Month: May 2025

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has elected a consultant psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, Prof. Chris Piwuna, as its next president. The decision was taken at the 23rd National Delegates Congress of the Union, which took place in Benin on Sunday. The election was contested between Piwuna and Prof. Adamu Babayo from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, according to verified sources familiar with the development. […]

Suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has stated that he is not desperate to return to office, revealing that his “spirit left the Government House long ago.” He made the remarks on Sunday during a Night of Tributes organizsd by the Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum in honour of the late elder statesman, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. This marked his first public speech since President Bola Tinubu suspended him from […]

The Oyo State Government,  has commenced the demolition of illegal structures and shanties at different locations in Ibadan, the state capital. The exercise began at St. Gabriel’s Secondary Commercial School, Sabo-Jembewon Area, Ibadan. Security personnel of Operation Burst, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and Western Security Network codenamed Amotekun Operation were on the ground to maintain law and order against the […]

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Akinloye Owolabi Olakulehin has suspended two family chiefs known as Mogaji, and removed their traditional beads over land grabbing. They are Mogaji Kukula, Kamorudeen Kolawole of Kukula family, Oke – Ofa Baba Isale in Ibadan North East Local Government, and Mogaji Samsudeen Bello of Ekerin Ajengbe family, Isale Osi in Ibadan South West Local Government of Oyo State. The suspension order was contained in a […]

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has petitioned the Accountant General of the Federation regarding a concerning trend of delays in the payment of its members’ monthly salaries. It will be recalled that SSANU began experiencing these delays following the migration of staff data to the Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System, GIFMIS platform. In its petition, SSANU called for urgent intervention to forestall a breakdown of […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released a statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), revealing that over 1.5 million of the 1.95 million candidates scored below 200/400.  In a post on its official X, JAMB highlighted that a total of 1,955,069 candidates sat for the examination, and of this number, a significant 1,534,654 candidates—representing 78.5%—scored below the 200 mark.   A breakdown of the […]