Left – ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi •Workers insist on N30,000 minimum wage • Vow to disrupt flight operations, others As its tomorrow’s deadline for strike draws close, organised labour did not attend the conciliatory meeting with the Federal Government’s team in Abuja yesterday. It said it was not invited. In a related development, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to consider the rot his administration inherited. Buhari made the appeal when he received members of the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria led by Ambassador Oladapo Fafowora at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The appeal came barely 24 hours to […]
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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has chosen a former Commissioner for Works, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, as the running mate to its governorship candidate in 2019, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Chairman, Lagos APC, Mr Tunde Balogun, officially presented Hamzat on Sunday during a press conference at the party secretariat. The event […]
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The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has urged the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to remain focused and not be distracted by comments from agents of opposition parties. National President of the AYCF, Yerima Shettima, who gave the admonition while speaking to newsmen at the weekend in Kaduna said […]
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Bayelsa State Governor, Mr Henry Seriake Dickson, has reinstated all political appointees, who resigned their positions to contest the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and lost. The governor also reinstated all civil servants, who resigned to contest in the primaries to their former positions in the civil service. The Special Adviser to the […]
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Senior military officers bearing the remains of Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali (retd), which was recovered from an abandoned well in Guchwet village, Shen District of Plateau State…on Wednesday. The remains of late Major General Idris Alkali, which was found by a team of Nigerian Army on a search-and-rescue operation, was buried at Gudu Cemetery in Abuja […]
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The Commandant of the Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS), Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) detachment, Mr Talodabioluwa Alonge says that the health sector needs two million pints of blood yearly in anticipation of emergencies. However, according to him, only about 500,000 pints have been raised. Alonge disclosed this to newsmen on Saturday in Lagos, during […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed the National Assembly for the inability of his government to complete several critical infrastructural projects across the country. While receiving a delegation of Eminent and Respected Citizens of Niger State led by Lt. Gen. Garba Duba (Rtd) at the Presidential Villa, the president said tardiness in passage of budgets by […]
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Emir of Kano, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi, on Saturday said Nigerians must ensure they elect into public offices, leaders who “are educated and know the value of education.” He said Nigerians had made mistakes in the past by electing leaders without education, who subsequently could not give quality education when they got into the government. The […]
Continue ReadingPresident Buhari receiving the Attestation and Confirmation of his result from West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Registrar, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, at the State House, Abuja. Photo: Philip Ojisua Officials of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), in Abuja, have presented to President Muhammadu Buhari the attestation and confirmation of his 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result.The […]
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