By Dayo Johnson AKURE—THE Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU weekend accused the Federal Government of propaganda and plotting to destroy the nation’s public varsities at the expense of private ones. The Chairman of ASUU, Ilorin Zone, Prof. Eddy Olanipekun, stated this at a press conference held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure after […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE—IMMEDIATE governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu weekend charged the present administration in the state to be sincere enough to acknowledge his good deeds while in office and make attempts to build on such solid foundations instead of engaging in stifling propaganda. Dr Agagu was reacting to a statement reportedly made […]

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—PROPERTIES worth millions of naira were destroyed,  weekend, in a  flood that ravaged the Bridge Head housing estate in the commercial town of Onitsha in Anambra state. Most of the buildings  in the estate built during the Jim  Nwobodo administration, had their ground floors covered with debris, with water levels rising up […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Fourteen days after her abduction by armed gunmen from her country home at Tungbo in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the family of Grandma Lydia Epidi, yesterday, had cause to rejoice as they reunited with her. Mrs. Lydia Epidi, it was learnt, regained her freedom in the early hours […]

Members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS), in the Nigerian economy, comprising the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI) and the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), are opposed to the plan to introduce a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Tax on businesses in the country through the CSR Commission Bill.