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The Director of SERVICOM at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) Professor Patrick Egaga was on Sunday night kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at the University staff quarters. Prof. Egaga who is a professor at the Department of Special Education at the University was said…

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has told the Central Bank of Nigeria to rescind its recently introduced Price Verification System. The Director-General of the association, Segun Ajayi-Kadir stated this in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH recently. According to him, the CBN’s Price Verification…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has directed its members to join the nationwide strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). ASUU, on Monday, issued a directive to its members to commence the strike at midnight…

Following the expiration of the deadline issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to the federal government over the alleged brutalisation of the NLC president Joe Ajaero, the two labour centres have resolved to begin an…

Commuters were left stranded in Lagos on Monday following a protest by commercial bus drivers over alleged extortion by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and Task Force. Some parts of the state, such as Egbeda, Agege, and Iyana Ipaja, were affected. In…

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said former President Muhammadu Buhari was an, “idiot” for banning Twitter in Nigeria. Soyinka said this in an interview with Arise News Channel at the CANEX Live Theatre closing ceremony of the 3rd Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF)…

Civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to promptly establish a joint, credible, transparent, effective, and broad-based investigation into allegations of electoral bribery and violence in the off-cycle governorship elections in…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), among other workers’ unions, are up in arms against the federal government over the proposed deduction of 40 per cent of the revenues generated by the…

No fewer than 20 students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) in Cross River State were on Saturday rushed to the university’s Teaching Hospital following a stampede at an examination hall at the campus. It was gathered that the stampede occurred where the…

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka said technology is creating new generations of illiterates in Nigerian society. Soyinka stated this at the CANEX Live Theatre closing ceremony of the 3rd Intra-African Trade Fair, IATF 2023, in Cairo on Friday. The fair was convened by the…