A University lecturer with Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), Dr Muhammad Sajo has said that those criticizing the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on the ongoing strike, are ignorant of the university system. The lecturer with the Department of English and Literary Studies said this in a statement made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday. ”The anti-ASUU people’s sheer ignorance of the ASUU struggle itself, or based on their envy of the ample opportunities the global university system accords academics which others out of the system don’t have. “However, time will tell when ASUU retires to the pursuit of mainly…
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…Governors also demanded 50% before I could be paid $350m consultancy fees …Money owed consultants is actually $68m, not $418m The controversy between the federal government and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) over the $418 million Paris Club refund has raged on and the Lead Consultant at Linas International Limited, who oversaw the recovery of deductions from Paris Clubs debt buyback funds, Prince Ned Nwoko has revealed that the NGF demanded and received $100 million to prosecute elections in Ekiti, Bauchi, Ondo states. Nwoko who was reacting to newsmen’s inquiries in Abuja on Saturday, said the recent NGF’s outburst on…
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential bid in the 2023 poll, will fail because it is against the principle of power rotation between the South and North. Okechukwu, also a foundation member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday. He referred to the patriotic position of APC Northern Governors’ letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on June 4, as evidence that the rotation of the presidency between the North and South, is intended to unite the country. “After careful deliberation, we wish…
The composition of the Media and Communication Directorate of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Kashim Shettima 2023 presidential campaign has been announced. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Communications, Tinubu Campaign Organisation in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the directorate approved by Sen. Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, was made up of three departments. This, he said, included Public Affairs, Media and Publicity and Strategic Communication. “In the approved directorate, Bayo Onanuga, the Managing Director of The News/PMNews and former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) will continue his role as Director of Media…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election result has come to stay. The commission gave the clarification in a statement titled: “Clarification on Electronic Transmission of Election Result” signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Sunday. Okoye said that electronic transmission of result would be deployed for all future and the 2023 general elections. He said the commission’s attention had been drawn to a misunderstanding arising from a recent short interview granted to a national newspaper on the procedure for result management…
The Police Command in Katsina says it has raided terrorists’ hideout at Unguwan Maizuma village in Danja local government area of the state, killed one and arrested an informant. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah who revealed this in a statement on Sunday in Katsina, said weapons and other items were recovered. “On August 20, 2022 at about 7:30pm acting on credible intelligence that terrorists were sighted in a black spot at Maizuma village, Danja LGA of Katsina state, the DPO Danja led a team of policemen to the area and engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel. The team successfully…
The collaboration between the federal government and states in the Northwest is yielding positive result in checking the menace of Quelea birds threatening crops. The migratory birds that often come into Nigeria from neighbouring countries, target farm produces, with farmers in borders communities receiving a substantial proportion of the heat through incurring massive losses. In Katsina state, the federal government conducted massive aerial spray of chemical across four local government areas of the state to check the threat of the birds. Coordinator, Federal Ministry of Agriculture in the state, Suleiman Salihu said in Katsina that the exercise was carried out…
The Zambian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr Chipoka Mulenga, has urged the President of Dangote Group, Mr Aliko Dangote, to collaborate with the Zambian Government to develop its agricultural sector. Mulenga made the appeal during a Zambian team tour of the 3.00 million metric tonnes Dangote Fertiliser Plant in Lagos. He said the collaboration between Dangote group and the Zambian Government was to establish a fertiliser plant in the southern African country. He said that investment in fertiliser production would not only help the country to be self-sufficient in food production, but also help grow the Zambian economy as…
Princewill Ebubechukwu, a 12-year-old pupil of Gateway Schools in Enugu State, has emerged the winner of the first edition of the Heirs Life Essay Championship. Niyi Onifade, Chief Executive Officer, Heirs Life Assurance Ltd in a statement on Sunday said the nationwide competition was organised by the company with over 1,000 students submitting entries from across the country. He said that Ebubechukwu was rewarded with a new laptop. He said Ebubechukwu’s school, represented by the proprietress, Dr Loveline Ndu received the Heirs Life Essay Championship cup, N500,000 worth of books and other educational materials at the award ceremony held in…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has said that over 100 Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSME) have received export certifications to qualify them for exportation of their products. The Executive Director of NEPC, Dr Ezra Yakusak revealed in Jos on Sunday. Yakusak, who visited the Plateau regional office of the council, commended the team for effectively managing and executing the mandates of the organisation. He also praised the office for its efforts in empowering and sensitising the public to the opportunities in export. On some developments in the sector, the ED noted that the organisation had addressed some of…