Beyond the Headlines
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Joint Action Committee, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, have said their planned protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities will hold as planned. The labour unions said they were not aware of […]
The crisis in the nation’s public university system has taken a new twist as members of the Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) rejected the report of the Professor Nimi Briggs-led renegotiation committee. Both unions insisted that they would not be bound by the recommendations of […]
The Kaduna government says 645 persons were killed across the state between January and June 2022. Aruwan said this in his remarks at a public presentation of a report on the “Southern Kaduna Pilot Peace Project on Inter-religious Harmony”. The event took place earlier in the week, but the commissioner published his full remarks […]
The United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate release Kanu […]
Russian missile strikes on railway infrastructure and a military airfield in central Ukraine on Saturday left at least three people dead, including a Ukrainian serviceman, the regional governor said. “Nine Ukrainian servicemen were injured and one serviceman is dead. First, two guards of an electrical substation were killed,” Andriy Raikovych, the head of the […]
Disturbed by the alleged killing of scores of wedding guests in Imo State by Ebubeagu, a Civil Rights body, HURIWA, has urged the National Assembly’s public petitions committee to investigate the alleged massacre on their own for the public good. The Civil Society Group, HURIWA, said the committees on the public petitions of both […]
A Nigerian doctor named Obinna Obeta, residing in the UK has been accused of plotting with former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest a kidney for their daughter. Obeta, 50, appeared before the Bexley Magistrate court on Thursday, July 13, and […]
.…PDP National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu behind the criminal swap of the Name of the winner with the aspirant that came last. … Ogbu says: Iam Still PDP candidate “No cause for alarm, perpetrators shall face justice” There is palpable outrage in Ideato South council area of Imo state following the shocking PDP replacement of […]
A delegation of United States-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) has said Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Peter Obi may force the 2023 contest into a re-run. Kwankwaso is the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), while Obi is the flagbearer of Labour Party in the 2023 […]
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Friday, said the defeat suffered by the All Progressives Congress at the July 16 governorship election was a temporary setback. Oyetola, who spoke at a meeting held at Osun Government House, Oke Fia, Osogbo, and attended by many political appointees and party leaders, also said the loss was […]
