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The Senate, on Wednesday, approved 70 years as retirement age of university professors as it passed the bill for an Act to harmonise the retirement age of academic staff of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. With this development, the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), might be called off  [ Read More ]

Dear Compatriots, 1. This is the second time in two weeks I will address you on the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector. In the last seven days, the nation has witnessed a disruption of economic activities. Although, the economic imperatives for the policy have been well articulated by government, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)  [ Read More ]

Source Daily Trust When President Goodluck Jonathan decided to remove the subsidy on petrol said to benefit a cabal and not going to the poor who are meant to benefit from it, on January 1, he may not have envisaged the magnitude of protests that is still raging. After all, this is Nigeria, a country  [ Read More ]

Source: Vanguard: ABUJA—PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, submitted to the Senate for approval name of his former Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Affairs and wife of late Dim Odimegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, as an ambassadorial nominee. President Jonathan in a letter to Senate President, David Mark, requested that in line with section 171(1) C,  [ Read More ]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has cancelled the result of the senatorial election in Anambra Central Senatorial District. It said a rerun would be fixed for a date to be announced soon. The decision was announced at a press conference in Awka by the newly appointed Returning Officer for Anambra Central, Prof. Charles Esinone. The  [ Read More ]

Source:Reuters An explosion rocked the local offices of Nigeria’s electoral commission in the central town of Suleja on Friday, hours ahead of parliamentary polls, in what one emergency official said appeared to have been a bomb blast. Security sources said up to eight people may have been killed and a dozen injured in the explosion  [ Read More ]

Nigeria’s electoral commission (INEC) has postponed nationwide parliamentary polls for a second time, a day after they were put off due to logistical problems. Officials said on Sunday the elections that had been postponed to Monday after voting materials failed to arrive on time will now take place on April 9 in Africa’s most populous  [ Read More ]

The ill health of Nigeria’s president sparked fears of a military coup and caused screaming matches over who was in charge of the country, according to secret US diplomatic cables. Umaru Yar’Adua, who was terminally ill, left the country in November 2009 for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. A US memo marked secret and dated  [ Read More ]

Shell ‘accessed’ Nigeria ministries: cable Source:(AFP) LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell had infiltrated key Nigerian ministries, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich nation, the Guardian said, citing U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The oil giant’s top executive in Nigeria, Ann Pickard, told U.S. diplomats in Abuja in October 2009  [ Read More ]

A team of students from the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) will today leave for the United States ahead of two-day Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) World Cup, slated for next Monday and Tuesday. The university emerged as Nigeria’s representative for the intellectual and soccer competition after it defeated 35 other tertiary institutions that  [ Read More ]