CALABAR – The Special Adviser to Governor Bassey Otu on Youths Mobilisation, HY Chief Dan Obo, has commended the Governor for appointing Prof. Francisca Bassey as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS). Commenting on the appointment on Wednesday, Obo said Governor Otu is always good at making choices that will…
President Donald Trump is ordering the deportation of foreign students who took part in pro-Hamas protests on college campuses in the US.A new executive order will target resident aliens including students with visas, who broke laws during demonstrations following the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel.Trump said he would instruct his Justice Department to ‘aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism…
Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing in the trial of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, for alleged money laundering to April 3. The judge adjourned the case after the first witness, Fabian Nworah, a property developer, was called to testify in the matter. The Economic…
Global health chiefs have raised an alarm after nine people d!ed in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected ten people in the African nation of Tanzania since the country officially announced the outbreak last week. Of these infections nine have died Africa’s health agency has announced,…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will organise a nationwide rally to protest the approval of a 50 percent hike in telecommunication tariff by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on February 4. The NLC announced this in a communiqué issued at the end of Wednesday’s emergency meeting convened by its National Administrative Council (NAC) and signed…
