The past 24 hours has had interesting happenings and events. Starting from a protest by undergraduates in Kwara state, requesting for the reopening of higher institutions in the state, to The Academic Staff Union of Universities calling on the Federal Government to pay arrears of withheld salaries of its members to pave way for further discussions on the outstanding issues of 2019 Memorandum of Action. below are top trending news.
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Assimi Goita, a colonel in the Malian army, has declared himself head of the “National Committee for the salvation of the People”, a group created by rebels in the country. He announced his new position after a meeting with top civil servants on Wednesday he was one of the five soldiers who announced the formation of the salvation committee earlier on Wednesday.
An auto crash involving a truck and a Pontiac Vibe in the Iyana-Isolo area of Lagos has left three unharmed but the vehicle badly damaged. The truck which was laden with a twain 20ft containers had collided with the salon car painted in Red when the car was trying to avoid running into commercial buses underneath the bridge. The incident which involved the unregistered Pontiac was said to have occurred around 1: 57 pm.
A protest was staged on Wednesday, August 19, by undergraduates in Kwara state, requesting for the reopening of higher institutions in the state. Since March, Higher Institutions in Nigeria have been shut down by the government as part of measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a fresh petition against the Nigerian government and all former heads of states for the roles they played during and after the civil war that claimed the lives of young men of the Igbo extraction known as Biafran Youths.
It’s never too late to try, as a 48-year-old Nigerian mum is sitting for the ongoing West African Examinations Council (WAEC) 2020 exams. The mother of three identified as Christina Samuel quit her farming business to sit for the exams. According to a social media post by her niece, Christina Samuel sponsors her children to school through money she makes from farming. Her first son is currently a 200-level medical student whose education is sponsored with proceeds from her farming.
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Nigerian cross-dresser Bobrisky has in an Instagram post explained that he switched from being a man to a woman because a lot of man act like he goats. Bobrisky explained that he received a DM from a fan who was a victim of domestic violence and he couldn’t why someone would attack a woman if he is not an animal.
Current Head of House Kiddwaya has boasted none of the Housemates is as rich as he is. He revealed a conversation with Erica. According to him: “I don’t take things seriously in this house; if I did, I would have had issues with some Housemates. I know what I have outside; my net worth cannot be compared with them outside here. “Nobody compares. They don’t compare to me, not like am bragging or something but my net worth, my bank account don’t compare to them.”
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to pay arrears of withheld salaries of its members to pave way for further discussions on the outstanding issues of 2019 Memorandum of Action. The President of the association, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, made the call at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday. Ogunyemi said five months salaries of ASUU members in some universities were still withheld by the Accountant General of the Federation on account of non-registration on IPPIS.
An Enugu state woman has reportedly returned N13,946,400 mistakenly transferred to her account by a Non-Governmental Organization. According to the report, the woman whose name was given as Mrs Josephine Nchetaka Chukwujama Eze, in agreement with her husband Chukwujama Eze, returned the money approximated to N14 million, mistakenly credited to the wife’s bank account from a company she has no business with.
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, says that he is “not a lover of materialism”, adding that the only property he own is the one he bought in 2001 in London. Kanu who spoke during a broadcast on Friday morning, said he is contented with what he have. The IPOB leader also challenged anyone with evidence of a property he bought during the struggle for Biafra under IPOB, to come forward with tangible evidence.
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