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*Gas reserves now 206.53tcf— DPR *Nigeria can hit 45,000MW— GE The Federal Government has charged oil and gas industry operators to move beyond conferences and workshops to take concrete steps to develop Nigeria’s huge natural gas reserves. Stock image of gas flaring. This was as the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, announced that Nigeria’s proven gas reserves have grown to …

Gunmen Thursday night attacked the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, shooting and kidnapping some staff and students. At least one person has been confirmed dead from the shooting. According to a statement issued by the publicity secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) of the institution, Aliyu Kofa, one student was killed while two lecturers of the polytechnic …

The federal government is set to begin an awareness programme on group life insurance policy for all categories of civil servants whose salaries are treasury funded. This is part of measures instituted by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, to enlighten Nigerian workers on their entitlements. Vanguard reports that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Wednesday suspended its two-month-old nationwide strike. ASUP’s National Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi Yalwa, made the disclosure in a press statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said the suspension of the strike would take effect from Thursday (June 10). ASUP had embarked on a nationwide strike on April 6, to press home its demands. The union’s …

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has earmarked no fewer than 21,000 prospective retirees to be registered soon on its newly developed online enrollment application across the Federation. Mr Anyim Nyerere, Commissioner, Technical, PenCom, said this at a workshop organised by the commission for Pension Desk Officers (PDO’s) on Enrollment Application on Wednesday in Lagos. Nyerere said that 11,000 prospective retirees …

President Muhammadu Buhari has hinted at his government’s plan to revive cattle grazing routes and grazing areas set across the country in the 1960s, suggesting an opposition to the open grazing ban announced by the 17 southern governors. The southern governors had in May declared a ban on open grazing, asking the mainly Fulani herders to practise a settled form of …

…Inaugurates 6. 05km upgraded Ijede Itamaga-Ewu Elepe Road Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, presented various cheques worth N500 million to owners of properties demolished to give way for the construction of the ongoing Igbogbo-Igbe Road Expansion Road project. . Among the affected property owners who received the cheques in life: the Nollywood actor, Babatunde Omidina, popularly called …

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (NJC) on Wednesday suspended its nationwide strike which paralysed the Nigerian courts for over two months. Members of the union had embarked on the strike on April 6 to press home their demand for the financial autonomy of the judiciary. The 64-day-old strike is the longest industrial action the Nigerian judiciary, as a whole, …

Mr Yahaya was recently appointed chief of army staff following the death of Ibrahim Attahiru, the former army chief, in a plane crash. Farouk Yahaya was appointed as Nigeria’s army chief ahead of dozens of his superiors because he has experience fighting Boko Haram in the North-east, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Mr Yahaya was recently appointed chief of army …

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