The federal government,Wednesday, reacted defiantly to the protest from the students and staff of the University of Lagos which was re-named Moshood Abiola University, saying that there was no going back on the decision as the late acclaimed winner of…
Judges at an international war crimes court have sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years prison following his landmark conviction for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered and mutilated thousands during their country’s brutal civil war.
The…
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja Wednesday ruled that the embattled former Managing Director of defunct Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, has a case to answer in the N47.1 billion theft charge instituted against him by the Economic and Financial…
The University of Lagos, Akoka, southwest Nigeria, was this morning shut for two weeks by the authorities of the institution following protests by the students against President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to rename the institution after the late icon of democracy,…
The Acting Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Rahmon Bello, on Tuesday described as a surprise the Federal Government’s decision to rename the institution as Moshood Abiola University.
Bello made the remark while addressing protesting students of the institution, who…
Imo State workers will today commence an indefinite industrial action over unresolved industrial dispute with the state government.
The threat was contained in a statement by the State Public Service Negotiating Council, SPSNC, Trade Union Side, signed by the State…
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, has kicked against the renaming of the University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday.
Gbajabiamila alleged that Jonathan “acted illegally” by unilaterally changing…
Two females in a bus conveying passengers from Lagos to Abuja were last Tuesday raped by armed robbers who attacked their bus at Sagamu area of Ogun State.
The gunmen also robbed all the passengers. PUNCH Metro learnt that the…
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), late on Monday, in Arusha, Tanzania, signed a 250 million dollars agreement with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) of South Africa.
The agreement was PIC’s investment on behalf of government employment pension fund (GEPF) in ETI’s…
The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as the Moshood Abiola University. And his son has expressed shock about the protest that the…
