By HENRY UMAHI (KINGHENRYSUN@YAHOO.COM)Owed salaries for months, tertiary institutions crumbling“All is not well in Abia State Polytechnic, Aba. If you are owing me salary arrears, I can’t say all is well.” This was how the chairman of the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Mr Precious Nwakodo, in capsule form, described…
By Our ReporterAt a time when the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole presidential candidate for the 2015 elections, a top leader and one of the party’s founding fathers, Chief Abu King Shuluwa, has said any attempt by the President to run for another term…
Voters in Scotland turned up at polling stations to find that people had already voted using their names, according to Daily Mail of UK.Glasgow City Council confirmed that there had been 10 instances where people had gone to vote and found their names had already been crossed off the list.Spokesman Colin Edgar said: “We’ve had…
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has accused the Federal Government of doing very little to put an end to the rising insecurity and the unending killings in the country.The Bishops, who issued a statement during their Second Annual Plenary in Warri, Delta State, said the meeting has daily been inundated with “first-hand and horrifying…
.The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Friday called on all leaders to harbour no fear in speaking out the truth. The sultan was speaking when he received former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in his palace in Sokoto. Abubakar said “Traditional rulers are always close to the people…
THE emerging scenario in the fight against terror and the steps Nigeria’s government has taken would have resulted in global sensation during the cold war. The United States would fight to keep their allies.They would never easily lose any of their allies to then Soviet Union as now represented by Russia which has, although, embraced…
Police at the Emirates Stadium in the Scottish city said they were investigating possible cases of double vote impersonation where people pretend to be someone else, cast a vote and then the real person later turns up to vote again.
The Lagos State Government has moved against the popular Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun, whose one of its buildings collapsed last week killing scores of people including a 10-year-old kid with many others critically injured. The structure, which was under construction, was initially a two-storey building before the addition of four new floors which…
Following the controversy hanging over the ferry of $9.3million in a private aircraft to South Africa
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived Lagos yesterday.On his arrival, the former Lagos State governor quickly dismissed insinuations that he was ill.He said he was never admitted in any London hospital, wondering where his “detractors” got the information that he was very ill – a rumour that has…