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Nov

06

2022

Anxiety as ASUU decides on shutting down universities

Education, PoliticsASUU, Education, Next Level, Nigeria

Less than one month after the Academic Staff Union of Staff Universities, ASUU, suspended its 8-month industrial action, the union and the Federal Government are back on a warpath. Already, the National Executive Council of the ASUU is set to meet on Monday (tomorrow) to decide whether to embark on another strike or not. The meeting, which is expected to be held at the University of Abuja campus, comes on the heels of the October salary cut received by members of the union, weeks after suspending the prolonged industrial action. Recall that ASUU had on February 14, 2023, shut down…

Nov

05

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ogun guber candidate, Adebutu tells those who cannot accept Ayu to leave PDP

Opinion, Politics2023, Atiku Abubakar, Iyorchia Ayu, Next Level, Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

PDP governorship candidate in Ogun State, Hon. Ladi Adebutu has asked the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and others who could not accept Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to leave the party. Recall, Wike and four other governors of the PDP have insisted that Ayu should resign as the Chairman of the party or they would not support the presidential candidacy of Atiku Abubakar. According to them, Ayu had promised that he would resign his position if a northerner emerged as the presidential candidate of the PDP. After Atiku emerged winner of the…

Nov

05

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

1,789 persons kidnapped within six months in Kaduna – Commissioner

Lifestyle, Metro, PoliticsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, El-Rufai, Kaduna State, Kidnappers, Metro, Nigeria, Politics, Security

About 1,789 persons in Kaduna State were abducted by bandits in six months this year, the state has revealed. Presenting the security situation report for 2022 to the state government on Friday, the state Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, explained that within the same period 161 bandits were killed in various communities encountered by the security agencies. According to the commissioner, the security agents at different locations in the second quarter neutralized 59 bandits. In the same period under review, he explained that 285 persons were killed due to banditry, communal clashes and reprisals. In…

Nov

05

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

El-Rufai’s Son, Co, playing Tinubu as a pun to divide the South – ANYA.

Amos Oge Kalu, News, Opinion, Politics2023, All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Security

The attention of Abia North Youth Agenda, ANYA, has been drawn to a dangerous ethnic card being played by the loud-mouth, noisy, untamed son of the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Bashir El-Rufai in his latest attempt to hoodwink the candidate of All Progressives Congress in the impending presidential contest of 2023, Alhaji Bola Ahned Tinubu. It is on record that Bashir El-Rufai is a proven and confirmed ethnic bigot whose hatred for other Nigerians, especially, Ndigbo is phenomenal, therefore one doesn't have to be surprised when his likes, who may be acting on instructions of his father, borne…

Nov

04

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Abuja court fixes Jan 30 for judgment in suit seeking Buhari’s removal from office

News, PoliticsCourt, Mohammadu Buhari, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday fixed January 30 next year for judgment in a suit seeking to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office and to also stop the conduct of the 2023 Presidential election. The Judge fixed the judgment date following the adoption of final addresses by President Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru. At Friday’s proceedings, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, a Presidential candidate in the 2019 election on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP),…