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2020 UTME: Reactions Trail Suspension Of NIN Requirement

January 11, 2020 1:25 pm

Some candidates from Badagry who were preparing for the forthcoming 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) expressed joy on Saturday as JAMB suspended the National Identification Number ( NIN) registration.

They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews that it was a welcome development.

Mr Felix Godonu, a parent said that the suspension was prompt and a welcome development.

“This will save the time during which students queue for the collection of NIN which has also given room for extortion from the students.

“The stress that

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Buhari Reverses Suspension Of REA MD, Ogunbiyi

January 7, 2020 1:36 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has reversed the suspension of the Managing Director of Rural Electricity Agency (REA) Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi.

THISDAY recalls that the Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman on Dec. 31st ordered the suspension of the Managing Director of Rural Electrification, Ms Damilola Ogunbiyi.

Ogunbiyi was suspended over alleged malpractices on December 31.

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The federal government, however, accepted her resignation to enable her take up her new role in the United Nations.

The presidency Twitter account posted, “President Buhari has directed that the suspension of Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi from …

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ASUP Condemns Suspension Of Members In Bida poly

November 23, 2019 1:38 pm

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has condemned the suspension of 10 members of the union by the management of Federal Polytechnic, Bida.

Mr Usman Dutse, ASUP National President in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos, said that union officials should not be victimised unnecessarily.Dutse said the union officials were queried without any investigation and suspended.“We are not going to tolerate that kind of victimisation because it has become the culture of our institutions to sack union officials anytime they kick against any doubtful activities of the management,” he said.

NAN reports that

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Falana Calls for Suspension of Morocco From AU

November 18, 2019 7:57 am

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, has called for the suspension of Morocco from the African Union over the alleged illegal occupation of parts of the territory of Western Sahara.

The human rights lawyer made the call to African leaders at the recently concluded international conference on Western Sahara in Paris, capital of France.

Falana, who is also the legal adviser of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic for Africa, argued that the enlistment of Morocco to the AU in January 2017, while occupying Western Sahara, violated some provisions of the constitutive act of …

Suspension Of Oshiomhole, Obaseki, Unknown To SS APC

November 16, 2019 3:09 am

Peace appears to be in the horizon for the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the South-south zonal chapter of the party has declared that the purported suspension of some members of the party were not binding on them.

National Vice Chairman South-south of the APC, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, who commented on the crisis yesterday while speaking to journalists said as far as the zone was concerned, no member of the APC had been suspended.

According to Eta, the purported suspension of some big time politician and others by the warring factions were unconstitutional, null, void, …

Suspension: APC Stuck Over Amosun, Okorocha, Others

October 12, 2019 4:04 am

The All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be in a fix over the membership status of the immediate past governors of Ogun and Imo states, Ibikunle Amosun and Owelle Rochas Okorocha respectively and two others, seven months after their suspension by the National Working Committee (NWC).

The national leadership of the party, had on March 1, few days after President Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner of the 2019 presidential election, clamped an indefinite suspension on the elected and appointed officers of the party, leveling allegations of anti-party activities against them.

The NWC had while announcing the suspension order, disclosed further …

Okorocha, Okechukwu react to suspension over disloyalty

March 2, 2019 12:13 am

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has criticised his suspension and moves to expel him, his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani and the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu by the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee (NWC), led by its National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, saying Oshiomhole was determined from the onset to destroy APC by throwing caution to the winds and playing 2023 politics.

Okechukwu saw his suspension as victory for bigotry, while the Ogun State chapter of the party described the suspension of Amosun as …

American Bar Association condemns Onnoghen’s suspension

February 24, 2019 3:02 am

American Bar Association (ABA) saturday said the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari undermined the rule of law in Nigeria.