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The Punch

Gbajabiamila lists reasons FG won’t pay ASUU fully.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has indicated that the Federal Government may not fully pay university lecturers for the eighth months that the Academic Staff Union of Universities was on strike.

Gbajabiamila, in a statement issued on Monday, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was being awaited to approved the proposal of “partial” payment presented to him.


The Vanguard

Atiku don’t need Ortom to win Benue – Kazeem.

The founder of Atiku 100 percent, Mr. Tanimu Kazeem has said that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP does not need the governor of Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom to win Benue State come 2023.

Kazeem who was reacting to Ortom’s statement when he said “to hell with Atiku” noted that Atiku will win in Benue state without Ortom support.


Daily Post

Peter Obi vows never to attend debate where Tinubu, Atiku are absent.

The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has vowed never to attend debates if his counterparts from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, do not show up.


Leadership News

Organ Harvesting: UK Court Moves Ekweremadu’s Trial To Jan 31.

No respite yet for the embattled former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, over his trial on alleged organ harvesting case as the Central Criminal Court in London, the United Kingdom, yesterday moved the trial date from May, 2023 to January 31, 2023.

According to Channels TV, the Old Bailey agreed that arguments would be heard on the 16th or 19th of December 2022 before the commencement of the trial in January.


ICIR News

Kano skit makers to be flogged 20 strokes of cane for calling Ganduje ‘corrupt’.

The ICIR gathered that the duo had made a viral skit video depicting Ganduje as a corrupt politician who sold every available public plot of land in the state.


ThisDay

CJN Issues Stern Warning to Election Tribunal Judges.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has sounded out a note of warning to judges that would be handling petitions that may likely arise from the conduct of the 2023 elections to put the interest of the country above parochial and sentimental conclusions.


Premium Times

Abuja-Kaduna rail services resume November – Official

Train services on the route were suspended after terrorists attacked a Kaduna-bound train and abducted scores of passengers.

The Federal Government, on Monday, announced that Kaduna-Abuja rail services will resume operations this month.

The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, told journalists while presenting his ministry’s scorecard from 2015 to 2022 at a ministerial briefing in Abuja.


The Nation

Obi-Datti my greatest birthday wish – Kenneth Okonkwo.

Actor-cum-politician Kenneth Okonkwo has said his biggest birthday wish is to have the presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP) Peter Obi win the 2023 poll.

The thespian, who recently turned 54, asked God to grant Nigeria a new beginning with respect to her leaders while thanking Him for the blessing of another year in his life.

He wished the Almighty touches the hearts of the citizens so that they would unanimously cast their votes for the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi in the 2023 polls.

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