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The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, approved the granting of citizenship to 286 foreign nationals out of the 600 who applied. He disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, …

A Bill for an Act seeking to sanction public officers from seeking medical help abroad with public funds has passed the second reading in the House of Representatives. The House also placed N500 million fine and seven years imprisonment for any public official who violated the Act.Rep Sergius Ogun (PDP-Edo) who sponsored the Bill, while leading the debate on the …

…Diri tasks IOCs on scholarships for host communities Seven years after he left office, former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, revealed that he embarked on the Almajiri schools programme in the North while he was in office to infuse Western education curriculum into the Islamic education to make the pupils employable and check incessant crisis and insecurity. Jonathan stated this, yesterday, …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members in universities across the country will embark on another strike soon if the Federal Government fails to implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union last year. The Chairman of ASUU in the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Dr Biodun Olaniran, and  Secretary, Dr Toyin Abegunrin, who …

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) said on Monday that the law will run its course in the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu who is being prosecuted at the Federal High Court in over terrorism charges. Mr Malami, who appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ Monday evening, however, did not foreclose a political …

Over the decades threats of strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other sister unions are the bogeys that have continued to haunt our tertiary educational system. They started in the 1970s, and yet, no regime has found a lasting solution to them. The main cause of work stoppages is the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, reached between …

• Artificial scarcity caused by recall of dirty petrol, source claims• NARTO to withdraw haulage services over diesel price, operation cost Residents of the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, began the new week, yesterday, with some level of anxiety and confusion as fuel scarcity appeared in some parts of the state, especially on the Island axis.   With an estimated population …

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has blamed the Nigerian judiciary for the nagging problem of delay in the determination of high profile corruption cases in court. Mr Malami said this in an interview on Channels Television’s primetime programme, ‘Politics Today,’ Monday. Citing the case of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, whose trial at …

Aviation workers have suspended their planned industrial action billed to commence today. This followed a Memorandum of Settlement reached by the workers and the Federal Ministry of Aviation in the early hours of Tuesday. Both parties signed the agreement at the end of a conciliation meeting held at the instance of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. The meeting …

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has said there are reasonable grounds to proceed against a suspended celebrity police officer, Abba Kyari, who was fingered in a multi-million dollars fraud spearheaded by Ramon Abass, aka Hushpuppi. Mr Malami disclosed this while appearing on the Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Monday. The U.S. government had in July 2021, unveiled the charges against …