The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed July 26 and 27 for a nationwide protest in solidarity with the the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Public universities had been closed for five months following the ongoing strike by the university lecturers. The strike bothers on the failure of the federal government to honour an…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has elected Yakubu Maikyau, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as its president. Announcing the result of the election, the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), said Maikyau polled a total of 22,342 to Joe Gazama, (SAN) who polled 10,842 votes while Jonathan Taidi, scored 1,373 votes. A…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ademola Adeleke, has emerged winner of the Osun governorship election which held Saturday. The result of the election was announced on Sunday morning by the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Toyin Ogundipe. According to Ogundipe, Adeleke polled 403, 371 votes to defeat incumbent Governor Gboyega…
