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The national grid crashed to zero megawatts (MW) at 10:51 am on Monday, causing a nationwide outage, Daily Trust reports. The development occurred days after electricity consumers said they had enjoyed improved supply. The national electricity grid as of 10 am on Monday had 3,712MW generated from 21 Generation Companies (GenCos) before it […]
. The death toll has risen to 13 people, including seven children, after a shooting at a school in the city of Izhevsk in central Russia, investigators said Monday. The attack was the latest in a series of school shootings that have shaken Russia in recent years and came with the country on […]
An order has been given by the Federal Government to all vice-chancellors of universities to re-open schools and resume lectures. This order is coming seven months after the lingering strike and the Federal Government suing the Academic Staff Union of Universities in court. However, tired of the lingering strike the Federal Government through […]
The British pound reached an all-time low against the US dollar on Monday. The development is coming less than a week since the pound plummeted to $1.13 — its lowest level since 1985 — before regaining ground. The pound dropped 3.6 per cent on Friday when Kwasi Kwarteng, UK’s finance minister, unveiled historic […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has faulted and claimed that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is copying the economic blueprint of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The minister made the claim at the national press centre in Abuja on Thursday while speaking with newsmen. According to […]
An Enugu-based lawyer, Ogochukwu Onyema, who hails from the senatorial district of the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has approached the Federal High Court in Enugu praying it to declare the constituency seat vacant. Ekweremadu is the serving senator from Enugu West constituency where the lawyer prayed the court to declare vacant […]
More than 1,337 people have been arrested at demonstrations across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation of civilians to fight in Ukraine, a police monitoring group said Wednesday. The OVD-Info monitoring group counted at least 1,337 people detained at rallies in 38 different cities across the country after […]
North Korea has denied providing weapons and ammunition to Russia. The Defence Ministry in Pyongyang said this earlier in a statement issued on Wednesday that Washington and “hostile forces’’ had spread a rumour of arms dealings’’ aimed at tarnishing North Korea’s image. “We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will appeal a court ruling which directed the union to call off its nationwide strike. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Several meetings […]
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. The ASUU has been on strike for over seven months to press home their demand for improved funding for universities, and a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. […]
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