GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its two-week warning strike. The universities union also grant the Federal Government a one-month window to address its demands. The National President of ASUU, Prof. Chris Piwuna, made this known in an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Piwuna,…
Hours after the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Omoyele Sowore led some protesters in parts of Abuja demanding freedom for the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the separatist leader, in a dramatic turn on Tuesday, agreed to enter his defence. The detained…
There was mild drama during Tuesday’s plenary session in the Nigerian Senate as Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan confronted Senate President Godswill Akpabio after being denied the chance to speak on the issue of abortion. Senator Natasha, visibly displeased, pleaded to be heard, saying, “Mr. Senate President, please may I speak. I’m a woman, and abortion has…
The Department of State Services has alerted the Nigerian Army to an alleged plot by members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province to launch coordinated attacks on communities in Ondo and Kogi states. In a confidential letter addressed to the Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, and sighted by PUNCH, the DSS…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted six passengers, including three staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), en route to Anambra State for the November 8 governorship election. The three INEC staff members, identified as Chinenye Orji, Adamaka Anih, and Catherine Temaugee, were travelling from Abuja to Anambra when they were ambushed…
An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Kuje, on Tuesday, remanded Mr. Alloy Ejimakor, a member of the legal team representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in Kuje prison. Ejimakor was remanded alongside Kanu’s younger brother, Emmanuel (otherwise known as Fineboy), and 10 others that were arrested while protesting…
The Commissioner of Police (CP), Ondo State Command, Adebowale Lawal, has ordered the immediate redeployment of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Enu-Owa Division in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. Lawal said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Akure by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Olushola Ayanlade. The CP…
A magistrates’ court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, on Tuesday remanded a bishop, Onyeagoziri Ndubueze, in the Abakaliki Correctional Centre for alleged sexual abuse of a 22-year-old female member of his church. The chief magistrate, Nike Chima, ordered his remand after the magistrate rejected the bail application by the defence counsel, Friday Agbom. The magistrate told…
Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, a senior official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), has forfeited a $2.5 million mansion in Los Angeles, California, to the U.S. government after being convicted of money laundering. A preliminary forfeiture order issued on October 3, 2025, by Judge John Walter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District…
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced opposition figure, Fethi Ghares, to two years in prison over a Facebook post judged to have insulted President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, his lawyer told AFP. Ghares, a secular leftist opposition figure, was sentenced “to two years in prison for remarks concerning the president”, lawyer Abdelghani Badi said. He said…