Beyond the Headlines
The National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) to stop its opposition to the Student Loan Programme. The NEC of the union had on Thursday said ”Nigerians should be aware that the Loan scheme is a way of starving public universities of funding and a ploy to […]
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison on Friday, leveraged social media and fatigue with the Kremlin to rise to prominence. He was for years the most prolific critic of President Vladimir Putin and his policies, returning to Russia after recovering from a near-fatal poisoning attack that his supporters say […]
For the second time in two days, officials from Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Awka Capital Territory Development Agency (ACTDA) confiscated all newspapers from vendors in Anambra state. The Nation reported that on Thursday, February 15, the officials destroyed all the newspapers and smashed all the PoS machines belonging to the vendors, including their tables and […]
An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Friday, ordered the federal government to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of the murder of the founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, and other journalists in the country. Giwa was killed through a letter bomb in his Lagos office on October 19, 1986. Justice Inyang […]
A middle-aged man, Sule Gwamnati, has been shot dead by gunmen who attacked his family house in the early hours of Friday in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was learnt that after shooting Gwamnati, the attackers suspected to be kidnappers went away with his wife, Blessing. Sources said that Gwamnati, […]
Three worshippers have been killed and several others abducted after some suspected bandits in their numbers invaded a mosque in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. Although security agencies and government officials in the state are yet to confirm the incident, residents, told Channels Television that the bandits raided the mosque on Thursday […]
The European Union (EU) says it is set to invest 37million Euros into Nigeria’s power sector. The EU Head of Mission to Nigeria, Amb. Samuela Isopi said this when she visited the Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, on Friday in Abuja. She was accompanied by the new Head of Cooperation of the EU, […]
The Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the FCT Police Command has apprehended one notorious kidnapper, Saidu Abdulkadir. The Force Public Relations of the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh in a statement on Thursday, said the kidnapper was arrested following a raid on their camps bordering Nasarawa and Abuja via Kuje area council, at about midnight […]
Less than 24 hours before the All Progressives Congress governorship primary election in Edo State, one of the aspirants, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has quit the race. In a letter of withdrawal (which was not dated) he sent on Friday to the national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, and copied the acting state chairman […]
President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate upgrade of critical health facilities across the six geo-political zones. Announcing the approval in a statement on Friday, Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, said the upgrades are in line with the administration’s vision of overhauling the health and social welfare sector […]
