The Academic Staff Union of Universities said the Federal Government, and not its members, are responsible for the union’s prolonged strike.

It therefore appealed to Nigerians to ask the government when it will sign the agreement reached at the just concluded renegotiation meeting.

It was reported that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had on Monday told striking lecturers to consider the future generation and resume work, saying “enough is enough for keeping students at home.”
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Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning.

Security officials at the scene assassin, the suspect is now in police custody.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the attack on Mr Abe's. He was giving a speech for a political candidate in Nara when he was assassinate by the gunman at a road junction.
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Cristiano Ronaldo will not be part of the Manchester United squad for the start of its pre-season tour.

The Red Devils travel to Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, and the club have excused Ronaldo from joining the tour so he can deal with a “family issue”. It is not yet known when the Portuguese will rejoin the squad.
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The Federal Government began uploading the data of 60 terrorists and other criminals to the International Criminal Police Organisation database on Thursday.
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Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has said the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, must be sacked with immediate effect over his failure to put an end to the incessant attacks on prisons in the country.
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Attack on Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja on Tuesday night, ISWAP (The Islamic State of West Africa Province) terrorist group, has claimed responsibility.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, visited the Medium Security Custodial Centre which was attacked by terrorists Kuje Area Council of FCT.

Soon after he arrived, according to a statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, he was briefed about the attack by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. Shuaib Mohammad Lamido Belgore, and the Controller General of Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa, showing him the bombed-out section used to access first, and the records office which was set on fire, adding that the invaders thereafter launched an attack on all cells in which Boko Haram terrorists were held.
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Barley 10 days to the Osun state governorship election, Acting Chairman of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Amb. Umaru Damagum has expressed optimism that the opposition party will recover Osun from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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The Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dumebi Kachikwu, has described president Muhammadu Buhari as a colossal failure in his administration as the nation’s leader, even as he called on the President to resign over worsening insecurity in the country.
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The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has declared that he prefers a youthful man who has developmental ideas as his choice as a running mate ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
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Cristiano Ronaldo will make an instant impact if Chelsea should they go ahead and sign the unhappy superstar.
The Portugal international told Manchester United he want to leave this summer and losing the super star, this coming news season, would be a detrimental blow to Erik ten Hag.
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Kaduna State Governor, Malma Nasir El-Rufai, has endorsed as the best choice of VP to APC presidential flagbearer , Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by TSO Support Organisation.
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Senator Walid Jibrin, Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, call for support of the choice of Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
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23.55kilogrammes of 22 blocks of heroin concealed in packs of baby food intercepted by Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
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Manchester United are facing a huge battle to keep Cristiano Ronaldo after the superstar striker told senior bosses he wants to leave.
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Former presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor in France supposedly meeting with the Presidential candidate of APC, Bola Tinubu.

This revealed by Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Environment and Water Resources on his social media platforms.
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Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s footprints will be ineradicable on the sands of time.

According to Adesina, Buhari’s progresses in infrastructure, social investment, agriculture, and many others will remain timeless.
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a fresh application for bail by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu on Tuesday.
The application was filed pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge against him by the Federal Government.

Kanu, who is currently facing a seven-count charge, had in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), also challenged the revocation of the bail the court earlier granted to him.

He asked the court to set aside the order it made on March 28, 2019, which not only issued a bench warrant for his arrest, but also gave FG the nod to try him in absentia.
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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress left the country for France on Monday.

Tinubu left Nigeria shortly after he held a closed-door meeting with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in the morning.

This was contained in a statement issued by Tinubu’s Spokesman, Tunde Rahman, in Abuja.
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The ruling All Progressives Congress accused the Peoples Democratic Party of being the brain behind the rumour that the APC had earmarked N6.5 trillion to rig the 2023 general election on Monday.

The report claimed that the ruling party planned the whopping sum that is almost half of the entire country’s 2022 budget for vote-buying and bribing of security agents at polling units, judiciary and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), told the former President Olusegun Obasanjo to elucidated this comment he allegedly made that picking Atiku as running mate in 1999 was a mistake or threatened in 48hours to tell the whole world who the former President Olusegun Obasanjo his.
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad stepped down yesterday amid allegations of corruption.

President Buhari, administered yesterday an oath on new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola to take over from the outgone CJN.
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The coalition of South East Youth Leaders(COSEYL), angered by the alleged threat to the life of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP), Mr Peter Obi by those called Fulani Jihadists has warned that no one should dare them.

COSEYL, an umbrella body of all youth groups in the South East reminded those that are behind the threat that no one in the country has the monopoly of violence.
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Dave Umahi Ebonyi State Governor and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio names, missing from the Presidential list, Vice Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates for the 2023 elections.
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Bale is looking to maintain his fitness ahead of Wales' appearance at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Bale, chosen to move to California and the MLS after leaving Real Madrid this summer, free agent Bale, had other offers but MLS is the move.

Bale confirmed this move on it social media pages by saying: "See you soon, Los Angeles".
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Malcolm Omoirhobo, a human rights lawyer caused a commotion base on his choice of dressing at the Supreme Court in Abuja.

Photos circulated on social media showed Omoirhobo dressed in a lawyer’s robe mixed with other materials that made him look like an African native doctor.
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Three former First Bank of Nigeria workers facing charges before a Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja for attempted fraud.

The three former workers, Obike Chukwuka, 38, Ozioma Ugorji, 35; and Ugwu Emeka, 32; allegedly attempting to steal N20bn from the bank were arraigned by the EFCC.
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The Indigenous People of Biafra has described the comments by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that the group was responsible for pipeline vandalism in the country as “laughable, disgraceful and fallacious”.
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, linked oil theft and pipeline vandalism by the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

The underperformance of the daily production quota in Nigeria caused by the vandalism and oil theft carried out by IPOB, said the President.
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Court sitting in Abuja, The Federal High fix a date July 20 to hear the suit challenging the eligibility of the PDP Presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, to contest the 2023 presidential election.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo, ordered that all the legal processes on the former Vice President, Atiku to enable PDP Presidential candidate to respond to the suit.
It directed that Atiku, should be served within seven days, through publication of the court processes in a national daily.
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Major cities of Lagos,Ogun and Abuja witnessed Fuel queues on Monday, forcing motorists to spend hours at filling stations.

In Lagos and Ogun states, Long queues were witnessed at several filling stations such as Mobil, Capital, Fatgbems, Enyo, TotalEnergies and NNPC.
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National Mass Metering Programme instructed by The Federal Government to electricity distribution companies to resume the Metre Assets Providers programme, recently slowed down.

The National Mass Metering Programme under the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo office was introduced in 2020 to close the gap in the Electricity Supply Industry.
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