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The Board of Trustees of the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation has appointed Mrs. Polly Alakija as Director General, effective August 1, 2022. In a statement by the Director General of Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation, Jacqueline W Farris, she stated that Polly is an experienced board-level executive with a demonstrable history of sound project management and leadership skills. She served as …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have called for a bill to regulate how children of public officers enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria.  Prof. Kingdom Tombra, Chairman of the University of Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island chapter of the union, made this known at the solidarity protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday …

• Wase: DSS submitted 44 security reports before the Kuje prison attack• Attack on Presidential Guards troops: Army Lieutenant, five soldiers missing in action• Terrorists assembling weapons to attack Buhari’s state, FCT, Lagos, says NSCDC• Appointing Northerners as heads of security institutions worsened the situation, says HURIWA• FG procures six attack helicopters from Turkey Amid glaring danger lurking in the Federal …

NNPC Limited dismissed reports that it offered a voluntary retirement exit package to about ‘500’ employees Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCLimited) announced Tuesday that it has no plan to lay off workers as a result of its recent transition. The NNPC Limited said this in a statement by GarbaDeen Muhammad, the group general manager, group public affairs division of the company. …

The Nigeria Labour Congress and its affiliate unions on Tuesday defied warnings by the Federal Government and took to the streets of major cities in the country to protest against the failure of the Federal Government to resolve the five-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Specifically, the NLC said the money the two major political parties – …

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, on Tuesday said the Department of State Services, DSS, shared 44 intelligence reports before the attack on Kuje Prisons. Wase spoke on the floor of the green chamber during the plenary, according to report by the Vanguard. He made the remarks while speaking on a motion sponsored by Abubakar Yallemen from …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to, in the interest of Nigerian students, expedite actions to immediately end the five-month-old strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The governor gave the charge when he received members of the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), who were …

As a two-day solidarity rally of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in support of ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, commences this morning, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams has directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, DPOs and all tactical commanders to personally lead confidence building patrols around the length and breadth of the state. Protesters …

NLC protesters at Kwara govt house…on Tuesday. Photo: Tunde Oyekola The Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress has joined the national body of the union to stage a rally to press home the demand of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on university revitalisation. The protesting union members included NLC, ASUU, Non-Academic Staff Union, Senior Staff Association of …

The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District and the Chairman of the Senate Aviation Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has said that wealthy Nigerians stealing and exporting the Jet –A-1 are responsible for the scarcity of aviation fuel in the country. Adeyemi, who spoke to The PUNCH, said that this situation had added to the problem of lack of refineries that the …