Following extension of the strike action embarked upon by the lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, students of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, on Friday staged a peaceful protest over the situation. The students, who were sighted holding placards of various inscriptions, stormed the major highway at the main entrance of the […]
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An APC Presidential aspirant and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu , says he is the only one in the race for the party’s presidential ticket. According to Tinubu he’s not bothered by the number of those aspiring for the APC sole ticket, ahead of the party’s primaries. The APC leader, who […]
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Bishop David Oyedepo, Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, has advised Christians in Nigeria to be united. Oyedepo spoke on Friday in Jos at the funeral of Rev. Isaac Oyebamiji, General Overseer, Chapel of Mercy. The religious leader said the progress of society depends on the unity and love of people of faith. Oyedepo […]
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Senator Chris Ngige, Minister for Labour, Employment and Productivity, has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. Ngige’s resignation is coming less than three weeks after his declaration at Alor, his town in Anambra State. In a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, the Minister said his declaration, which was transmitted live was as a […]
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Scores of students on Friday protested the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union had in February this year declared a warning strike due to the non-implementation of the agreement reached by the Federal Government and the union in 2009. The union, after the expiration of the […]
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Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has reacted to the gruesome killing of Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, North-West Nigeria. Kokomansion recalls that the female student was beaten to pulp and burnt alive by Muslim youths, who accused her of blasphemy on […]
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The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has suspended his political activities and returned to Sokoto over the gruesome murder and lynching of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. According to reports the serious tension surrounding the killing and lynching of the female student on Thursday led to a close […]
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has faulted the conspiratory silence for over 24 hours of President Muhammadu Buhari over the brutal hacking to death of a 200 level Christian student of the Sokoto College of Education, Miss Deborah Samuel Yakubu, by Islamic extremists in the school over alleged blasphemy. The human rights […]
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Catholic Communicators in Nigeria, under the auspices of SIGNIS, have described the alleged stoning to death and setting ablaze of a female student, Deborah Yakubu in Sokoto State by a mob as satanic and babaric. The group, while condemning in strong terms the lynching of the 200-level female Christian student, of Shehu Shagari College of […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday disclosed that it may consider alternatives for storing sensitive election materials outside the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said this while responding to a question on the political ambition and partisanship of the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Kokomansion recalls that Emefiele […]
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