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The Ondo State Government has approved that serving primary school teachers can henceforth reach the status of Permanent Secretaries like other civil servants. The Chairman, Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board, Mr Victor Olabimtan, disclosed this during his interactive meeting with the headteachers across the three senatorial districts of the state in Akure, the state capital. Olabimtan, who distributed promotion letters to 2,111 teachers, out of which about 85 of them were upgraded to level-16…

The former attorney for musician Naira Marley has been sentenced to prison. The lawyer, identified as Taiwo Oreagba, was given a two-year prison sentence for accepting an N4 million bribe by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Friday. After a two-year trial, Justice Taiwo found Oreagba guilty. Oreagba previously defended “Am I a Yahoo boy?” singer Naira Marley in his ongoing alleged internet crime-related prosecution. The judge observed that Oreagba…

The Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission has issued a notice of indefinite strike to the management of the commission over a breach of the agreement. The union noted that the strike will commence with effect from Monday, August 29, 2022. Chairman of the Joint Service Union, PSC chapter, Mr Adoyi Adoyi, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday. The notice is coming amidst disagreement between workers of the commission,…

The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has called on the Federal Government to, without further delay, register and recognise it as an academic staff union in the university system in Nigeria. This, the union said, had become necessary as it had met all conditions required for it to be so registered. The National Coordinator, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, who stated this in a chat with Vanguard yesterday, opined that there was no condition yet to be…

  Lawal was kidnapped by gunmen who stormed his residence on Monday night and whisked him away to an unknown destination. Yakubu Lawal, the abducted Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, has been freed. He regained freedom after five days in captivity. Lawal was kidnapped by gunmen who stormed his residence on Monday night and whisked him away to an unknown destination. The incident occurred in the Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of…

Sierra Leone Police Declare Late Dagrin Wanted Sierra Leone Police have somehow declared late Nigerian super star Dagrin wanted in connection with recent riots in that country

99.9% of Nigerians do not know their rights – including myself writing this Article, I won’t lie! This morning, I saw this video on Instagram and I decided to share it with you all so you can learn one or two things that can help you if you ever find yourself in the hand of EFCC.       I sincerely learned a lot watching this video because the Lawyer actually spits some facts that…

Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, has invited the striking electricity workers for an emergency meeting. The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) had earlier directed its members to go on strike, citing a contravention of workers’ conditions and default on the payment of entitlements by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). In response, TCN had said it was working with relevant parties to avert TCN said in a statement. “In the meantime,…

Members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum are currently meeting at the State House Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.   The governors are meeting over the state of the nation’s economy, insecurity, and healthcare, among other issues. According to a statement signed on Tuesday by the Forum’s Director of Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, the state of Nigeria’s economy and security ‪will be top-of-agenda at the meeting. The meeting comes weeks…

The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt.     Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission. “The meet with the FG’s team was headed by Professor Nimi Briggs and it started by 12:00pm and ended by 3:00pm….

Billionaire business mogul, Elon Musk has said that he was only joking when he tweeted his intention to buy Premier League giants, Manchester United. Musk, who, while in the midst of a political ideology discussion on Twitter, announced his intention to buy the struggling club, said he was not ready to acquire any sports team now. He had tweeted, “Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome”. Musk is worth around $260 billion, meaning that he…

15 new cases of Monkeypox disease have been recorded in seven days between August 1 and 7, in 10 states in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed. The affected states and the number of cases they recorded were listed as follows; Imo (three), Federal Capital Territory (two), Ondo (two), Rivers (two), Abia (one), Anambra (one), Ebonyi (one), Edo (one), Ogun (one) and Nasarawa (one). Since the beginning of the year,…

WAHALA!! EFCC Arrested Big Wiz, 23 Others For Alleged Internet Fraud In Lagos Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 25 suspected internet fraudsters in some parts of Lagos State. The suspects are: Oyewole Damilola, Ovin Adekunle, Ovin Nicholas, Ridwan Iyiola, Aregbesola Tobiloba, Oladosu Saheed, Oseni Omotara, Abel Durotimi, Oyeneye Rilwan Adetola, Omoregbe Destiny Nosa, Evbonaye Olaleye, Adeyemo Abiola, Temitope Ajetonmobi, Dare-Ilori Oreoluwa David, Adekanye Ayodeji…

DAILY POST learnt that a bus conveying 15 of the RCCG members had engaged in excessive speed, defying passengers’ call for caution. It was gathered that the bus marked APP 297 YC, suddenly had a burst tyre, lost control and somersaulted. The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps confirmed that the accident occurred at Day Waterman College axis of the Abeokuta–Kobape–Siun road around 5:22pm. Also, the spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps…

ASUU said that the federal government is the employer of the universities’ lecturers and so it has no business with the parents. Parents have been told to beg the federal government to fulfil the promises it had with The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU said this in reaction to a statement by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, when he said that parents should beg ASUU to call off the strike….

Farounbi who is a veteran broadcast journalist also said he was not surprised that this is happening because Nigerians were warned during the 2014/2015 presidential campaign about President Buhari’s past. Yemi Farounbi, a former Nigerian Ambassador to the Philippines, made some stunning claims about Nigeria’s number one man. Farounbi claims that President Muhammadu Buhari is God’s punishment for Nigeria. Farounbi who is a veteran broadcast journalist also said he was not surprised that this is…

62-year-old man from Bihar, India has been getting a lot of attention in his home country after it was revealed that he has not taken a bath in over two decades.   Dharamdev Ram is famous in his home village of Baikunthpur. Everybody knows that he hasn’t taken a bath or even a quick shower in 22 years, but nobody mocks him for it, on the contrary, he gets a lot of respect for his…

ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, Asks Nigerians To Vote Out APC (Video). 2023: ASUU President, asks Nigerians to vote out ruling APC.  

Maharaj ji said that the ministers and others on the government’s negotiation team with ASUU leaders were not doing enough. President Muhammadu Buhari has been told to sack Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment and Mallam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, including all those involved in the negotiation team with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over non-performance. The Founder, One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj ji made the call on Friday….

Nigerians called on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to embark on a national strike for three days. Concerned Nigerians have called for a 3-day nationwide strike to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This is as the government stopped the payment of salaries to members of ASUU, the university lecturers’ union since February. A civil rights group, Workers and Youth Solidarity…

The World Health Organisation has said that 160 million Nigerians are at risk of yellow fever. The WHO said with Nigeria’s population of about 200 million, the figure makes up around 25 percent of all the people at risk in Africa. Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The “yellow” in the name refers to the jaundice that affects some patients. Symptoms of yellow fever include fever, headache, jaundice, muscle…

The President has dropped a video tweet in his official twitter handle on Tuesday 9th of August, emphasising on the need for Nigeria to be united despite the struggles. President Muhammadu Buhari: “Our main objective is the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we are human beings, we have our weaknesses. I assure you that the patriotism in us is hard earned, we have gone through all the troubles from the sixth of January 1966 till date,…

Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to legal filings published on Tuesday, amid a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal. The Tesla boss sold some 7.9 million shares between August 5 and 9, according to filings published on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website. “In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don’t come through, it…

Police officers in Oyo state have arrested a 40-year-old herb seller for allegedly killing a man in order to avoid repaying a loan. The victim has been identified as a septuagenarian, Rufus Olayinwola. Parading the suspect to newsmen on Monday, August 8, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Adewale Osifeso, said the suspect killed the septuagenarian on June 19 in Ibadan in order not to pay back the money the deceased loaned to…

157 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control across 26 states in the country. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report for week 30. Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic infectious disease transmitted from animals to humans that occur sporadically, primarily in remote villages of Central and West Africa near tropical rainforests. Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa where the disease is endemic. The…

NAPTAN spoke through its National President, Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, in a chat with Vanguard on Sunday. Parents in Nigeria have replied the Minister of State for Labour, Mr Festus Keyamo(SAN). The parents under the platform of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN said they will not beg the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off their strike. According to the parents, the only condition they will accept to beg parents is if…