Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that he never believed he could stay in office up to one year, following the political crisis that rocked the state shortly after he took office. Fubara was sworn into office on May 29, 2023 and by October 30 of the...
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After a four-hour meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly on Sunday evening in Abuja, the leadership of the Organised Labour says there is no going back on the nationwide industrial action slated to start on Monday, June 3, 2024. “For now, we don’t have the power...
The leadership of the National Assembly and Organised Labour made up of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Trade Union Congress (TUC), are currently in a crucial meeting ostensibly to forestall a nationwide strike on Monday. Also in attendance are some ministers and the Secretary to the Government of...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has appealed to the organised labour to consider students sitting for West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, as it plans an indefinite strike. The Head of National Office of WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, made the appeal in an interview with the News...
Senate has urged the Federal Government to continue the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers, following the yet to be concluded negotiations on minimum wage. President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio said this at the end of a four hour closed door meeting with leadership of the Nigeria...
The Power Generation Companies (GenCos), have appealed to the Federal Government and key stakeholders to settle electricity debts owned them for electricity generation to enable them remain in business. Retired Col. Sani Bello, the Board Chairman, Power Generation Companies said this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday....
South Africa’s governing African National Congress lost its 30-year-old outright majority in this week’s election, winning only 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, official results showed Sunday. President Cyril Ramaphosa and the leaders of most of the rival parties attended the announcement, but in a sign he intends...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has said he inherited more than 80 per cent infrastructural deficit from the immediate past administration of the state. Governor Adeleke disclosed this at a programme organised by the Osun Development Association in Lagos on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, visited Baga town in Kukawa Local Government Area on Sunday to address a reported threat by Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists against residents. The governor met with military officials to discuss strategies to prevent further...
One of the elders of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) in Port Harcourt Zone, Comrade Joseph Dagogo-Jack (JP) has admonished the leadership of the parent body especially the General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale not to thwart the...
The Minister of State for Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, has said that the student loan scheme is for youths to access interest-free facility for their educational pursuits in tertiary institutions. Olawande told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja that it was part of...
Mr Bright Ngene of the Labour Party (LP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to send a new team to conduct the June 8 rerun election for the Enugu South Urban Constituency. Ngene, who was the LP candidate in the 2023 General Election said he...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Large consignments of codeine-based syrup and Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis worth over Two Billion One Hundred and Eighty-Five Million Naira (N2,185,000,000.00) in street value have been intercepted at the Port Harcourt seaports, Onne and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja...
Members of the House of Representatives in the botched Third Republic have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the payment of their outstanding salaries and allowances. The former lawmakers from the South-West states of Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo and Lagos, made the plea during their meeting...
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, has said plans are ongoing to increase the number of Mining Marshal Corps from 60 to 100. The increase would be across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Alake said this in an...
An international television game show, “The Price is Right Nigeria”, is set to premiere in August. Mr Olatunbosun Olaegbe, Managing Director of Genesis Studios, the local production company of the show in Nigeria, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. According to Olaegbe, the television game...
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, has said the Federal Government would deploy technology for the surveillance of mining sites across the country. Alake said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. He said that the technology...
A civil rights activist and social critic, Sen. Shehu Sani, has said local government autonomy is the only way to strengthen governance at the grassroots and save council areas from paralysis. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly and served as Chairman, Senate Committee on...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Commissioner for Local Government And Chieftaincy Affairs, Bauchi State, Ahmed Aliyu Jalam, is dead. He died in a fatal auto crash on Saturday, June 1st, 2024 along Misau – Darazo highway. Jalam who was popularly called “Maikankana” died at the of 60. Meanwhile,...
The Tinubu Stakeholders Forum (TSF) is drumming support for the Federal Government’s decision to take its advocacy for local government autonomy to the Supreme Court. In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Ahmad Sajoh and Secretary Josiah Afolabi, the group was emphatic that full autonomy for local...