Primary School Pupils Behead Teacher Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Primary School Pupils Behead Teacher Six teenagers went on trial in Paris on Monday for their role in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France.School The suspects arrived holding their coats over their faces at the closed-doors juvenile court, a judicial source told AFP. The 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His attacker, 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov, was shot dead at the scene…
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How Ganduje Employed Secondary School Students, Others With Forged Certificates Into Civil Service The Kano State government has accused the immediate past administration of Abdullahi Ganduje of employing unqualified persons including those who forged their certificates and academic results into the state civil service. Recall that the Governor Abba Yusuf-led government shortly after his inauguration in May directed the suspension of the salaries of some civil servants in the state. This led to the establishment of a committee to screen and verify employments conducted by the immediate past administration. Giving an update on the situation on Friday, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi,…
BREAKING: President Tinubu Makes Massive New Appointments This was following the recently concluded selection process by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation – an exercise which also raised controversies in some quarters. According to a release by Ajuri Ngelale, the president presumed that the new Permanent Secretaries emerged at the top of qualified candidates after a “diligent assessment process” and would deploy their expertise and competence in the execution of the Renewed Hope mandate. The statement said, “President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of eight new Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service…
BREAKING: Nigerian Govt Places Five-Year Ban On Peter Obi Vice President Candidate, Datti Ahmed’s Baze University The Nigerian Law School has banned Baze University in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, from admitting students into its Law Faculty for consistently violating its admission quota of 50 students per session as approved by the Council of Legal Education (CLE). Baze University was founded by Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the running mate to the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi. The imposition of the moratorium was sequel to the findings of the Council of Legal Education which showed that…
Nigerian University Manufacture Electric Vehicles The Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State, said it has commenced the process of manufacturing light weight electric minibus, the first by any university in the country. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Lawrence Ezemonye, said this on Friday at the 21st convocation of the country’s first private university. Mr Ezemonye, a professor, said that the design and fabrication that would lead to the production of the vehicles were ongoing. “Research, development and innovation are critical to scholarship and knowledge production. “The university’s efforts in this regard received a boost with the ongoing design and fabrication…
WATCH: Popular Nigerian Imam Seen Praying For Matawalle Resigns Dr Tukur Sani Jangebe, Chief Imam of Muslim Foundation Jumuat Mosque in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, has resigned. He tendered his resignation after a video where he was seen praying for the success of Minister of State for Defence and the immediate past governor of the state, Bello Matawalle, went viral. The video has since generated mixed reactions among political elites and religious communities in the state. Last week, the Court of Appeal in Abuja voided the election of Dauda Lawal as the governor of Zamfara State and ordered a rerun…
Unrest: Fresh Crisis Rocks Rivers State As Wike Knocks Fubara Again Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has lampooned Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, describing him as an ingrate. Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers, waded into his strained relationship with Fubara for the first time while speaking to select journalists in Abuja, on Friday. Naija News House reports that the relationship between Wike and Fubara went sour less than six months after handover. The crisis reached its height a few weeks ago when the chamber of the State House of Assembly was set ablaze…
Real Reason I Banned Buses, Taxis, ‘Keke NAPEP’ In Abuja, Wike Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says new buses and taxis will soon be rolled out for public transportation in Abuja. Speaking on Tuesday when he met with estate developers in Abuja, Wike said the public transportation scheme will address the incidences of “one chance” operators in the FCT. ‘One chance’ is used to describe scenarios where criminals pose as commercial drivers or passengers to lure unsuspecting victims into their vehicles, and then dispossess them of their valuables. Wike said the buses and taxis will be…
BREAKING: Appeal Court Fixes Date For Nasarawa Governorship Election Dispute The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has fixed Thursday for judgment in the Nasarawa State governorship election dispute. Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had filed an appeal against the verdict of the tribunal which sacked him and declared David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Sule winner of the governorship election but Ombugadu headed for the court. According to INEC, Sule polled a total of 347,209 votes to defeat his closest opponent,…
BREAKING: Judiciary Workers Declares Indefinite Strike The Osun Chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) declared an indefinite strike on Wednesday after police shot tear gas at protesting workers. Mr Oluwagbemiga Eludire, chairman of JUSUN, who declared the strike, stated that it was imperative to put an end to mismanagement of the courts in the state. Eludire claimed that Osun Chief Judge Justice Adepele Ojo had declared war on workers, and that the union would not back down until answers to the embattled CJ’s concerns were supplied. He stated that the union picketed the CJ’s office in order…