NMA Week: Okitipupa LG boss, Adesanya commends association for health care services

seeks more collaboration By Martins Fasusi The Chairman Okitipupa Local Government in Ondo State, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya, has commended the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, for it efforts on qualitative health services delivery. He gave the commendation at Ikoya Comprehensive Health Centre during the association’s free medical mission as part of activities lined up for the […]

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Buhari’s wife gets new aides, apologises over leaked video

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a new set of aides for his wife, Aisha. The appointments are with immediate effect. The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by her Director of Information, Suleiman Haruna. The appointees are Dr. Mairo Almakura, Special Assistant (African First Ladies Peace Mission); Muhammed Albishir, […]

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Recruitment scandal rocks Senate

• Leadership accused of sharing 100 job slots• Aggrieved lawmakers vow showdown• Commission cautions against police jobs Anger and suspicion are brewing in the Senate. These have been provoked by some members of the upper legislative chamber using their official positions to allegedly get job slots from government agencies. Already, the Senate committee charged with […]

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Labour denies issuing strike notice on N30,000 minimum wage

continues negotiation with FG today Both sides yield grounds towards healthy resolution Talks between the Federal Government and Labour will continue today over the consequential adjustment of the new N30,00 minimum wage. However, dousing the tension that had been gripping the industrial sector over allegedly impending total strike by workers with effect from today, Labour […]

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How I was denied access to villa apartment – Aisha Buhari

Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has confirmed that she was the one speaking angrily in a video that went viral after she was allegedly denied access to an apartment at the presidential villa by the family of her husband’s nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura. “I was the one in that video and the person you […]

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Nigerian problems cannot be blamed on the Church

By Nelson Fadoju Hear Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, an applied geophysicist: “AFTER INDEPENDENCE, IN ORDER TO BUILD A GREAT NATION, EACH COUNTRY WENT TO WORK._ *BUT IN NIGERIA, AFTER INDEPENDENCE (IN 1960), OUR PEOPLE WENT TO PRAY AND FAST.* SO, WHILE WE WERE PRAYING, *MALAYSIA CAME HERE AND TOOK […]

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Police rescue over 300, seal off ‘reformation centre’

The police have rescued over 300 children and youths from a small building called ‘reformation centre’ at Sabon Gari area of Daura, Katsina State, where the victims were subjected to abuse, sexual assaults, serious torture and various forms of inhuman treatment. The incident happened barely three weeks after another batch of about 500 boys and […]

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Makarfi tells workers to demand good governance, not money

A former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi has decried over monetisation in Nigeria, saying Nigerian workers should hold government accountable rather than always ask for money. Makarfi, who is a member of Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), stated this during the association’s 36th Plenary and Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was held at […]

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