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An unidentified man died in Logos Monday after two vehicles collided with a moving train.   The dead man was being driven by another man in an SUV Toyota Highlander when the vehicle collided with the train at   at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos. The driver sustained injuries.   The second vehicle, a commercial bus […]

…as ASUU vows no resumption without deal on 2009 pact     The resumption of Lagos State University scheduled for Monday, September 14, suffered a setback as the workers’ unions aborted the move, locking the gates against both teachers and students.   Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently approved the resumption of final-year undergraduate students of Lagos […]

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 […]

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 […]

  There is some disquiet in Nigeria’s economic policy circles over a dispute between the central bank and a think-tank that has for years proffered guidance to those on the corridors of power on how to run the economy.   A series of concerns raised by The Nigerian Economic Summit Group on some monetary policies […]

  Ishaq Abubakar, who was scheduled to fly to Dubai had his flight aborted and was handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrest with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine cards and four Subscriber Identification Module cards concealed inside cartons of noodles.   The intending passenger, with passport number A08333717 was […]