Beyond the Headlines
National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said the $23million looted fund by the late General Sani Abacha to be returned by the United States government should be used to meet the union’s demands. Osodeke said this during Channels Television Politics Today, on Tuesday while speaking about […]
Two students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Tobiloba Daniel and his suspected lover, Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in Daniel’s off-campus hostel room. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased were both 200-Level students and were writing ongoing examinations when the incident happened. According to an eyewitness, a […]
A middle aged man has been arrested by operatives of Kogi State Police Command for killing his friend, Kehinde Ajayi, and burying his body in his (suspect) house in the Felele area in Lokoja, the state capital. The suspect (name withheld) was said to have killed Ajayi on July 24, 2022, who just bought […]
The president Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said he never said state universities are quacks. The ASUU president said this while speaking on Politics Today, Channels TV on Tuesday. He said, “What I said was very clear. The person on the seat asked me a question that your members […]
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former Vice President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has said Nigeria needs to bake bigger cakes and not bigger debts. Atiku said this in a statement he signed in Kano and made available to newsmen on Tuesday evening. According to him, […]
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi on Tuesday opened up on why the party is entangled in the current crisis before it. Dokpesi accused the former President, Goodluck Jonathan of jettisoning the power rotational arrangement in place hence the current crisis befalling the party. The High Chief said […]
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who helped to end the Cold War, has died at the age of 91. According to Russian news agencies, Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on Tuesday. The late Soviet leader is renowned for bringing the Cold War to an end without bloodshed. The Cold War, which […]
L A businesswoman, Nkechi Ononiwu, has asked an Igando customary court in Lagos to separate her and her boyfriend. The woman approached the court on Tuesday to separate her and the boyfriend who she is co-habiting with on grounds of neglect, battery and infidelity. She told the court that, “My boyfriend usually calls me ashewo […]
Ahead of the February 2023 Presidential elections, 58 deregistered political parties, under the aegis of Conference of Deregistered Political Parties in Nigeria (CDPPN), have resolved to endorse a presidential candidate that they believe is most qualified and highly acceptable by Nigerians to take over the mantle of leadership from President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023. […]
The Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday night, paid a scheduled visit to former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors in Jonathan’s residence, was in continuation of the former Tinubu’s nationwide consultation with critical stakeholders. Tinubu, who was accompanied by […]
