Month: August 2025

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be heading for another showdown with the Federal Government as lecturers decry poor pay and conditions of service. The union, which staged nationwide protests on Tuesday, says it will now hold congresses to decide its next line of action. At the heart of the dispute is the stalled renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement, which was concluded in December 2024 and formally

The Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede, has been sentenced to 56 months in prison by a United States court for his role in a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 relief fund scam. Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Judge Christopher Boyko of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio also ordered the monarch to pay more than $4.4 million in restitution and forfeit assets linked to the

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has revealed that 239 first-class graduates employed as lecturers by the institution left within seven years due to poor welfare and harsh working conditions. Ogundipe made the disclosure on Tuesday while delivering a lecture at The PUNCH Forum themed “Innovative Funding of Functional Education in the Digital Age”, held at The PUNCH Place, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. According to him, between

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) permission to obtain full banking details of Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, amid an ongoing investigation into alleged terrorism financing and money laundering. In a ruling delivered on Tuesday, Justice Emeka Nwite directed six financial institutions—United Bank for Africa, Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank, Opay, Moniepoint, and Kuda Microfinance Bank—to provide the police with account opening

Nigeria’s electricity grid has continued to struggle to surpass 6,000 megawatts, with generation levels hovering around 5,500MW for several months. This development coincides with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (NERC) transfer of regulatory authority in Bayelsa State to the newly established Bayelsa Electricity Regulatory Agency (BYERA). Despite the decentralisation drive granting more states autonomy over their electricity markets, actual power generation has shown little progress. Announcing the handover via its