Politics

As the face-off between the federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues, the Students’ Wing of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has lambasted the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu calling on him to resign with immediate effect over his inability to end the current strike.

The northern students described the action of the minister during his meeting with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) earlier in the week as a gross show of ‘unconscionable immorality, insensitivity and abhorrent to the collective sensibilities of the students and their parents.’

Speaking at a …

Former Senate President and a two-term governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari has grossly failed the people of Northern Nigeria and the country in general.

Saraki who had last declared his ambition to succeed President Buhari is currently going on consultations around the country. On Thursday, his Presidential Campaigns train visited Kano, and speaking to Party stalwarts said that President Buhari promised to give Nigerians power but the country was now worse off in energy supply.

‘The President said he will provide effective security of lives and properties, today, Nigerians cannot even travel to …

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has asserted that Nigeria is on the precipice and would collapse if nothing drastic is done to save it.

Jega made this assertion on Wednesday in Abuja at the 2022 Workers’ Political Conference organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress.

He described the 2023 general elections as critical for Nigeria’s unity and an epochal moment which could pull Nigeria from the precipice.

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‘While Nigeria may not have totally collapsed, it is in the process of …

Nigerian Women on Wednesday thronged the National Assembly in their numbers to express their disdain over the rejection of women-related bills at the plenary session on Tuesday which has continued to generate a lot of reactions.

Africa Daily News, New York had on Tuesday reported that a number of women friendly bills did not make it through on the floor of the Nigerian National assembly on Tuesday.

For example, a bill seeking to give at least ten slots to women as ministers and commissioners in the federal and state governments failed at the upper legislative chamber.

No fewer than 88 …

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday asserted that Nigeria needs to increase its revenues in order to address complaints over the sharing formula of federation proceeds.

The Governor made this comment while speaking at the State Government House in Benin-City during a courtesy visit of the Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Muheeba Dankaka.

‘The issue for us in Nigeria should be how to bake a bigger cake, because the cake we are trying to share has become too small,’ the Governor said.

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