Plateau Massacre: Police arrest 20 suspects, deploy tactical units
No fewer than 20 suspects have been arrested in connection with the massacre of about 22 travellers in Plateau State on Saturday, Police have claimed.
Osinbajo condoles with Revd Badejo, Fawehinmi families
Says late Foursquare General Overseer used gospel to transform lives Calls late Gani’s son, ‘one of us’ While visiting Lagos today, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, called on the families of the late legal icon, Chief Gani Fawehinmi – whose son, Mohammed, just died, and the former General Overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church, late […]
Synthesising the thesis of post Buhari APC
Buni’s fellow North-East governor of PDP extraction said in recent past that APC is all about President Muhammadu Buhari and as he concludes his tenure come 2023 the reality will prevail on the party.
DOCTORS’ STRIKE: We are left with confrontation — Uyilawa, NARD President
Amid fresh wave of coronavirus pandemic and raging cholera, medical doctors under the auspices of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, have been on strike over unpaid salaries and poor benefits in the last 14 days. Despite the effects of the strike on Nigerians seeking healthcare in the various hospitals, there is no end in sight to the protracted strike.
COVID-19: Foundation seeks to strengthen food security, education, health care system
By Fortune Eromosele, Abuja Peeved by the heightened spate of food insecurity, illiteracy and ill-health care system in the country, a humanitarian foundation, Mee and Cee Foundation, has opted for feeding households, granting scholarships to underprivileged students as well as providing needed support to the less privileged that cannot afford quality health care. The intentions […]
FG in last-minute moves to avert consultant doctors strike
In a bid to avert looming strike by the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MEDCAN, the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission, NSIWC, has halted movement of consultants from CONMESS to CONUAS salary scale.
International Youth Day : CSO train 48 person’s on Climate Smart, Sustainable Cultivation in C’River
A Solution Oriented Civil Society Organisation, Solidaridad West Africa has trained 48 youths on climate Smart and sustainable oil Palm Cultivation.
DOCTORS’ STRIKE: Sultan intervenes, tells FG not to abandon negotiations
President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has begged resident doctors to suspend their industrial strike in view of the devastating effects of COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of cholera in some parts of the country.
IPoB cancels Monday sit-at-home, reschedules exercise
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has suspended the sit-at-home protest it ordered in the South-East region, saying the civil action would now hold on days its detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, appears in court.
Why we have ‘boy-boy’ governors in Nigeria — Attah, elder statesman
Elder statesman, Obong Victor Attah, remains one of Nigeria’s most consistent and vociferous voices for the return to the parliamentary system of government to guaranty true federalism, resource control by states and ideological politics as a means of promoting stability, peace and unity in the nation’s polity.
2023: How Secondus survived plot to remove him
For the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a party that prides itself as the biggest political platform in Africa, last week provided some sort of relief after weeks of bitter acrimony amongst its biggest stalwarts.
