By Muhammad Muntazar In a landmark development aimed at restoring stability to Nigeria’s university system, the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have signed a comprehensive new agreement, effectively replacing the contentious 2009 pact that sparked repeated industrial actions over nearly two decades. The formal signingContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa A renowned expert of Electrical Power and Energy Systems in Nigeria, Professor Abdullahi Abdullahi Mati, has been appointed by the authorities of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, as the 8th substantive director of the Institution’s Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT). Professor Mati is expected toContinue Reading
Did you say 73 years? Or you mean 7 and 3? which is 10! Definitely not a decade But 4 score 7 years shy This earthen ware forged by Olodumare the greatest potter Graced the hinterlands of Ilu Ibadan on Ojobo Ojobo; the day of new beginnings in the FalolaContinue Reading
The former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared on Monday before the federal court in Manhattan, New York State, in their first hearing following their abduction on Saturday from the capital, Caracas. The New York Times reported that Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty toContinue Reading
We give glory and adoration to Almighty God that the long-overdue upgrading of Yaba College of Technology to Federal University of Technology Yaba has taken place in our lifetime! We thank His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Executive, and the Legislative arms of the National Assembly for this laudableContinue Reading
One of Africa’s foremost historians, Professor Toyin Falola, holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. In this interview by LASISI OLAGUNJU, Professor Falola answers questions on the American involvement in Nigeria’s anti-terror war, the Almajiri system, theContinue Reading
On the eve of the reported United States military strike on Nigeria on Christmas Day, Nigerians awoke to yet another deeply troubling development—this time from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a statement that provoked widespread alarm, Netanyahu publicly pledged Israel’s commitment to “protect Christians in Nigeria,” a declaration thatContinue Reading
The wars ignited by Israel in 2025 and in the years preceding it have not subsided, nor have their fires been extinguished. They continue to rage in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Iran, and Yemen. Their repercussions have not eased in Sudan, Libya, and the wider HornContinue Reading
Amid the occupation’s recognition of what is known as Somaliland, the separatist region in northern Somalia that had maintained secret contacts with the occupation, historical documents have resurfaced once again, revealing efforts by the Jewish Agency, with the assistance of Britain and the United States, to establish a state forContinue Reading