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Day: October 12, 2019

FUOYE VC, UI DVC task govt on funding for interdisciplinary research in varsities

…as FUOYE plans to partner U.I, UNILAG, other institutions on teaching, research From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof Kayode Soremekun and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) of the University of Ibadan, (U.I), Prof. Kayode Adebowale have urged the Federal Government to urgently provide more support in terms of funding to interdisciplinary…

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Alleged suspension: Fayose’s allies floor Ekiti Assembly in court

From WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti Lawmakers suspended by the Ekiti State House or Assembly, have floored the House in a court ruling which not only reinstated them but also ordered payment of arrears of a year. The court described the action by the state’s Assembly on the suspension and stoppage of salaries and emoluments of the…

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Budget presentation: What Buhari really told Melaye in this viral picture?

Since this viral picture of President Muhammadu Buhari pointing his index finger at Senator Dino Melaye after he presented the 2020 budget at the National Assembly on Tuesday with Dino responding by hailing him with a salutary fist, The Nation revealed what really transpired as there have been speculations as to what the President was…

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Adelabu’s wrong candidacy, a reason for APC monumental loss to PDP, says Adeduntan

•Says Makinde, Ajimobi and him are brothers, politics can’t divide them From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The immediate former commissioner for Health in Oyo State and Governorship aspirant under the flagship of All Progressive Congress, APC in 2019, Dr. Azeez Adeduntan has said choosing Chief Adebayo Adelabu as governorship candidate of APC in the last election…

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54 year old lecturer, one other in court for raping teenager to death

A 54-year-old senior lecturer with the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Mr. Andrew Ogbuja, was on Friday arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on defilement over death of a teenage girl. This came as Justice Josephine Oyefeso of an Ikeja High Court yesterday fixed November 21 for the adoption of final written addresses in the ongoing…

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Sadiya Farouq denies alleged marriage to Buhari as more controversies trail rumoured marriage

Following the news of President Mohammadu Buhari’s mariage to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster and Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the alleged new wife on Friday, denied commenting on rumors of her getting married to the President. She refuted tweets made using her name by a parody account. The account had tweeted: “There have been…

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