These are the Top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Saturday 27 August 2022, reviewed by The Informant247 Nigeria News.
KASU condemns ASUU President’s ‘quack university’ comment, directs members to withdraw
The management of the Kaduna State University, on Saturday, berated the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke over his comment that some State-owned universities in Nigeria are quacks.
2023: Tinubu will fix Nigeria like Lagos – Former Police IG Okiro
Former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared support for the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu.
Okiro said the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate fixed Lagos and will do the same as Nigeria’s leader.
He made the comment in Abuja at the unveiling of the planning committee for a support group, ‘Defect Together Movement for Tinubu-Shettima 2023.’
ASUU President a careless talker, state universities not quacks – UNIOSUN VC
The Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Professor Odunayo Clement Adebooye has referred to the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke as a careless talker, for calling state universities that are not on strike ‘quacks’.
I intentionally wore sneakers to NBA conference – Shettima opens up
The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has reacted to the manner people criticized his outfit when he attended the conference of the Nigeria Bar Association in Lagos.
Gunmen kill driver, abduct two in Katsina
A commercial driver, simply identified as Bello, was on Wednesday evening, killed by terrorists during an ambush along the Katsina/Jibia highway in Katsina State.
The attackers kidnapped two travellers, Babangida Kachile, 56, and Halimat Shuaibu, 50.