Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Friday 26th April 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>Tuition: Police invade Adekunle Ajasin varsity, arrest students
Armed policemen yesterday invaded the premises of the Ondo State owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), beating and molesting students of the university for daring the institution’s ‘no tuition, no examination’ policy. Sources in the town said the policemen were acting on the instruction of the university’s management, led by Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun. The
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target=_blank>Ebonyi NLC crisis deepens as two chairmen emerge
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ebonyi State chapter yesterday held parallel congresses to elect new leaders of the union. The union was enmeshed in leadership crisis in 2017 as a faction had announced impeachment and suspension of Chairman of the union, Comrade Ikechukwu Nwafor and announced his Deputy Comrade Leonard Nkah of National Union of Local
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target=_blank>Runaway dads as ‘nightmares’
The rate at which young women are becoming single mothers is increasingly worrisome. Apart from widows, it’s like we are having single moms almost at equal proportion to married women. This unpleasant situation is partly a consequence of the blithe attitude of their men; many of who chose to be irresponsible, philandering and uncaring fathers.
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target=_blank>Ekiti teachers protest seven months’ unpaid salaries
Secondary School teachers recruited in September 2018 in Ekiti State by former governor Ayodele Fayose yesterday protested non-payment of seven months’ salaries, urging Governor Kayode Fayemi to intervene with a view to ending their plights. About 500 teachers, who converged on Ikere Ekiti said several effort were made to get the attention of the government
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target=_blank>USNC backs apex bank’s monetary policy
The United States Nigeria Council (USNC), a business organisation, dedicated to deepening commercial ties between the U.S. and Nigeria and creating a platform for leading Nigerian entrepreneurs, has backed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s monetary policy. USNC Chairman, Ambassador Terence McCulley, made this known on the margins of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings. McCulley
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target=_blank>Attack on journalists, media professionals
Verbal assaults, bone-faced insults, physical attacks and even threat to life are hauled the way of journalists and media professionals during the course of dispensing their duties anywhere in Nigeria, on a regular basis. In 2018 alone, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its annual analysis put the number of journalists killed in the
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target=_blank>Bequeath developmental legacies to coming generation, cleric urges leaders
Leaders in Nigeria, both political and religious, have been tasked to use their positions in the community to bequeath a legacy that would aid the development of the society during and after their life time. Throwing the challenge was an Islamic scholar and Chief Imam of Afanta Central Mosque, Oshogbo, Sheikh Abdul- Wahab Banni, while
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target=_blank>Civil servants seek minister’s probe over alleged impunity
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria ASCSN has called on the National Assembly and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to probe the activities of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, over alleged corruption, impunity, high handedness, injustice and nepotism since assuming office in 2015. Speaking with journalists,
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target=_blank>Police brutality, impunity thrive in South-East – NHRC
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has declared that policemen in South-East were rarely held accountable for acts of impunity and abuses of human rights which had fueled rampant incidents of police brutality in the region. This is also as the National Coordinator for the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), Okechukwu Nwanguma said
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Insurance: FG to spend N175.19m on foreign missions
Despite its poor response to insurance matters, especially with regard to premium, the Federal Government has earmarked about N175.19 million as premium for the country’s foreign missions. Findings by New Telegraph revealed that the amount covers both active and inactive centres cutting across 107 locations. The appropriation is also coming when the Federal Government […]
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