Lectures of Nigeria’s public universities who have been on strike since 14 February will decide whether or not to go back to work at its National Executive Council meeting to be held between 30 July and 1 August. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) accused the Federal Government of failure to address their age-long demand for improved conditions of …

Popular actress, Ada Ameh died in Warri, Delta State on Sunday night. She was said to be a guest of an oil company executive and his family when she suddenly collapsed. The President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas confirmed that Ameh died on Sunday at a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation hospital. Ameh, 48, played the role of …

The comprehensive renovation of Revenue House of the Lagos State Government will be completed by the end of August, with the contractor putting finishing touches on the imposing edifice located in Alausa, the state’s seat of government. On Monday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu led an on-the-site inspection of the ongoing renovation work at the eight-storey building, formerly known as Elephant House, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Penpushing Media on its fourth anniversary lecture scheduled to hold 21 July 2022 in Abeokuta. President Buhari also commended the media organisation for its strides within its short period of operations. In a congratulatory letter on Monday signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President stated that he …

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has mourned the passage of Chief (Mrs) Kemi Nelson, a member of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the apex leadership body of the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC). Nelson, a former Executive Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and ex-South-West Zonal Women Leader of the APC, died on Sunday at the age of …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yakubu Maikyau is the new president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). He will succeed Mr Olumide Akpata who was elected on 28 August 2020. Maikyau scored 22,342 votes to defeat his major opponent, Joe-Kyari Gadzama, also a SAN, who polled 10,842 votes. The third candidate Taidi Gunu polled 380 votes, representing four per cent …

Doctors who handled the surgical procedure on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday have announced that it went on successfully. Osinbajo himself and his spokesperson, Lola Akande had earlier announced Nigeria’s No 2 citizens scheduled for surgery over a “recurrent pain in his leg”. Akande disclosed that Osinbajo’s surgery took place at the Duchess International Hospital in Lagos. In its …

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is hospitalised, and he to undergo a surgical operation as a result of an excruciating pain in his leg. In a tweet on his verified Twitter account on Saturday evening, Osinbajo said: “I have been admitted today at the hospital for a medical procedure on account of a recurrent pain in the leg possibly …

A Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences court in Ikeja has sentenced a Lagos resident to life imprisonment for defiling his three daughters. The daughters were said to be aged 10, 20, and 24, respectively. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the judge, Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution proved the case of defilement and rape brought against the defendant, …

Two Catholic priests have been abducted in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The priests, identified as John Cheitnum and Donatus Cleopas, were said to have been abducted on Friday at Gure parish. The Chancellor of the Kafanchan Catholic Diocese, Emmanuel Okolo said in a statement that the priests were kidnapped shortly after they arrived the parish rectory of …