concerns among banks that were expected to back the deal. […]
•Gas flare No fewer than 49 gas flare sites have been identified in Nigeria, report from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), has shown. For this purpose, Chief Executive of the NUPRC, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, said the commission is implementing a dual strategy to address gas flaring: by decarbonising flare sites, and b...
•Tinubu and terrorists Amid escalating insecurity across the country, experts and stakeholders have urged the Senate to abandon its proposed two-day national security summit, calling instead for decisive action to address the crisis. They also called on President Bola Tinubu to rejig his security team citing the military’s “embarrassing helple...
•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer Britain’s struggling National Health Service (NHS) will expand the use of so-called community diagnostic centres, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced today, as his Labour government bids to cut hospital backlogs. The new plan, which also includes increasing private sector involvement and the use of tech...
The Lagos State Government has announced that traffic will be diverted away from Eko Bridge to facilitate emergency repairs by the Federal Ministry of Works. A statement by Commissioner For Trasnport, Oluwaseun Osiyemi today, said the repairs will be carried out in four phases, during which the bridge will be intermittently fully or partially ...
•Protest The Take It Back Movement (TIB), a key organiser of the EndBadGovernance nationwide protests, in collaboration with other protest organisers, has announced a massive one-million-man protest scheduled to take place across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, 2024. According to Mr....
•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, says his administration has begun preparing the 2025 budget, which will be presented soon. He said the process is ongoing despite calls by the Martin Amaewhule-led Assembly that he should resubmit the 2024 budget proposal, reports Channels TV. Governor Fubara stated this while addres...
The plan by telecommunication operators in Nigeria to hike tariffs for data and voice calls appears not to have gone down well with Nigerians, warning that any move to further impoverish them would be resisted. The planned resistance is coming on the heels of a joint statement released yesterday, by the Association of Licensed Telecom [&hellip...
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