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The Senate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, has directed the resumption of full academic activities in the university with immediate effect. The Senate, in an emergency meeting on Friday, 28th September, 2023 reviewed its earlier directive suspending academic activities, a directive which was occasioned by protest over purported increase in tuition fees leading to the locking of the campus gate. …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Isa Ashiru, said on Friday he would approach the appeal court to declare him the winner of the March 18 election in the state. The three-member panel led by Justice Victor Oviawie had on Thursday upheld Governor Uba Sani’s victory in the election. The tribunal’s ruling had somewhat caused confusion …

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18, 2023 election in Delta State has rejected the verdict of the Delta State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. Omo-Agege has also directed his legal team to immediately proceed with an appeal against Friday’s judgment that upheld the election of Sheriff Oborevwori as governor of Delta State. …

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, on Wednesday, predicted that there would be additional military coups in French-speaking West and Central African nations in the near future in response to the coup in Gabon. Earlier, President Ali Bongo’s democratically elected administration, which had been in place since 2009, was overthrown by certain army commanders on Wednesday. With a two-thirds …

Mrs. Omowunmi Aloba, wife of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, on Tuesday explained how her relationship with the singer’s father became strained. She told a coroner’s court investigating the circumstances surrounding her husband’s death in September that she used to relate well with her father-in-law, Mr. Oladimeji Aloba, and that both of them were very close until things between …

Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) has disclosed that it has agreed to the terms and conditions of the merger of the company with NASCON Allied Industries Plc. and Dangote Rice Limited (DRL). In a statement released on Wednesday, Dangote Sugar said the scheme of arrangement offers NASCON and DRL shareholders 12 shares of 50 kobo each in DSR for 11 ordinary …

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has declared its readiness to push up the nation’s yearly earnings in non-oil exports to 35 billion dollars in the next five years. The director-general of SMEDAN, Mr. Charles Odii, disclosed this during a three-day capacity-building programme on packaging and branding of products for AfCFTA on Tuesday in Uyo. The …

The Confederation of African Football have finally announced the details of the African Super League, now called African Football League, which will include eight members, including Mamelodi Sundowns, in it’s inaugural season. The CAF Super League had been mooted over for a long time and CAF have now finally confirmed the matches will take place between 20 October and 11 …

Nigerian singer Iyanya Mbuk popularly known in music circles as Iyanya has stated that Yvonne Nelson’s allegations about their relationship almost made me lose his current relationship. Recall that Yvonne Nelson in her book ‘I Am Not Yvonne Nelson’ accused her former boyfriend of cheating on her with Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, while they were still dating. Yvonne Nelson also …

The Federal Government on Tuesday evacuated another batch of 161 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya. The Chargé D’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, Amb. Kabiru Musa, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the exercise was carried out in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). He added that the exercise was to ensure …