The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Thursday said the Federal Government could resolve the ongoing strike in one day.
National President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, said the Federal Government could resolve the strike if they prioritized the demands of the union.
Speaking with Arise News Morning Show, Osodeke, Nigerian...
An Italian man has become the first person to simultaneously test positive for monkeypox, Covid, and HIV.
Earlier this year, a 36-year-old Italian male began to develop a series of symptoms including fatigue, fever, and a sore throat nine days after returning from a trip to Spain.
The man, who has not...
The Singaporean government will decriminalise sex between men, the prime minister announced on Sunday, August 21, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the government would repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, adding that society was becoming...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday August 16, arraigned an internet influencer, Portia Emilia before a Lagos Special Offences Court, in Ikeja over alleged N110million fraud.
She was arraigned alongside her company Savanah Crest Investment Limited before the court.
The defendants are facing a six count charge bordering on conspiracy,...
A new shocking report has claimed that UN peacekeepers from 12 different countries have fathered and then abandoned thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1999.
The report also claims that soldiers and police operating under a UN mandate in the war-torn country have abused children, raped...
Meta, owners of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has raised an alarm over a dangerous new malware strain hiding in bogus YouTube and WhatsApp apps.
The company in its latest Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report 2022, said the new Dracarys malware is being injected into fake versions of popular apps such...
A senior Kremlin official has reportedly met Western diplomats and intelligence chiefs in a bid to help end the war in Ukraine.
According to Mail Online, a source claimed that much of Moscow's elite are highly concerned about the trajectory of Russian president Vladimir Putin's invasion into the neighbouring country and...
A Nigerian teenager has made history.
The 16-year-old wonderkid, Uchegbu Obinna John-Paul from Imo State scored 9 As in the 2022 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams.
He also scored 331 in the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams.
Imo OAP Amb Pope Saviola Godwyn shared the news on his social media...
WhatsApp is introducing three privacy tweaks into the messaging app to “provide even more layers of protection”, the company announced on Tuesday.
In a blog post published on its website, the Meta-owned messaging service stated that the new feature is to give its users more control over their conversations on the...
A 20-year-old university student has been handed a 2-year jail sentence after taking pills that caused her to have an abortion.
The student who already has a two year old daughter when she became pregnant again at the age of 20, was charged with taking pills that caused her to have an...
Algeria, Nigeria and Niger have signed a memorandum of understanding on construction of a vast gas pipeline project offering Europe potential future alternatives to Russian supplies.
The Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) would transport billions of cubic metres of gas some 4,128 kilometres (2,565 miles) from Nigeria in West Africa, north...
Prosecutors are reportedly asking the federal court to seize about $28K from R Kelly's prison-inmate account since he has $140,000 in court-ordered fines.
In a letter obtained by the government from the Bureau of Prisons, the singer has “accumulated substantial funds in his inmate trust account,” which is used to...
Elon Musk has accused the social media platform, Twitter, of fraudulently holding back information about the company as part of a countersuit.
The countersuit by the billionaire and Tesla CEO alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract, and violation of a securities law in Texas, where Musk lives.
Musk's counterclaims...
Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has vowed to do all he can to re-sign Lionel Messi next summer when the PSG star's contract expires.
The Argentine playmaker, 35, exited the Nou Camp to join the French giants on a free transfer in 2021, ending his 21-year Barcelona career.
Laporta, who admitted he...
Hollywood actor, Johnny Depp has made about £3m in just a few hours through sale of his debut art work collection.
Hours after announcing the sale of his artworks on Instagram on Thursday, July 28, Depp sold 780 pieces through Castle Fine Art's 37 galleries, including in London's Covent Garden.
The...
Edo-based Clergyman, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has reacted to claims that he is diabolic and has had extramarital affairs with a number of actresses, both home and abroad.
Reports were rife online this week with claims that the clergyman who was enmeshed in a sex-scandal involving a Canadian-based lady, Stephanie Otobo, a...
Senator Smart Adeyemi, a lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District and the Chairman of the Senate Aviation Committee has said that Aviation fuel scarcity in the country is caused by wealthy Nigerians smuggling the product to other West African countries.
Lamenting that Nigeria's economy can't grow when people keep stealing, Adeyemi...
The mass resignation of software engineers in most commercial banks across the country for greener’s pasture abroad, is currently threatening digitisation in the banking sector, LEADERSHIP can exclusively reveal.
This is coming as a disincentive to the cashless banking initiative, where every banking transaction is expected to be digitised. However,...
The wife of a former Deputy Senate President, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu who alongside her husband are standing trial for allegedly plotting to traffic a Nigerian into the United Kingdom to harvest his kidney for their ailing daughter has been granted bail by the court
However, her husband, Senator Ike Ekweremadu...
Two Russian tourists and a Russian sports star were mauled and eaten by bears after their helicopter crashed in the Russian wilderness.
World junior biathlon champion Igor Malinovsky, 25, died alongside Zoya Kaygorodova, a businesswoman and mobile phone company boss Sergey Kolesnyak, 39.
Malinovsky was piloting the helicopter in the Kamchatka...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari, on Wednesday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him bail following the July 5th attack on Kuje custodial center by Boko Haram terrorists who freed scores of their members.
DailyTrust reports that Kyari and other officers of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)’s Intelligence Response...
Dana Airlines’ air transport licence (ATL) and air operator certificate (AOC) has been suspended indefinitely by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
This was announced in a statement released on Wednesday July 20 and signed by NCAA Director-General Musa Nuhu.
NCAA said the license was suspended after they “discovered that the airline is...
The Kedah state assembly in Malaysia has approved amendments to the state Islamic Family Enactment to raise the minimum marriage age for Muslim women to 18 years.
Speaking at the assembly this week, speaker Datuk Juhari Bulat said the amendment involved raising the age of marriage for women from 16...
Arnold Schwarzenegger told his son Joseph Baena he would stop financially supporting him once he graduated college.
The 74-year-old Terminator star had helped his son get through college, something which Joseph said he is very grateful for.
However, after college, he told his son, "You're on your own".
Joseph, 24, is an aspiring...
Pope Francis has named two nuns and a laywoman to the Vatican department that helps choose new bishops, the first time women have been allowed to serve on the body.
The Holy See Press Office published the Pope's latest appointments to the Dicastery in a statement on Wednesday, July 13.
The...
Court document has revealed that American singer R.Kelly is engaged to his long-time girlfriend and alleged victim, Joycelyn Savage.
The R&B singer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on sex trafficking charges and still has more charges pending
In a letter written to the judge ahead of R. Kelly’s sentencing, obtained...
Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights.
Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty to the separate federal civil rights charges in December.
He is already serving a 22-year state prison sentence for the on-duty murder of Mr Floyd,...
Donald Trump has taken to social media to celebrate Elon Musk pulling out of $44b deal to buy social media giant
The former president shared his thoughts on his own social network, Truth Social, on Friday evening, July 8, shortly after it emerged that Musk, 51, had withdrawn a $44 billion bid.
Musk,...
South Africans woke up this morning, July 6, to a sex tape of popular South African actor Sthembiso Khoza, better known as SK Khoza, performing oral sex on a woman.
The actor has been plagued by several scandals but this seems to take the cake and South Africans are having a...
The man suspected of killing six people and injuring more than a dozen others during a July 4th parade in Highland Park is a Donald Trump-supporting rapper.
Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III, 22, who goes by the moniker Awake the Rapper, boasts more than 16,000 listeners per month on Spotify and has...
A Russian journalist accused of posting 'sane people are for peace' about Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been locked in a Siberian clinical psychiatric hospital.
Maria Ponomarenko, a 44-year-old mother of two, is accused of spreading 'fake' news concerning Putin’s 'special military operation' in Ukraine.
One comment seen as against the law by...
R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in Brooklyn where he is being held following his sentencing to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
His lawyers who disclosed that the singer will be suing the federal prison housing him, insisted that there is no reason for Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention...
The death of Jayland Walker has sparked sparked outrage in the US state of Ohio after police shot the Black man 60 times.
Multitudes of protesters have thronged the streets to demand justice for the killing of the 25-year-old man.
Reports said Officials are preparing to release body cam footage of...
An American inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman...
A chieftain of the apex Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damien Okeke Okene, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in keeping Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, incarcerated.
Okene, who is Ohanaeze’s National Vice Chairman, said Buhari is aware that the Southeast would continue...
Russia’s second-richest man, Vladimir Potanin has been included in the UK Government’s latest wave of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
The UK Government also placed sanctions on Anna Tsivileva, Vladimir Putin’s first cousin, who is president of coal mining company, JSC Kolmar Group.
Tsivileva’s husband Sergey Tsivilev is Governor of the...
An India tailor was beheaded on camera in Rajasthan by two self-proclaimed 'Islamic warriors' after sharing a post in support of a politician who sparked global protests with controversial remarks about Prophet Mohammed.
The two self-proclaimed 'Islamic warriors visited Kanhaiya Lal's small shop in a crowded Udaipur market, pretending to be...
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who was convicted late last year for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, was sentenced today, June 28, to 20 years in prison.
"A sentence of 240 months is sufficient and no graver than necessary," U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan said while issuing...
The BET Awards, which celebrates Black excellence in music, culture, and sports took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, June 26.
Holywood actress, Taraji P. Henson hosted the event.
A-list stars slayed the red carpet with their stunning looks as they attended the event in several...
US President Joe Biden on Saturday, June 25, signed into law the most significant gun control bill in nearly 30 years less than 24 hours after it passed through Congress.
The Democrat signed the bipartisan gun safety bill, which was drafted in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo,...
Jubril Gawat, a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state on New Media, has defended All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu after a Bloomberg article about him.
Bloomberg had shared an article titled "Graft Allegations Dog Nigeria’s Main Presidential Hopefuls", centered of Peoples Democratic Party's presidential...
Eight medical personnel are to stand trial accused of criminal negligence in the death of legendary Argentinian footballer, Diego Maradona.
Maradona died in November 2020 of a heart attack in Buenos Aires, aged 60. He had been recovering at home from surgery on a brain blood clot earlier that month.
A few...
British police have arrested a Nigerian couple, one of whom is a former Senate politician, on suspicion of plotting to bring a child from Nigeria to the UK for organ harvesting.
Metropolitan police said that Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu and Ike Ekweremadu, who are 55 and 60 years old respectively,...
A suburban Minneapolis city has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused her gun for her Taser.
The settlement also includes changes in police policies and training involving traffic stops like the...
The Russian Defence Minister has claimed that 38 Nigerian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine have been killed in the war, while 32 others have returned to their country.
According to the data sighted by Sahara Reporters, Russia says Kiev's claim of 20,000 foreign mercenaries holding its defence is a lie, adding that it monitors...
The Qatari government has outlawed players and fans from having sex outside of marriage in the upcoming 2022 World Cup, with defaulters to be sentenced to seven years in prison.
Public drinking, parties, and other social events would also not be allowed during the tournament in the predominantly Muslim country.
According to the...
Taiwan scrambled jets to warn away 29 Chinese aircraft in its air defence zone, including bombers that flew south of the island and into the Pacific, in the latest uptick in tensions and largest incursion since late May.
Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory despite never being ruled...
Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 661 pounds (about 300 kilograms).
The gigantic fish took around a dozen men to haul to shore.
Named Boramy -- meaning "full moon" in the Khmer...
A United Kingdom High Court has ordered the closure of Salvation Proclaimer Ministries Limited, a church led by Nigeria-born Tobi Adegboyega, over alleged financial mismanagement and lack of transparency in its operations.
In a statement published to the UK government website on Friday, the church, popularly known as SPAC Nation,...
Elon Musk and two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, are facing a $258 billion lawsuit after an investor claimed he was “defrauded” by a Dogecoin “pyramid scheme.”
The investor, Keith Johnson, has named the entrepreneur, as well as his companies Tesla and SpaceX, in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, June...
A 41-year-old Nigerian national has been remanded in custody after being brought to Malta from the United Kingdom to face romance fraud scam and money laundering charges.
Johnson Anene, who lived in St Paul’s Bay before leaving for the UK, appeared in court on Wednesday morning, June 15, after being arrested in...
Lots of people are turning away from the news because it lowers their mood with depressing stories, new research has revealed.
The Reuters Institute's digital news report suggests that almost four in 10 (38%) say they often or sometimes avoid the news - up from 29% in 2017.
The report found...
Netflix has announced it will be recruiting participants for a reality TV show inspired by its most popular series of all time, Squid Game.
The South Korean thriller series tells the story of debt-ridden people competing for a huge cash prize in a deadly series of children's games.
It holds the...
The Police in Trinidad and Tobago have arrested a Nigerian national and two others for drug trafficking.
The trio appeared at the Tobago Magistrates’ Court on Friday, June 10, 2022, after they were charged with various drug related offences on Thursday.
The trio, Ugochukwu Ezenagu, Jaden Thompson, and Josiah Seepersadsingh, were arrested in connection with the...
West Ham defender, Kurt Zouma faces clearing canals in full view of the public after being sentenced to 180 hours of community service for animal cruelty.
The Premier League footballer, 27, was banned from keeping cats for five years after a video was shared showing him slapping and kicking his pet.
He was also fined nearly...
Harvey Weinstein will be charged by the Metropolitan Police with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in August 1996, prosecutors in Britain said today.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division, confirmed that Scotland Yard had been authorised to charge the ex-film producer.
The charges related to one...
