February 4, 2022

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that it would soon embark on an indefinite strike to press home their demands one month after it suspended a nine-month-old strike.

Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chiarman of the University of Jos chapter of the Union, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the union suspended a nine-month-old industrial action in December 2020.

Recall that ASUU embarked on an earlier strike over the failure of Federal Government to address all the issues raised in the 2009 agreement it entered with the union.

Maigoro, …

Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020 has published shocking body-cam video which showed the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man on Thursday.

According to information gathered from the police, Amir Locke was shot by officers who were executing a search warrant on the apartment he was in after Locke pulled a gun from beneath a blanket.

The total time between the officers’ entrance and the shots fired was less than ten seconds.

Locke was pronounced dead at hospital.

In a statement that was released by the family’s attorneys on Thursday, …

In a bid to address long-running cash shortages, Liberia has approved a scheme to print new banknotes in a move which has been with mixed feelings in the West African nation.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the central bank will now be empowered to print notes worth 48.7 billion Liberian dollars ($281m, 235m euros) and to withdraw old ones from circulation.

People regularly complain of the difficulty of getting cash in Liberia, in shortages the central bank has said are due to high demand, few ATMs, and the circulation of foreign currency.

Liberia has two legal currencies namely; …