February 2022

Students, under the umbrella of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), B Zone have threatened to block all federal roads in the zone.

The students noted that the need to block the roads became necessary due to the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

NANS had recently threatened to block all the federal roads in all the six states in the South-West geopolitical zone if the federal government and ASUU failed to resolve the differences between the two of them.

The union said that it will block all the roads if the difference is …

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled their country since last week Thursday’s  invasion by Russian forces, Africa Daily News, New York reports.

The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it making frantic efforts to deal with up to four million if the situation worsens.

The European Union’s crisis management commissioner however believes the figure could reach seven million if hostilities continue.

Poland

Some 196,000 Ukrainians have already fled over the Polish border, its frontier guards said Sunday. On Friday alone, 50,000 Ukrainians arrived.

While 90 percent of the refugees are being put up by friends or relations, nine …