Nigeria will crush bandits, won’t hire mercenaries – FG

President Muhammadu Buhari, R, confers with the NSA Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno during the Security briefing at the State House held at the Council Chambers Abuja The Federal Government on Thursday declared that it will not engage the deployment of mercenaries to prosecute the ongoing fight against insurgents, and other forms of insecurity especially bedeviling the […]

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3,000 nurses dead, Covid exodus looming

At least 3,000 nurses have been killed by Covid-19, the global nurses’ federation said Thursday as it warned of a looming exodus of health workers traumatised by the pandemic. Exactly one year on since the World Health Organization (WHO) first described Covid-19 as a pandemic, the International Council of Nurses said burn-out and stress had […]

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Fayemi, deputy, health workers vaccinated

Fayemi being vaccinated Ekiti State Governor  Kayode Fayemi, his deputy, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi and some frontline health workers yesterday received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Fayemi received a dose of the vaccine administered by the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji  Filani. His Wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; Speaker of the House of Assembly, Funminiyi […]

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Return £4.2m Ibori loot to Delta State, Reps orders FG

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa Clark gives FG seven-day ultimatum to hand over money Falana urges FG to toe same line when it returned monies to Plateau, Bayelsa SERAP seeks clarification over planned use of Ibori loot, says over $600m Abacha loot was earmarked for same projects Pay returned money to Delta varsity students, Sowore […]

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We won’t negotiate with bandits, terrorists – FG

President Muhammadu Buhari, R, confers with the NSA Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno during the Security briefing at the State House held at the Council Chambers Abuja The Federal Government has declared it won’t negotiate with terrorists and bandits. National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), who stated this during the weekly ministerial briefing at […]

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Wakilin: OPC blasts Fani-Kayode over ‘misleading’ claims

Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Oyo State chapter, has told the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, to produce to the whole world, the real Fulani warlord terrorising the people of Ayete, Igangan and Ibarapa areas of Oyo State. The chapter through the Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oguntade, popularly called Olumo, said the claims of the former […]

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We will kill bill on wage negotiation – Senate, House

The protesting workers at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, Ikeja…yesterday Photo: Omosehin Moses A bill seeking to re-order minimum wage negotiation will not see the light of day, federal lawmakers have said. They gave the promise to Labour leaders yesterday during a protest march at the National Assembly complex in Abuja. “The bill […]

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NLC declares nine governors anti-workers

The Nigeria Labour Congress has declared nine governors as “anti-workers”. President Muhammadu Buhari signed the wage Act in 2019. The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba,  said one of them was using the sponsor of the bill, Garba Muhammad, against the interests of workers. Muhammad represents Sabon Gari Constituency of Zaria, Kaduna State, in the House of […]

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Strike paralyses Ondo hospitals over half pay

Hospitals owned by the Ondo State Government have been shut down owing to the strike embarked on by the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP). Doctors and nurses in the employ of the government have been on strike since last month over payment of half salary for November and December 2020 and other sundry […]

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Bandits killed 937, abducted 1,972 abducted in Kaduna last year

El-Rufai says criminals must be wiped out immediately and without hesitation, rules out amnesty for bandits Bandits killed 937 persons in Kaduna State last year, a report submitted yesterday by the Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs has shown. According to the Commissioner in charge of the ministry Samuel Aruwan, 1,972 residents were kidnapped […]

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