Varsity Lecturers Earning Same Salary For 15 Years – ASUU Threatens Nationwide Strike as FG Stalls Settlement
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has lamented that Nigerian university lecturers have been on the same salary for the past 15 years. Speaking to newmen on Wednesday in Benin City, Edo State, ASUU Benin Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Monday Igbafen decried…
Two Dead, One Injured in Kwara Church Attack – Police Confirms
The police in Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that two people were killed and one injured during a bandits attacks in Eruku, a boundary town in the Ekiti Local Government Area. A parish of the Christ Apostolic Church…
45 Kidnap Victims Regain Freedom in Kastina After Peace Talk With Bandits
Abductors have freed no fewer than Forty-five people who were kidnapped in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State after renewed peace talks under the Operation Safe Corridor initiative. The development follows a negotiation involving a bandit leader identified as…
Help Us Save Nigeria’s Democracy – Turaki Begs Trump
The newly elected factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Turaki, has begged the United States President, Donald Trump and the international community to intervene in Nigeria’s worsening political situation. Speaking to journalists outside the party’s national secretariat…
Mad Man Kills Soldier in Lagos
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of a soldier on duty in the Imota area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, after he was attacked by a mentally unstable individual. According to the force in a statement by the acting Deputy…
One of Kebbi Abducted Schoolgirls Escapes
A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The student arrived home late Monday, hours after the kidnapping at the Government…
I Cannot Guarantee That it Won’t Happen Again – VDM Tenders Apology Over Fight With Jollof
Social media influencer and activist Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has tendered a public apology following an altercation between him and comedian Freedom Atsepoyi, widely known as Mr Jollof, which caused delays on a United Nigeria Airlines flight. In…
I’m Not Like That, I Was Just Defending Myself – Jollof Tenders Apology Over Fight With VDM
Nigerian comedian Freedom Atsepoyi, popularly known as Mr Jollof, has broken his silence following an altercation with Very Dark Man (VDM) on a commercial flight. In a viral video seen by NEWSMAXNG on Monday, the two engaged in a physical…
Warn Ayodele! – APGA N’Youth Leader Tells Tinubu Over ‘Igbos Are Nigeria’s Problem’ Statement
The national youth chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Mr. Eze-Onyebuchi Chukwu, has urged president Tinubu to caution “self acclaimed prophet, Primate Ayodele” over his alleged statement attributing the problems in Nigeria to Igbos. According to Chukwu who…
Russian Missile Strike Kills Teen, Nine Others Wounded in Eastern Ukraine
A Russian missile attack has killed a teenage girl and wounded at least nine people in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, its governor said on Tuesday. Moscow has been intensifying its daily drone and missile barrages in recent months, targeting Ukraine’s…