Niger’s coup leaders accused the head of the United Nations on Friday of obstructing their participation in the body’s General Assembly, saying it was “likely to undermine any effort to end the crisis in our country”. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres addressing the 2023 UNGA. Twitter/@antoniogutteres Rebel elite soldiers overthrew …
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FG Raises Salaries of Federal Tertiary Institutions’ Lecturers
It wasn’t what we negotiated, says ASUU
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the implementation of 35 per cent and 23 per cent of salary increment for staff of all federal tertiary institutions. This is as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the government’s gesture as a far cry from what the university lecturers …
Read More »DuckDuckGo says market share constrained by rival Google’s huge wallet
The CEO of internet search engine company DuckDuckGo testified on Thursday that his company struggled to grow its market share because Google was paying key companies billions of dollars to keep its search engine as the default on computers or mobile devices. THE TAKE: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, who was …
Read More »Counting the cost of contagion fears from Africa coups
When Gabon’s General Brice Oligui Nguema ousted his distant cousin last month, he became the eighth military leader who has taken power by force in Africa since 2020. But one aspect about the country was different: it had sold a sizeable amount of bonds on international capital markets, and had …
Read More »No leader has spoken for Africa like Tinubu did at UNGA, says Agbakoba
Olisa Agbakoba, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says no African leader has spoken for the continent the way President Bola Tinubu did at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Tinubu had on Wednesday addressed leaders at the 78th session of UNGA, during which he said …
Read More »U.S. Court orders Chicago State University release Tinubu’s academic records
Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S District Court, Northern District of Illinois, has ordered the Chicago State University to release the academic records of President Bola Tinubu. Gilbert, a US magistrate judge, gave the ruling on Tuesday, ordering CSU to produce “all relevant and non-privileged documents” to Abubakar Atiku, the …
Read More »Africa Does Not Wish to Replace Old Shackles With New Ones, Says Tinubu In First UNGA Address
President Bola Tinubu gave his inaugural address at the United Nations General Assembly in the small hours of Wednesday, in which he championed the need for Africa to surmount foreign exploitation to attain prosperity through democratic ideals. “As for Africa, we seek to be neither appendage nor patron. We do …
Read More »Again, Nigeria’s power grid collapses, electricity supply drops to 42.7MW
Nigeria’s national grid collapsed once more on Tuesday when power generation crashed from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts at midnight to an alarming low of 42.7MW by midday. Subsequently, at noon, only the Delta Power plant was operational on the grid, contributing 41MW, while Afam generated 1.7MW. The grid failure …
Read More »Peter Obi Files 51 Grounds Of Appeal Against PEPC Judgment At Supreme Court
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mister Peter Obi, has filed 51 grounds of appeal before the Supreme Court seeking the nullification of Judgment of the Presidential Election Petition court and the election of President Bola Tinubu. In his notice of appeal, Obi said the Presidential Election Petitions Court …
Read More »My administration will address challenges facing judiciary -Otu
The Governor of Cross River State, Senator (Prince) Bassey Edet Otu has reiterated the commitment of his administration towards tackling the challenges confronting the Judiciary in the state.Governor Otu stated this at the occasion organized by members of the judiciary to mark official opening of the 2023/2024 Legal Year.The new …
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