Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said the North is in the process of rebuilding itself and is not prepared to play second fiddle in a nation where it clearly enjoys numerical strength. Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the NEF, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said this while delivering a keynote address at the maiden Maitama Sule […]
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Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Ngige, has frowned on the failure of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors to comply with the court order directing them to suspend their strike and resume, describing their action as contempt of court. The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja had on Friday ordered the doctors to resume […]
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Commissioner of police in Lagos, CP Hakeem Odumosu •Area boys foil attempt to steal gold-made church covenant A fight among two rival groups of hoodlums in Mushin, yesterday led to the death of one ‘Askari’, while several others sustained injuries. Eyewitness accounts said the crisis had lingered for over five years and was majorly between […]
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Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, was on Sunday heavily criticised for dismissing moves by Lagos and Rivers states to start collecting the Value Added Tax directly. Groups, including the Pan Niger Delta Forum, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and civil rights groups, in separate interviews, berated him over his comment on VAT. They slammed Masari as the […]
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• Appeal panel begins sitting over APC council congresses in Oyo today • Group tasks women, youths on critical participation in 2023 elections Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has described the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the “Capone” of the party in South-West. He reiterated the stance of […]
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FG begs medics for peaceful resolution NMA may join fray as ultimatum expires today The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has appealed against the National Industrial Court’s judgment ordering its members to resume duties. The doctors ares sustaining their seven-week-old nationwide strike. Amid these, the body would elect a new president this Friday at […]
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• Police intensify efforts to arrest suspected killers of policemen in Onitsha • Courts shut down in Imo as lawyers protest killing of spokesman • 26 security officials, 11 others killed by non-state actors in two weeks There was a resurgence of violence in the Southeast yesterday, after weeks of respite in killings and attacks […]
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Hospital demanded N.6m to admit him, denied him oxygen Doctor on duty frustrated foreign consultant to attend to him Middle Belt Forum carpets Abuja hospitals, alleges conspiracy An account of how a former presidential candidate, columnist, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia died of to a yet to be disclosed […]
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Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has ordered compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for all cabinet members, public servants, health workers and others in the State. He explained that the directive is part of the measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the state. This was contained in a memo from the office of the Head of […]
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The second batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft has departed the United States of America en route to Nigeria. A presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi, posted this on his Facebook page on Sunday. In a link shared by the presidential aide, the fighter planes were said to have refuelled at Rectrix in the Worcester Regional […]
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