controversy

COVID-19: What If Chinese Doctors Assist Nigeria?

April 6, 2020 6:28 am

Controversy is raging over the announcement by Nigeria’s minister of health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire that an 18-man team of Chinese doctors and nurses will arrive the country to assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to the technical team, items such as personal protection equipment (PPE) and ventilators are also expected to arrive from China as assistance to Nigerian government in collaboration with Chinese community living and working in Nigeria.

In as much that such gesture is not new between countries during emergencies, there are already some apprehensions in some quarters against the gesture largely due to …

Buhari, ASUU Meet In Aso Rock Amid IPPIS Controversy

January 10, 2020 1:16 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The meeting was held behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Disclosing this in a tweet, Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi wrote: “ASUU meeting with the President this afternoon. Ministers of Education and Finance in attendance. #AsoVillaToday.”

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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed were also part of the dignitaries in the meeting.

The meeting is believed to be centered around the Integrated …

Hijab Controversy: Sultan Cautions Muslims In South West

November 17, 2019 11:30 am

Sultan of Sokoto and Present-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has enjoined Muslims in the six states in the South West of Nigeria not to take the law into their hands as they pursue the use of hijabs by Muslim female students in primary and secondary schools in the zone.

He disclosed this in his address during the formal opening session of the fourth general assembly of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN), with the tagline: “Muslim Unity and Contemporary Political Challenges in Nigeria,” held at the conference hall, University of

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Controversy Trails $1bn Ogoni Cleanup Project

November 14, 2019 1:02 pm

A leading international advocacy organisation on environment, Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth), has faulted the ongoing $1 billion Ogoni cleanup exercise in the Niger Delta. It said the lack on seriousness on the part of the government is a major threat to its completion.

Executive director of the organisation, Godwin Uyi Ojo, while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, said the agency of government handling the project, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), is yet to define clear parameters on how it intends to execute the project, despite the availability of over $100 million at its disposal.

Mr. Ojo

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NOUN apologises to Obasanjo over salary controversy

March 21, 2019 10:08 pm

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has tendered an unreserved apology to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, over a news report that he was taking on the payroll of the university as a facilitator.

The university further made it clear that the elder statesman had accepted to be rendering free services to the university in the same capacity.

The university made this known on Thursday in Abuja, through a statement signed by Mr Ibrahim Sheme, its Director of Media and Publicity.

The university said it was reacting to a story in a national newspaper on Wednesday that Obasanjo would

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