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ASUU agrees to call off strike as FG increases payment to N70bn
Adelani Adepegba,AbujaThe Academic Staff Union of Universities has agreed to call off its eight-month strike which has grounded academic activities in the public universities since March.The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting...
Argentine prosecutors probe Maradona’s death
Argentine prosecutors were investigating Friday the circumstances surrounding the death of Diego Maradona and whether it could have involved medical negligence, judicial sources said.“There are already irregularities,” a close family member told AFP.Maradona’s lawyer,...
Iran accuses Israel of scientist assassination, vows revenge
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a “mercenary” for the US in carrying out the assassination of Tehran’s top nuclear scientist the day before.“Once again, the wicked hands...
Blatter, Platini probe shifts to fraud accusation
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini are now being investigated for “fraud” and “breach of trust” in Switzerland, a source with access to the probe said on Friday.The former power...
22 killed as herdsmen, farmers clash in Chad
At least 22 people have been killed in southern Chad in the latest instance of deadly ethnic violence between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers, the communications minister said Friday.A curfew was imposed in the...
German court convicts IPOB members for attacking Ekweremadu
Alexander Okere with agency reportA German court has convicted four members of the Indigenous People of Biafra for attacking a former deputy senate president, Mr Ike Ekweremadu.The IPOB had been prosecuted for assaulting the...
There’s trouble if traditional rulers support child marriage — Bagudu
•Saraki, Salihu, others seek improvements in maternal, child healthTobi Aworinde, Jesusegun Alagbe and Tope OmogbolagunFounder of Medicaid Cancer Foundation and wife of Kebbi State Governor, Dr Zainab Bagudu, has said the support of child...
Law students back ASUU, oppose rivals’ suit against strike
Ade Adesomoju, AbujaSome leaders of the Law Students Society of Nigeria, who are in support of the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, have told the Federal High Court...
APC crisis: Sacked Oshiomhole-led NWC drags party, INEC to court
asks court to fire Buni caretaker committeeseeks nullification of NEC meeting chaired by BuhariJohn Alechenu and Tunde AjajaA former National Vice Chairman and ex-acting chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta, has asked...
Maina: Court grants bail to Ndume
Ade Adesomoju, AbujaThe Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, who had been detained in prison since Monday over his suretyship for Abdulrasheed Maina believed...
