The Senate, Tuesday, passed the National Senior Secondary Education Commission Bill, 2022. The bill’s passage was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary). Senator Akon Eyakenyi (PDP – Akwa-Ibom South), in a presentation on behalf of the Committee’s Chairman, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam (APC – Yobe East), said […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, began it’s three day nationwide warning protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU in the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Workers against President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government. In Lagos, the protesters were led by NLC Chairman, Mrs Agnes Sessi, […]

The Ogun State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has promised to join the national leadership of the Union in shutting down the country, if the federal government failed to resolve all issues surrounding the on-going strike actions embarked on by various unions in the nation’s public universities

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle, has advised Nigerians to consider the myriads of problems confronting the country and choose leaders that can confront them, irrespective of religion or creed. Alhaji Ibikunle, who is the Chairman of National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), said the problems facing the nation knew no […]

The National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has decried low turnout in the collection of the Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, by residents in Rivers State

By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR Cross River state government has concluded plans for the commercial rollout of vibrated electric poles from the factory set up by governor Ben Ayade led administration in Akamkpa Local Government Area of the State. The State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, made the disclosure on Tuesday during a tour of the factory […]

Police in Kogi State said they have foiled a suspected bomb attack in the State following the successful detonation of an object at the State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ebonyi chapter says it will not stop talking until the federal and state government fulfilled the 2009 promises for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that ASUU had been on industrial action for over five months over the Federal Government’s failure to […]

Festus Okoye Esq., National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, of the  Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared that Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, are not recognised as members of INEC.

By Ugochukwu Alaribe UMUAHIA – Abia state government has dismissed the alleged sale of a mission school, Wilcox Memorial Comprehensive Secondary School to a former deputy Governor of the state, Chief Eric Nwakanma as hogwash. Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, told Vanguard that the former Governor Theodore Orji administration had in […]