A decision whether to call off the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities will be taken on Sunday. According to Punch, ASUU National Executive Council will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members…
A 25-year-old man identified as Elisha Tari, who was apprehended by men of the Adamawa State Police Command for stoning two of his children to death has opened up on why he committed the heinous act. Tari who is an indigene of Himike village in Michika Local Government Area, was arrested last Thursday, August 18,…
In Katsina State, a couple named Muhammad Umar and Sayyada Shamsiyya inexplicably passed away. The incident’s specifics are still hazy, but it was heard that the couple, who had recently wed, was discovered dead in their home in the Katsina metropolis’s Unguwar Rahamawa neighborhood at around 5:00 pm on Friday, August 19, 2022. Neighbours said…
A group of gunmen invaded a hotel named 16 HOUR hotel, Alomilaya area of Ganmo, Ilorin, shot indiscriminately, killing the owner of the hotel, Kayode Akinyemi, 47, while his manager named Emmanuel Olushila Ojo was seriously injured and presently receiving treatment at the general hospital Ilorin. A statement released by SP Okasanmi Ajayi, spokesperson of…
The Miyetti Allah group should be banned in Nigeria in the group way that the Indigenous People of Biafra were (IPOB). Prof. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, made the statement while asking why a group that endangers the lives of other Nigerians is permitted to carry out such acts. According to Soyinka, the inciting statements…
The body of a yet-to-be-identified 11-year-old boy was found hanging in his family compound at the Federal Housing Estate, Kubwa, in Abuja over the weekend. The father of the deceased, Umar Yahaya confirmed that he and the mother of the deceased boy were not at home when the incident happened. It was their neighbors who found their…
On Monday, August 22, Aisha Yesufu, a co-founder of the BBOG and a human rights activist, celebrate her 24th wedding anniversary. This morning, Aisha posted pictures of them before and after, along with the caption; ”I was 24 years 4 months and 5 days when I got married. Today I have been married for 24…
A really interesting video has emerged online showing a police van covered with muddy water. The police van is seen almost submerged in water after flood swept over some parts of Sango area in Ogun state. The video, which has gone viral, showed water inside the trunk of the van and the water level as…
According to the prime minister’s announcement on August 21 that the government of Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, homosexuality will henceforth be accepted in the city-state. The government will delete Section 377A of the Penal Code, a colonial-era statute that criminalizes male-to-male intercourse, according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also noted that…
After the water tank scaffolding from a nearby building collapsed on the house they live in on Adeleye Street, Lady Lark, Bariga region of Lagos State on Sunday night, August 21, two children have died and three male adults have suffered various degrees of injuries. Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the permanent secretary of the Lagos State…