Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has raised an alarm over fake social media accounts. He announced this on Monday in Abuja, attributing the development to the cloning and opening of fake social media accounts, meant to spread fake news and hamper the growing popularity of the Obi/Baba-Ahmed […]
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday said its members in Abia State have been on strike for almost a year over unpaid salaries. President of the association, Dr Dare Ishaya, disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. He criticised the Abia State Government for owing resident doctors their […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike. The association, in a statement on Monday signed by Emmanuel Osodeke, its president, said decision was made after a meeting of ASUU executives on Sunday. It said the rollover was to give the federal government time to resolve the outstanding issues. On […]
With lingering insecurity in the country, especially the recent attacks in Abuja, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned South-East politicians to jettison the idea of returning to the region without its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The residents of Abuja have been gripped with fear, following incessant attacks by terrorists last week, while […]
Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), does not have the needed experience to lead Nigeria. Okowa, who is the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke in an interview with BBC pidgin. While admitting that Obi has experience from being a former governor, […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra has warned elders and politicians of South-East extraction never to return to the region without its Leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The group also noted that the peace of the South East and Nigeria lies with the detained Biafran leader. The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, stated this […]
The industrial action by members of the Academic Sftaff Union of Universities, ASUU, will continue as members of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union did not consider the option of suspending the action at its meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja. Checks by Vanguard showed that the […]
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says God blessed Nigeria with everything except good leadership. Speaking during an online session hosted by the Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) on Sunday, the presidential candidate said the country is currently experiencing the cumulative effect of bad leadership. “What is happening in Nigeria now […]
The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff of Union of Universities has failed to suspend the ongoing strike action, which has led to a shutdown of academic activities in public universities across the country. The PUNCH had exclusively reported that the NEC would meet on August 1, 2022. Sources within the NEC confirmed […]
At least 16 people were killed in two-midweek attacks in northeastern Mali by suspected jihadists on encampments of nomadic tribesmen, local sources told AFP on Sunday. “The killings took place in the evening between Wednesday and Thursday with the same modus operandi: assailants on motorbikes who came into the camp, shot at people indiscriminately […]
