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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for redistribution of N132 billion to ensure 90 per cent goes to the tertiary institutions. This came as Federal Government recently approved N320.3 billion 2023 intervention for public tertiary institutions in the country. ASUU had in October 2022, called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of revitalization funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). In an interview with…

The Federal High Court, Lagos has vacated an interim ex-parte order stopping Roger Brown from parading himself as the Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy Plc. Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke vacated the order while ruling on the applications filed by Seplat Energy PLC, Roger Brown, Basil Omiyi and persons affected by the ex parte order in the case. The court held that by virtue of Order 26 Rules 9 and 10 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2019, the interim orders of the court made on March 8, 2023, are hereby discharged and vacated. The Judge was to rule on…

Frank Lampard has accepted an offer to become Chelsea interim manager until the end of the 2022-23 English Premier League season. Lampard was manager of Chelsea for one-and-a-half years before he was sacked and replaced by Thomas Tuchel. The London club are currently without a permanent head coach after Graham Potter was sacked last Sunday after seven months in charge following a poor run of results. Also read: Chelsea to shell out £50m payout to sacked Potter On Thursday morning, Sky Sports reported Lampard and Chelsea have agreed a short-term deal that saw him returning to the club. Bruno Saltor, who…

The 25 richest people in the world are worth $2.1 trillion, according to Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, released Tuesday, down a combined $200 billion from $2.3 trillion in 2022. Two-thirds of the top 25 are poorer than they were last year, compared to around half of the list overall. No one lost more than Jeff Bezos as Amazon shares crashed by 38 per cent. The drop lopped $57 billion from Bezos’ fortune and knocked him from No. 2 in the world in 2022 to No. 3 this year. This year’s second-biggest loser, Elon Musk, had it worse. He lost his title of…

A San Francisco jury has ordered Tesla to pay a American-African former employee nearly $3.2 million for racial discrimination. In October 2021, Tesla was ordered to pay Owen Diaz $137 million by a jury when the original trial ended in October 2021. A judge later reduced the amount in keeping with legal standards, but Diaz rejected the judge’s proffered damages amount in favor of a new trial. Diaz was an elevator operator at the electric vehicle-maker’s Fremont, California factory between June 2015 and July 2016, where he was subjected to racist abuse and a hostile work environment, according to the court…

Access Bank has become a leading commercial bank in Nigeria with a strong presence in different African countries and beyond.  One of the key strategies employed by the bank to achieve its growth objective has been through acquisition of other commercial banks. Over the years, the bank has grown through various mergers and acquisitions, expanding its reach and consolidating its position as a key player in the financial services industry. Owned by Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe from Rivers State, the bank has acquired some of the notable banks. In 2012, Access Bank acquired Intercontinental Bank, one of Nigeria’s leading banks at…

The Federal High Court, Lagos has granted social media influencer, Blessing Okoro, better known as Blessing CEO, N10 million bail for alleged cyber-bullying. Blessing CEO was arraigned by the Lagos State Police Command before Justice Yelim Bogoro on six count charges bordering on alleged cyber-bullying, libel, and exhibiting uncensored movies. During the hearing on Tuesday, April 4, the influencer’s lawyer filed a bail application before Justice Tijjani Ringim of the Federal High Court in Lagos on her behalf which the police did not oppose to the bail application. Also read:  Alleged cyber-bullying: Court remands Blessing CEO for two months- Court…

The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April as public holidays to mark 2023 Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who announced this in Abuja on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace and patience which were attributes and practices of Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His ministry on the earth. In a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, the minister called on Christians and all Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Easter celebration to pray for an end to the security challenges…

Akwa Ibom General Hospital, Awa Iman in Onna Local Government Area of the state has performed three more surgeries in transvenous cardiac pacemaker implantation.  This brings to five the number in the hospital as the facility recorded two in February 2023. Briefing newsmen at the hospital, the surgery Team Leader, Dr Eyo Ekpo described the cardiac pacemaker implantation as a life saving procedure that helps to control heart beat, he noted that “this implant is not common in general hospitals.” “The first pacemaker implant carried out at the General Hospital, Awa Iman took place on the 15th of February 2023…

Ex-US president, Donald Trump has become the first to be impeached twice and first to face felony counts in the country’s political troubled water. Israel Umoh Former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money paid to an adult film star in 2016. He entered the plea after being placed under arrest at a federal courthouse in Manhattan, the culminating moment in a historic day that marked the first time a US president has ever been charged with a crime. Mr Trump, who is the front-runner for…