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Nigerian Christian pilgrims in Jordan have prayed for peace in Nigeria, following the prevailing security and economic challenges confronting the nation. A group of pilgrims led by a tour guide, Mueen Akvoush and the Executive Chairman, Kogi Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. Samuel Oluwafemi, visited Gedara, where Jesus Christ cast demons out of a madman possessed of an unclean spirit. The …

A legal expert, Abdullahi Umar iliyasu Esq, has said that if Nigerians abide by the provision of the constitution and the relevant laws relating to revenue sharing, Federal character principles enshrined in the constitution and address the issue of winner takes all in administering the affairs of the Federation and its states constituents equitably, the high temperature blown up by …

..Begs consultants not to join the strike Following the breakdown of conciliation in the industrial dispute between the Federal Government and resident doctors, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has handed over the dispute between the two to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria for adjudication. The striking Doctors under the aegis of National Association of Resident …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday returned to Nigeria from London, the United Kingdom after joining world leaders in making a firm commitment to increase funding of the education sector at the recent Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom. President Buhari left Nigeria for the United Kingdom on July 26 to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global …

• No generalised lockdown for now, govt insists• Nigeria records highest daily tally since February• Lagos reactivates COVID-19 oxygen treatment, sample collection centres• Doctors strike: FG insists on no-work, no-pay policy• Dependence on imported vaccines is playing with nation’s health, says GMLD• Urges government to resuscitate vaccine centre in Yaba Amid rising cases of COVID-19 infections across the country, the …

The Nigerian government has appealed to the striking resident doctors to return to work while talks continue on the areas of disagreement. The health minister, Osagie Ehanire, made the appeal during the 18th ministerial briefing, which was held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Thursday. The minister, who said Nigeria could be the only country in the world where doctors …

Hundreds of commuters and articulated vehicles were Friday stranded in Igarra and environs in Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo as the indigenes protested their diversion from the Okpella to Okenne axis of the Benin – Auchi-Lokoja Highway as a result of its dilapidated state and the diversion of traffic to the Auchi-Igarra-Ibillo road which has also become dilapidated because …

The Nigeria Medical Association NMA has chided both Federal and State Governments for the lingering strike action of the National Association of Resident Doctors which had paralyzed hospitals across the country to the detriment of the Nigerian people. It warned that it would join forces if resident doctors were not paid all their due wages and the strike lingers. NMA …

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has asked doctors in the country to be humble and carry themselves with dignity, rather than try to compete with God. His statement is in reaction to the ongoing strike by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). Mr Ngige, while speaking at the 2nd Summit of Medical Elders Forum (MEF) with …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised alarm over fake online registration portal for Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The commission raised the alarm in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Friday. Okoye said that INEC attention had been drawn to a post, which is currently …