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Due to unpaid salaries, varsity employees threaten to go on strike again.

On the margins of the union's current National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, Prince Peters Adeyemi, the general secretary of NASU, hinted that the members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Other Associated Institutions would likely resumetheir suspended strike in protest of the Federal Government's refusal to pay their withheld salaries.In October 2023, President Tinubu ordered that members of NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities receive two of the four months' salaries that the federal government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, withheld in 2022 after a protracted strike over unresolved disputes.Adeyemi told reporters that the directive, which was issued two months ago, has not been followed.What is new is that the President’s directive has been disobeyed. We used to know that the president’s words can...

12 Suspected Bandits Bodie Discovered in FCT Village Following Security Operation

On the finding of 12 bodies thought to be those of bandits, there was anxiety in the Tokulo hamlet of the Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory. On Tuesday morning, October 15, 2024, Jerry Alkali, the area councillor for the Igu Ward, told Daily Trust that the remains were still there. According to Alkali, locals contacted him Monday between 2 and 3 in the morning to express their fear at the frequent gunshot noises in the neighbourhood. He said,“No one could afford to sleep at the time due to the tension caused by the...

man in Lagos fatally stabs his Cousin

Following a violent altercation between the two relatives on Monday, October 14, 2024, in Lagos State, a man known as Ganiyu Ibrahim fatally stabbed his cousin Afeez Akeem.  The suspect remains at large, according to State Police Command spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident to Punch. The PPRO stated that the police received a report from a woman stating that her nephew, Afeez Akeem, and her son, Ganiyu Ibrahim, got into a violent altercation due to a miscommunication.  At approximately seven in the morning, Ganiyu and his cousin Afeez reportedly got into a heated debate that turned violent. As a result, Ganiyu broke a bottle and stabbed Afeez on the left side...