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SSANU, NASU members seek prayers over unpaid entitlements

SSANU, NASU members seek prayers over unpaid entitlements

By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe GOMBE — Concerned members of the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have urged the unions’ national leadership to declare nationwide interdenominational prayers over delayed salaries and other outstanding entitlements. The members made the request in an open letter […]
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Deregulation: Labour protest  cripples Kano

Deregulation: Labour protest cripples Kano

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and their allies in the civil society organisations yesterday in Kano, threatened to shut down the country should government fail to address their demands as they resumed the suspended anti-deregulation protest rallies.

Akunyili has no power to void NCC licences —Aondoakaa

Akunyili has no power to void NCC licences —Aondoakaa

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Michael Aondoakaa may have advised President Umaru Yar’Adua that the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, is not vested with the powers by the nation’s laws to cancel licences issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), , in what may pave the way for the resolution of the impasse that trailed last month’s sale of three slots of 2.3GHz spectrum by the telecoms regulator.

NGO urges FG to partner Oba Group on power supply

NGO urges FG to partner Oba Group on power supply

Speaking during a courtesy call of the group to Mr. Fredrick in Udu, Don Emmanuel Onose, national coordinator, IBPS, said, their aim of visiting was that they heard he invented an off grid hydro generating plant and that it was already in use.

How democracy can be sustained— Imohe

How democracy can be sustained— Imohe

By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — Barely one month after the nation celebrated 10 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, a security Chief and Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador E. E. Imohe has warned of dangers that have to be overcome to ensure its sustenance.