The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has commenced an indefinite strike following the failure of the federal government to implement its demands. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, the ASUP President, Anderson Ezeibe, said academic activities had been shut shown in all polytechnics and monotechnics across the country from 12am, April 6….
Nine people have been reportedly killed by bandits while an unspecified number were abducted along the Kaduna-Kachia road. The attack was said to have taken place at about 10:30pm on Monday, near Kasuwan Magani, in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state. According to sources in Kasuwan Magani, the vehicles were many and were heading…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all security and intelligence agencies to ensure the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of the attacks on both the Headquarters of the Imo state Police Command and the Correctional Centre in Owerri. Gunmen had in the early hours of Monday, attacked the two places causing mayhem. Inmates at the Correctional…
Members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) will on Tuesday embarked on indefinite strike to protest the non-implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. The federal government has approved financial autonomy of the third arm of government, however, state governments were to yet allow financial independence to judiciary at the state level. A…
The military has “recovered”five of the 39 abducted students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna have been “recovered.” The Kaduna state commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Kaduna. Aruwan said the five students were recovered by the military in the afternoon…
Gunmen have attack the Owerri Correctional Prison, Imo State, freeing over 1500 inmates.The incident according to the Punch newspaper, happened in the early hours of Monday. The gunmen also razed the Imo State Police Command headquarters located in Owerri and burnt almost all the vehicles parked at the command headquarters. The newspaper reports that the…
