OVER 100 armed policemen, Wednesday, prevented members and executives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki chapter, from protesting the crisis in the education sector.

Civil servants in Akwa Ibom State are lamenting delay in payment of salaries, particularly that of September.
The delay, which the civil servants said was as a result of the state government failing to save for the rainy day, has been partly attributed to the Federal Allocation Account Committee’s inability to remit allocations to states.

MUSLIM faithful in Adamawa, Tuesday, observed the Eid-el- Kabir amidst tight security, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports. Adamawa is one of the three north eastern states affected by the emergency rule proclaimed by President Goodluck Jonathan due to terrorist activities.

FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday urged the 76,000 Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia to pray against insecurity in Nigeria. A statement issued from Saudi Arabia by the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister, Mr Muhammad Sule, said the minister gave the advice when he addressed some Nigerian pilgrims in Mount Arafat.

Following the influx of sophisticated cars into the country from different parts of the world, auto mechanics in Nigeria have called for special training on the use of computers to repair faulty vehicles

OVER 100 armed policemen dispatched under the directive of the State Commissioner of Police, Maigari Dikko, yesterday, prevented members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki chapter from peacefully protesting against Federal government’s inability to address critical issues surrounding the education sector in the country.

CHAIRMAN of the Delta State chapter of the Phase II of the amnesty programme, ‘Gen’ Kingsley Muturu, yesterday, berated former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, for statements credited to him that the amnesty programme was a drain pipe.

The Ethiopian Football Association has said it will investigate Nigeria’s claim fans attacked their team bus after the countries’ World Cup play-off in Addis Ababa on Sunday.

More than 2,500 children under five have died of malnutrition in Niger this year, the UN Children Fund said Wednesday.

US Senate leaders took a giant step Wednesday toward averting a global fiscal shock by unveiling a plan to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and end the government shutdown.