October 29, 2021

There is currently a huge unrest in Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, as men of the Nigerian army allegedly invaded the school arresting and assaulting the SUG president and other students and this has led to an uproar amongst the students.

The SUP (Students Union President , Sodiq Ridwan, popularly known as Reliable Surz, was arrested on today as he intervened in a matter involving students while they were protesting.

It was gathered that Reliable Surz and many other students were taken into custody by soldiers attached to Ilese Barracks.

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Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the President, African Development Bank (AfDB) says the bank is targeting to create 25 million new jobs by 2025.

Adesina said this when he delivered a lecture on ‘Social Media, National Security and Social Change: Bridging the Gap for Development in Africa’ in Lagos.

According to a statement issued by the bank on Friday in Abuja, Adesina underscored the enormous potential that Nigeria has for attracting global digital commerce and financial services.

Adesina added that the bank was also investing heavily in quality infrastructure to transform the backbone of Africa’s technological revolution.

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The Minister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtd), on Friday, arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on an assessment visit, accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, and service chiefs.

Speaking at the Command and Control Centre of the headquarters of Joint Task Force “Operation Hadin kai ” in Maiduguri, Magashi lauded the successes recorded so far in the fight against insurgency in the northeast.

‘I want to appreciate everyone in the theatre for a job well done.’

‘We are here to put heads together to see how to come out with fresh ideas to finish

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has been dragged to court in London by a firm at the centre of a $2-billion loan scandal that plunged his nation into financial crisis.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest which is owned by French-Lebanese billionaire Iskandar Safa, signed contracts with Mozambican state companies to supply tuna fishing and maritime security vessels.

To finance the deal, the government reportedly took out secret loans in 2013 and 2014 equivalent to 12 percent of the gross domestic product of one of the poorest countries in the world.

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The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has lamented that the government has abandoned education, stating that the Union has concluded plans to sponsor a bill at the National Assembly called ‘Bring Back Your Children’.

He also asserted that Nigerian leaders have killed education and then look for other countries to send their children to study, declaring that ASUU will mobilise Nigerians to march to the National Assembly to demand that the bill be passed for all elected public officers to send their children to Nigerian public schools.

Osodeke stated this in his speech …