KwaraPoly students lock down Ilorin over N10,000 charge for late registration
ILORIN-There was pandemonium in Ilorin, kwara state capital Tuesday morning as Hundreds of students of Kwara state polytechnic took to the major streets to protest the management's decision to charge extra N10,000 fee as penalty for late registration. The protest however yielded results as the polytechnic management in a swift reaction reduced the charge for late registration from N10,000 to N5,000 and promised to pay back the students who have already paid.
Iran summons Nigeria’s charge d’affaires over army crackdown on Shiites
Iran summoned Nigeria’s charge d’affaires to protest over the Nigerian army’s deadly crackdown on pro-Iranian Shiites in the north of the country, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.
Kogi, Bayelsa: We’ve no regrets say INEC Chairman
For the first time, Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has told critics of his performance in the “inconclusive” Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections to focus more on the provisions of the law rather than sentiments.
Ex-militants, women take resource control battle to Ijaw deity
BURUTU—THE ancient town of Gbekebor in Burutu Local Government of Delta State was abuzz lately as hundreds of ex-militants, elders, women and youths from Bayelsa, Delta, Cross River and Ondo states in the Niger-Delta region thronged the community to worship the Ijaw god of war. Chief Priest, Godday Smith aka General Bounanwei, King of the Forest, led the multitude in this year’s feast, the third since a group of adherents initiated the ceremony.
The Igbo Question: A response to JIbrin Ibrahim
IDENTITY politics in Nigeria is very much alive, well and thriving. It’s an elite preoccupation. Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim is one of Nigeria’s most astute and reputable political scientists.
How I was drugged, raped, fired from Air Force
In 2012, they posted me unduly again to Lagos. They posted me abruptly again because they found I wanted to expose them as I had gone to Human Rights Fighters in Abuja where they interviewed me. In one of my encounters with Human Rights group, the officer and his gang called to threatened that I would die or not be alive to try the case after which I did not hear from the human rights people again.
