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The looming strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been shelved as the union and federal government have reached an agreement.

In a meeting brokered by the Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, the ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke and the representatives of government, Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and Minister of Education (State), Emeka Nwajuiba reached the agreement on Thursday.

It would be recalled that the lawmakers had decided to intervene on the matter following a motion moved on Tuesday by Julius Ihonvbere.

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The Speaker …

As Nigeria joins the world to world commemorate the 2021 World Toilet Day, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) office in Nigeria on Thursday revealed that data available to it indicates that no fewer than 46 million Nigerians lack access to toilets which is key to ending open defecation thereby boosting health and total well-being.

As a result of this anomaly, many people in the affected communities often end up with different preventable ailments which often lead to death.

The UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office Dr Clement Adams, made this revealation in his presentation at a one-day media dialogue …

The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday, raised the alarm that many of the corps members in the country are drug addicts.

Its Ondo state Coordinator, Mrs Victoria Ani raised the alarm at the 2021 Corps employers workshop in Akure, the Ondo state capital.

The workshop’s theme was ‘Optimising the NYSC/ Corps employers Partnership for National Development in the context of the New Normal.

Ani expressed worries over the rate at which Corps members were involved in drug abuse in the country.

Stakeholders who attended the workshop while speaking complained that many of the corps members deployed in …

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday asserted that trying to put a stop to the escalating population explosion in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) may not be possible as it is a function of urbanisation.

Minister of the FCT, Mallam Mohammed Musa Bello made this assertion while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Saturday.

The FCT Minister said the administration was making efforts to manage the situation even though he said stoping the population in the FCT from increasing was not an option because of the nature of the city and the purpose …

Chairman of the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Limited, (IVM), Mr. Innocent Chukwuma has expressed optimism that the company would take over the Africa market in the nearest future.

He made the declaration during a parley with journalists in Nnewi, Anambra State.

Chukwuma said the company was looking ahead to being a producer of vehicles for use in the African continent as a whole, a development he said would reduce pressure on the country’s foreign exchange (forex) demand.

He said he had expanded his scope of production to a wide range of vehicles which include SUVs, wagons, commuter buses, among others.…

The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige has said that he has not been officially informed that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) wants to embark on strike.

He however assured that the Federal Government would not allow the union embark on the strike as threatened.

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Ngige said this on Tuesday during an interview on Politics Today, a program by Channels TV.

‘The strike will not happen. For one, I know that the fund to pay with is there and the Ministry of Education has assured me

An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has waded into the controversy surrounding the recent allegation of Christianisation levelled against Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The group related what it knows about the Vice President and insists on truth, fairness and objectivity.

MURIC’s opinion was expressed in a press statement issued by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Wednesday, 17th November 2021.

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The group said, ‘A certain document alleging Christianisation on the part of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was circulated last week and we decided to investigate. This

Former President Goodluck Jonathan said he convened the 2014 National Conference with the intention to create an environment for Nigerians to address issues pushing citizens towards divisive politics and sowing the seeds of discord.

Jonathan stated this in his remarks at the “2nd Igbo Nsukka Zik Annual Merit Award”, in memory of the first Nigerian President, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, on Tuesday in Abuja.

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The event was organised by Igbo Nsukka United Front.

At the event, Jonathan was honoured with “the Zik’s Merit Award”.

He said the inability to manage Nigeria’s diversity was …

Clashes erupted between stranded refugees and Polish border guards at the Polish-Belarusian border on Tuesday as the refugee crisis appears to have worsened.

According to a statement credited to Poland’s Ministry of National Defence (MOD), refugees at the Kuznica border crossing trying to cross into Poland reportedly threw stones at Polish guards, who responded by using water cannon and tear gas.

The MOD said: ‘The migrants attacked our soldiers and guards with stones and are trying to force the fence to get to the Polish territory.

‘Our forces used tear gas to thwart the aggression of migrants.’

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Mexican authorities have nabbed the wife of a powerful drug-trafficking cartel lord, the country’s defense ministry announced on Tuesday.

The ministry described Monday’s capture of Rosalinda Gonzalez, wife of Jalisco New Generation leader Nemesio Oseguera, as ‘a signficant blow to the financial structure of the criminal organization in Jalisco state.’

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Oseguera is one of the people most wanted by both Mexico as well as the United States.

Gonzalez, who was captured in the central Jalisco state, is believed to be the financial operator of the cartel, one of the most powerful and violent …

No fewer than eleven civilians have been killed in the northwestern Central African Republic following series of bitter fighting between rebels and soldiers, despite a ceasefire in the country, the local prefect disclosed on Tuesday.

According to a prefect of Ouham-Pende who spoke to reporters, rebels ‘infiltrated the weekly market at around 10 am on Sunday’ near Mann, a town about 600 kilometres (370 miles) northwest of Bangui, Dieudonne Yougaina.

‘Central African forces intervened… and the exchange of fire left 11 civilians dead, nine men and two women, as well as eight wounded,’ he disclosed.

Yougaina accused elements of the …