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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says all state councils where salary liabilities of up to three months exist will apply no pay, no work’ rule. NLC President Ayuba Wabba made this known when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum on Sunday in Abuja.  He said, “We have given instructions to all […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday reiterated that he can never go back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obasanjo made the assertion while speaking to journalists in Jalingo, Taraba, during the assessment of some projects initiated by his administration in the state. The former President dramatically terminated his membership of PDP in February last […]

Nnamdi Kanu, embattled leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has written another letter to the British government begging for help.  Kanu’s letter dated August 16 and sent to the British High Commissioner by his lawyer, read, “In the face of this conspiratorial plot by the Nigerian government to hang our client at all cost […]

A group of Christians in Nigeria, under the aegis of Patriotic Christian Youths of Nigeria (PCYN), on Friday raised the alarm that the candidate of TEKAN/ECWA, Dr. Jeremiah Gado, who was disqualified in the last election of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was spearheading the purported plan to “split the body of Christ by […]

The Federal Government has been told to place teachers in public schools on a special salary structure to improve the quality of their service. Mr Jimoh Abdulrasaq, an Ilorin based legal practitioner disclosed this in Ilorin on Friday. He said that the education system in the country was needs to be improved. Abdulrasaq said conscious […]

Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Friday, resigned from his position on the campaign, the Republican presidential nominee said in a statement Friday. “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign,” Trump said. “I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, […]Read More

Katsuya Takasu a Japanese doctor has been granted permission to donate the sum of US$390,000 to the Nigeria Under-23 football team, as a reward for their performance at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics. The Japanese surgeon made public his intention to donate the money few days ago. A document obtained by Owngoalnigeria, showed he has […]

The Federal Government has launched an investigation into the possible involvement of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, with the spate of bombings that have crippled the country’s oil industry and affected its power generation capabilities. A top government source, quoting intelligence reports, told Premium Times that it has now been established that […]

Nigeria’s contingents to the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, Team Nigeria took delivery of their much awaited kits after most of the athletes have concluded their events with some already back to their bases.  The kit came in on Thursday, just three days to the end of the games which will end on […]

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Thursday described as a rape of democracy and miscarriage of justice, the judgment of Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court Abuja, thar sacked the Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu. The appellant court, which restored the mandate of Governor Ikpeazu as the duly elected governor of […]

The disaster unfolding in Bama, a town in Borno state, north-east Nigeria, where children are starving to death without food, clean water and medical care is the most tragic manifestation of the humanitarian fallout of the Boko Haram insurgency and the Nigerian government’s militarized response to the crisis that now impacts millions, according to the […]

The Nigerian Navy has rescued a British merchant tanker identified as MT Vectis Osprey from sea pirates. This was disclosed on Thursday by the Director of Information of the Navy, Commodore Christian Ezekobe. Ezekobe said a Navy warship, NNS Nwamba, rescued the vessel which came under attack from the pirates 20 nautical miles off the […]