The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said that any proposed increase in allowances and salaries by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that is not in sync with the National Salaries and Wages Commission will not scale through. The minister also advised the union to work with what was obtainable with […]
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Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor The military on Friday assured Nigerians that its personnel were not contemplating sacking the government. It equally warned politicians to desist from dragging its officers and men into issues that had to do with politics. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, said these at a virtual […]
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama say Polish officials bar entry, demand visas, authorisation letters We’re hiding in bunkers, Internet down, can’t get food, fuel –Students The Federal Government on Friday said there can be no evacuation of Nigerians in Ukraine until the airports in the European country, which is under attack by Russia, […]
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Ex-Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, on Friday said his ambition to succeed the incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari in 2023, was seeking a job that requires brain and focus and not one that requires strength. He spoke at the palace of Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, when he visited the monarch, as he continues […]
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I was chained for 10 days for refusing to prostitute – auxiliary nurse 17,414 Nigerians return from Libya in seven years A chartered Boeing 737-800 aircraft- Al Buraq, landed at the cargo wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, Wednesday night, with 159 stranded Nigerians returnees from Libya, alighting from the air stair. Two […]
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By Femi Mimiko What bears emphasis in the carefully choreographed extant conflict over Ukraine is the profundity of Russia’s position. It simply says that continuous eastward expansion of NATO is at variance with its own national security interests. I argue that such a claim is, of course, much stronger than the logic of Ukrainian sovereignty […]
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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday in Abuja said he was not nursing any ambition in 2023 but would support any candidate who emerged from the zoning arrangement, be it from the South. El-Rufai said this during the weekly ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The […]
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File photo: Farouk Lawan in court The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, reduced the jail term of a former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, from seven to five years, following his appeal of the earlier sentence. Lawan was convicted by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on June 22, […]
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No man qualifies as a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. The words of the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates. Wheat and other grains are back at the heart of geopolitics following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both countries play a major role in the global agricultural market. African leaders must pay attention. […]
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Adamawa State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Barde A pregnant housewife has been remanded for allegedly kidnapping herself and collecting a ransom from her lover. The suspect, who hails from Wauru Jabbe in the Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly abducted herself and collected the sum of N2m from one mallam of the Federal […]
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