Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have declared a one-day protest on Thursday over the failure of the Federal Government to address their demands. SSANU and NASU, through the Joint Action Committee, have directed all of their branches to hold a joint emergency meeting on Wednesday to mobilize all of their members for protest activities such as campus protest marches, placard displays conveying their grievances, and press conferences. JAC decided to launch a demonstration on October 6 after conducting a thorough analysis of the government’s response to…

A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France for viewing photos of child pornography on a plane, a court official said Tuesday. Masanaga Kageyama, the Japanese Football Association’s technical director, was arrested last week during a stopover at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport on his route to Chile, according to Le Parisien newspaper. It is believed he was on his way to the Under-20 World Cup in Chile. “The facts were discovered by the plane’s flight crew, who raised the alarm after noticing that the convicted man was viewing child pornography…

A Nigerian Army officer, Lt. Samson Haruna, has reportedly died after sustaining severe burns when his wife set him ablaze during a domestic dispute. This was revealed on Tuesday in a post on X by counter-insurgency expert Zagazola Makama. Makama stated that the tragic incident occurred on Sept. 22, 2025, at Wellington Bassey Barracks, Ibagwa, Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. According to Makama, “a source said the officer, who was also a medical doctor attached to the 6 Battalion Regimental Medical Officer, RMO, had a heated argument with his wife, Mrs. Samson Haruna, which resulted in her dousing…

Some members of the National Association of Oduduwa Students, the Coalition of Yoruba Students, and the Yoruba Movement are currently holding a peaceful protest in support of the Dangote Refinery, which is embroiled in a dispute with oil unions PENGASSAN, NUPENG, and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria. The protesters, who gathered on Tuesday at Iwo Road Roundabout, at the end of the Ibadan/Lagos Expressway in Ibadan, Oyo State, chanted various songs to demonstrate their solidarity. They are marching across key roadways, brandishing banners with phrases such as “Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery,” “#StopsabotagingfuelinNigeria,” “#EndPENGASSAN,” “#EndDAPPMAN,” “#DangoteRefineryIsANationalAsset,” “#StopSabotage,”…

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has dubbed Senator Adams Oshiomhole the “Judas Iscariot of trade unionism” for his comments on the settled dispute between Dangote Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN. NUPENG’s National President and General Secretary, Comrades Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale, issued the following statement: “These remarks represent a reprehensible attack on the fundamental rights of Nigerian workers and a blatant distortion of established labor laws.” It further stated, “We view with deep disappointment a former labor leader who has morphed into a staunch defender of…

Dr. Ifeanyi Ogbu, an Abuja-based veterinary practitioner and former head of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, FCT Chapter, was assassinated by alleged kidnappers who abducted his three children. The deceased’s home in the Kubwa area, near the Kubwa-Kaduna route, was reportedly invaded by gunmen on Friday night. They kidnapped him and his three children, then dumped his body by the roadside. Andrew Gabriel Ikechukwu verified Dr. Ogbu’s death on his Facebook page, stating that the corpse of the dead was found on the roadway. He wrote, “Dr. Ifeanyi Ogbu, the immediate past chairman of the NVMA FCT chapter, who was…

The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has declared spiritual independence from the Church of England, rejecting the appointment of Bishop Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Church argues that Mullally’s support for same-sex marriage and elevation as the first female to hold the position represent a troubling moral decline within the Anglican Communion leadership. In a statement issued by the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, the Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba, the Church described the announcement made on Friday, October 3, 2025, as ‘devastating’ and ‘insensitive,’ accusing the Church of England of ignoring the deep divisions already…

Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has encouraged the Lagos State government to balance enforcement with charity in the demolition of structures, claiming that being “legally correct” is not a replacement for being morally right. The comments come a week after he visited the site of the demolished ASPAMDA Market at the Trade Fair Complex, where he criticized the demolition of vendors’ plazas and called it a test of the state’s commitment to justice and human rights. However, in a statement issued on Wednesday last week, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, claimed Obi went into emotional…

A lawyer, Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi, has petitioned the Federal High Court in Abuja for a perpetual injunction to prevent former President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. The court was also urged to prohibit the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, from accepting or publishing Jonathan’s name as a legitimate presidential contender. While ex-President Jonathan was named as the first defendant in the complaint filed in court on Monday, INEC and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) were placed as the second and third defendants, respectively. Specifically, in the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2102/2025, the Plaintiff, Jideobi, posed a…

President Bola Tinubu has approved a N4 trillion bond to pay off verified debts owing to power generation companies and gas providers as part of efforts to stabilize Nigeria’s energy market and restore trust in the industry. Adebayo Adelabu, Minister of Power, made the announcement in Abuja at the Nigeria Economic Summit Group’s Expert Forum on ‘Uninterrupted Power: The Industrial Imperative,’ where he outlined ongoing reforms under the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda to make the power sector sustainable and commercially viable. According to him, the bond approval is part of a larger financial stabilization strategy aimed at addressing legacy…