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The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has said the courageous and unavoidable reforms being undertaken by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he noted, are already yielding results and aim to address structural weaknesses in the country. The Vice President, who stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during the opening session of the 66th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economic …

SaharaReporters gathered that a state governor also participated in the meeting, while one of the individuals who openly threatened Sowore was identified as being from Edo State. Two loyalists of President Bola Tinubu have vowed to attack and “demobilise” human rights activist and publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, during a virtual meeting held in the early hours of Tuesday. According …

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Dangote Refinery have reached an agreement, leading to the immediate suspension of a nationwide strike that had threatened to disrupt fuel supply across the country. The breakthrough came after a reconvened meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday, following days of tense negotiations that had previously ended in a stalemate. …

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority has summoned 13 domestic airlines to an emergency meeting over the growing number of flight delays, cancellations and affecting passengers across the country. The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday at the NCAA headquarters in Abuja, was confirmed by the agency’s Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, via his X handle on Tuesday. This …

According to him, the court might drag Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s case on for a long time, “but she should still file the action nonetheless for posterity’s sake.” Human rights lawyer, Barrister Deji Adeyanju, has advised Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to file a fresh court case against the Nigerian Senate over its refusal to allow her to resume her constitutional duties after the …

The National Assembly (NASS) has informed suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that she cannot resume her legislative duties yet after serving her six-month suspension. According to the National Assembly bureaucracy, Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension remains in effect as the case is still before the Court of Appeal. It was earlier reported that after the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled …

“I want to assure Nigerians that we are not happy with the difficulty they are passing through in getting this driver’s licence.” The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, recently spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on the corps’ challenges with providing driving licences to Nigerians in the last year and the plan to commence a contactless …

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, will return to the National Assembly later this month after completing her six-month suspension, her lawyer has confirmed. Speaking with The PUNCH in Abuja, her counsel, Victor Giwa, disclosed that the senator was on vacation in London but had already made plans to resume plenary alongside her colleagues when the Senate reconvenes on September 23. …

President Donald Trump is vowing to wield apocalyptic power inside the United States, even as the adverse impact of some of his key policies is becoming clear. His weekend share of a social media meme in which he threatened to wage war on Chicago, the next Democratic city up in his crime and immigration crackdown, was a classic Trumpian tactic. It depicted …

The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has commenced a seven-day warning strike, citing systemic failures in the FCT health sector. The action was announced on Monday in a communiqué signed by the association’s President, George Ebong, and other executive members. The doctors described the territory’s health system as one crippled by long-standing structural deficiencies, stressing …