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    The management of the University of Ibadan on Thursday ordered students to vacate its halls of residence following the extension of the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union if Universities. The Registrar of the UI, Mrs Olubunmi Faluyi, announced the order to vacate the hostels ...

  Some unknown gunmen on Wednesday ambushed officers of the Imo State correctional center, and killed two of them. Society gazette reports that the incident happened this morning at Okigwe town, around the Umulolo axis of the state. It was learnt that those injured have been taken to the hospital. ...

    Embattled Police Chief, Abba Kyari has claimed that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has been assisting drug dealers to bring in Cocaine into Nigeria. This newspaper earlier reported that Kyari and four other police officers under the IRT were arrested in February for attempting to bribe ...

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Governing Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), following the expiration of the tenure of the former Board. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the board has ...

  Adunni Ade, a practicing lawyer, has recounted how she was beaten and bruised after boarding a bus filled with robbers at GB Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State, Naija News reports According to Adunni, who expressed gratitude for surviving the ordeal, the incident happened last Thursday. Amongst the things that were ...

  The Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government summoned an emergency stakeholders meeting in the power sector over the low electricity generation. Naija News reports that this is coming after the latest collapse of the collapse of the National power grid on Monday morning. Recall that no fewer than eight states including ...

  Nigeria’s largest Opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is set to resolve all the major crisis currently rocking the Party. It was learnt that the party’s bigwigs held a major meeting on Monday night in Abuja to discuss and resolve serious issues within its ranks. It can be ...

  The Nigeria Police on Monday denied reports that some officers were planning to embark on a strike with effect from March 26. The police, through its acting spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, described such reports as “fake and mischievous” attempt to “bring the Force to disrepute, misinform the general public and ...

    Presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, Doyin Okupe, has advised popular Nigerian actress, Kemi Afolabi not to give up on her incurable ailment, Lupus. Okupe in an open letter said despite Lupus not being curable, it is not true that the actress has limited years to live. ...

  The National Association of Nigeria Students has tasked the Oyo State Police Command to find the policeman who allegedly shot a student of the Business Administration Department at Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa, Samuel Akinsuyi. The Coordinator of NANS in South-West, Olatunji Adegboye, said Akinsuyi was coming to Ibadan from ...