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Nigeria’s health sector workers, under the umbrella of Joint Health Sector Unions, will begin a nationwide strike from midnight of Sunday, September 13, 2020.   This follows the deadlock of a meeting between the union and government officials over unpaid salaries and Covid-19 hazard allowances.   In a statement on Sunday, JOHESU declared that leaders […]

The Udawa farming community in Kaduna state was thrown into fear as bandits kidnapped 16 farmers, including children, on bush paths to the farm, Vanguard newspaper reported Sunday.    Uduwa village is located along the Birnin Gwari highway in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.   “They were on their way to the farm […]

The former governor of Edo State and immediate past Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has described using what he said about Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the last governorship election against him (Oshiomhole) as a lazy man’s argument, Vanguard reported Monday.   He said the most important thing is that he cannot […]

Kassim Abiola and Aliyu Abiola, two sons of late Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, have approached a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja Division seeking N100m in damages following their arrest and detention over a robbery incident at their father’s residence on September 2. In addition to […]

Members of the National Assembly who were scheduled to resume next Tuesday, September 15 after a two-month annual vacation, will now resume on Tuesday, September 29, according to a notice issued late Friday afternoon.   The laconic notice entitled: “Special Announcement” by the acting clerk to the National Assembly, Ojo Amos Olatunde, gave no specific […]

The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Muhammad Babandede, has given travel advisory for China, Europe and North America bound passengers due to COVID-19. Babandede gave the advisory in a statement through the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO) Mr Sunday James on Friday in Abuja.   He said that the directives were necessary to […]

  The continuous silence by President Muhammadu Buhari over the jaw-dropping revelations of monumental corruption, financial recklessness and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), though hardly surprising, is scandalous and unacceptable, given that Nigeria’s diverse and growing security challenges are partly rooted in widespread poverty, which in turn, are outcomes of pervasive corruption. […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is slowly becoming a failed state and a basket case that urgently needs to be pulled from the brink of collapse, Punch reported on Saturday.   He said this in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech titled, ‘Moving Nigeria Away from Tipping Over’ at a consultative dialogue attended […]

For the third time since about the middle of August, the Department of State Security has invited Dr. Obadiah Mailafia to appear before it on Monday, September 14.   This is a continuation of his grilling by the spy Police over his disclosure on a radio programme that he and some leaders were informed by […]