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The meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU and the Federal Government has again ended without an agreement. The striking lecturers had met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee yesterday at the National University Commission in Abuja with high hopes of resolving the impasse but a senior member of ASUU, who pleaded anonymity said members of the Briggs renegotiation committee did not come with any […]

The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 appropriation bill to the National Assembly in September. Akabueze revealed this in Abuja at training on budget preparation organised for over four thousand budget officers drawn from about nine hundred ministries, departments, and agencies of the government, using the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System. Akabueze who was […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has arrested 120 citizens for alleged illegal oil theft. The spokesman for the anti-graft agency Wilson Uwujaren who disclosed this said they carried out a joint operation with personnel of the 6 Division Garrison, Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and the criminals were caught after offloading oil into vehicles at the waterfront for distribution within and outside Rivers State. The suspects […]

The All Progressives Congress APC in Ebonyi State yesterday ordered immediate arrest of Ann Agom-Eze, a senatorial primary aspirant for Ebonyi South over alleged anti-party and perjury against the party in the state. The state chairman of the party in the State Stanley Okoro Emegha, who stated this while speaking to journalists in Abakaliki capital of Ebonyi State called on the Nigeria Police to arrest her anyplace, she is sighted […]

The Commissioner for Women and Children’s Affairs Anambra state, Ify Obinabo says the State government has set up a family court to handle matters relating to domestic violence. Obinabo, said the court already has 10 pending cases, with nine suspects remanded, warning that the government of Chukwuma Soludo has zero- tolerance for domestic violence. While revealing that Anambra had the lowest cases of domestic violence, the commissioner lamented that the […]