The Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah, says the institution recently dismissed two academic staff members over allegations bordering on sexual misconduct. PUNCH on Monday reported that the institution had designed a communication channel for students to report cases of sexual harassment and other unethical acts by lecturers. The issue of sexual harassment has been recurring in Nigerian institutions with a survey conducted in 2018 by the World Bank Group’s Women revealing that 70 per cent of female graduates from tertiary institutions in Nigeria were sexually harassed in school. According to the report, the main perpetrators are classmates and…
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has threatened David Adeleke, also known as Davido and Olamilekan Taiwo, better known as Logos Olori, over a controversial music video ‘Jaiye Lo’. Davido, on Friday, promoted ‘Jaye Lo’, a new music video by one of his artistes, Logos Olori, on his Twitter handle. The video generated controversy because of the scene and how it was portrayed. Many called out the singer and requested that the music video be pulled down. Davido had to bow to pressure and pulled down the video on all his social media platforms. MURIC, in a statement issued by its…
After the National Crime Agency conducted a financial investigation, a former Nigerian politician and his criminal associates were given one of the highest confiscation orders ever issued in the UK: they must repay more than £130 million. In February 2012, James Ibori, a former governor of Delta State in Nigeria, received a 13-year sentence after pleading guilty to a number of offences connected to a plot to steal up to £50 million from Nigerian states. His UK based solicitor, Badresh Babulal Gohil, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010 after being convicted of fraud and money…
Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local…
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) announced plans for car fuel conversion in all of its service centres by the end of 2023 on Monday. The Head, Corporate Communications, at Innoson Group, Cornel Osigwe, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha on Monday, said IVM was currently converting only vehicles produced by the company from fuel to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), to suit the current economic situation occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy. Osigwe said CNG vehicles are more durable, easier to maintain than petrol vehicles and the gas is cheaper…
Eagles’ Captain, Ahmed Musa’s Filling Station Sells Petrol at N58 Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, has again demonstrated his love for humanity and won the hearts of many Nigerians by announcing a reduction in the pump price of petrol at his fuel station located in Kano. Recall that Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) had last week announced an increase of the petrol pump price to N617 per litre. But, the Kano Pillars striker on Monday crashed the pump price to N580 per litre through an announcement on his verified Twitter page. He wrote: “Fuel ⛽️ #580 @MYCA -7 Filling…
Oil marketers are clamoring that market indicators should determine the price movement of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as petrol, even if it means the price could potentially reach N700. This comes after a 165 per cent increase in petrol prices to N500 following President Bola Tinubu’s announcement regarding the removal of subsidy for the product. Oil marketers have insisted that the current prices of petrol in the country were not a true reflection of the market. They were projecting a further price review this month, less than two months after the price of petrol was hiked from N189…
In a major shift since the takeover of the social media platform by owner Elon Musk, Twitter has officially rebranded to “X” changing its iconic bird logo on Monday. The website Twitter.com remained live and branding on the app version of the platform did not appear to change as of early Monday morning. Twitter’s world-renowned bird logo was transformed into an X, however. Early Sunday, Musk posted a short video of a flickering “X.” Asked if the logo would change in a Twitter Spaces audio chat, he said “yes,” telling an unknown speaker: “We’re cutting the Twitter logo…
Vice President Kashim Shettima departed Abuja, yesterday, To represent President Bola Tinubu at two important international summits in Rome, Italy, and St. Petersburg, Russia, left Abuja yesterday. Shettima will attend the first Stocktaking Moment (STM) Summit in Rome with other world leaders. The summit is taking place from now through Wednesday, and its topic is “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet, and Prosperity. During the summit, the Vice President will chair a high-level session, with the theme, ‘Innovative Financing for Food System Transformation: the Case of Nigeria’, and a side event on ‘Scaling up Multi Stakeholders’ Collaboration and Investment in…
Nengi, a former Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) contestant, has opened up on her social media accounts on why she won’t participate in the All-Stars season. The reality TV actress addressed speculations that she was a contestant in the current season of BBNaija while speaking in a live video about why she denied the invitation. She debunked the reports about her presence in the show, stating that she’s currently in Qatar for business. She shared a video of herself chilling in Qatar and warned people to stop accusing her falsely about being on a show. Watch the video below: I’m…
After three years, Lagos State Government on Sunday confirmed that it has prepared the bodies of 103 #EndSARS protest victims for mass burial. The permanent secretary in the ministry of health Olusegun Ogboye in a statement, however, stated that none of the bodies were retrieved from the Lekki tollgate. “For the records, the Lagos State Environmental Health Unit picked up bodies in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence and community clashes at Fagba, Ketu, Ikorodu, Orile, Ajegunle, Abule-Egba, Ikeja, Ojota, Ekoro, Ogba, Isolo and Ajah areas of Lagos state,” Ogboye said. “There was also a jailbreak at Ikoyi Prison. The…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has released the final lists of successful candidates for the 2023 recruitment exercise for Narcotic Officer and Narcotic Assistant cadres. A statement released on Sunday by the agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said successful candidates for cadet, trainees are to report at the NDLEA Academy in Jos and NSCDC College of Peace and Disaster Management in Katsina states respectively. The statement partly read, “The under-listed successful candidates are therefore to report for Narcotic Officers Basic (Cadet) training at the NDLEA Academy, Kotton Rikus, Jos Plateau State, while the Narcotic Agent/Assistant (Trainees) will report for their…