The UN General Assembly on Tuesday held a High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace, focused on building resilience and a fair recovery against the continued ravages of COVID-19. Opening the event, the President of the General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, said “the global pandemic has arguably brought humanity closer together”. “Rarely have we been so […]

With NAF’s Alpha Jets and Fighter Helicopters sustaining attacks on locations of bandits in Zamfara and Kaduna States in the ongoing military operations, the recently Inducted Super Tucano Aircraft are being test run by the Nigerian Airforce (NAF). The Minister of Defence, retired General Bashir Magashi made the disclosure to journalists after a three-hour security […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The Federal  Government has reached a truce with aggrieved health workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), an assembly of healthcare professions. A statement issued by Charles Akpan, Deputy Director, Press, in the Ministry of Labour and Employment said that an understanding was reached by both parties after a […]

By Bashir Bello Gunmen suspected to be bandits have launched a fresh attack on Bakori Housing Units in Bakori local government area of Katsina State and abducted a former Director of National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Ahmed Abdulkadir and his 15-year-old daughter, Laila. In another development, the bandits invaded Isa Kaita College of Education, IKCOE, in Dutsinma where it kidnapped the […]

The Federal Government says no doctor or health worker in Nigeria is owed monthly salary. The Minster of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said this at the opening of the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries with the leadership of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) on Tuesday in Abuja. Ngige said the […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that contrary to the alleged propaganda by the striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) no doctor or health worker in Nigeria was being owed monthly salary.  The Minister stated this at the opening of the […]

By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki Ebonyi State Police Command said it has arrested suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB/Eastern Security Network (ESN) that allegedly murdered 7 innocent persons in the State. Briefing newsmen at the Command’s headquarters in Abakaliki, the State Commissioner, CP Aliyu Garba explained that “in the early hours of August […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that tackling hate speech and misinformation has become the responsibility of all major stakeholders, especially Parliaments around the world, as the negative consequences of the two can only be imagined. Gbajabiamila said parliaments must find in all regulatory or […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Centre Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Tuesday, launched Strengthening Accountability Networks Among Civil Society, SANCUS, Project, to fight ‘dirty money’ in Nigerian politics. The SANCUS project was unveiled in Abuja by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, at a working Group Meeting, which is being implemented by Transparency International Secretariat and […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has declared that he has no preferred candidate for the vacant position of Vice-Chancellor, VC, at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, and would not interfere in the process. Sanwo-Olu, who had earlier affirmed his position, restated this while receiving members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors […]

By Elizabeth Adegbesan Nigerian Railway Corporation generated N1.08 billion revenue from passengers in the second quarter of the year (Q2’21). This represents a 237 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in revenue when compared with N320.3 million generated in Q2’20. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this today in its Railway Transportation Data Report for […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has described the allegation that the state accounts’ we’re frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as a joke taken too far. The governor, who described the allegation of misappropriation of the federal government bailout funds to the state as a lie […]

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Tuesday, at the Executive Chamber of the Lion Building, Government House, Enugu, swore in Mrs. Ukamaka Alinta Oriaku as member of the reconstituted Enugu State Judicial Service Commission, which was recently inaugurated by the governor. 

The minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami says President Mohammadu Buhari has empowered only security institutions in the country to gain access to people information without confronting the ministry, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC or the service providers to make their work much easier.