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Operations of Arik Air were on Monday shut down by the aviation unions over alleged non-payment of staff salaries since April. They claimed that the non-payment started after the company placed 90 per cent of the workforce on compulsory leave and other “anti-labour practices”. The unions included the National Union of Air Transport Employees and Air Transport Senior Staff Services …

A civil society group under the aegis of No Sidon Look, at the weekend, held a voter education rally in Benin City, the Edo State capital, to sensitise the electorate on the need to turn out en masse on Saturday, September 19, 2020 to exercise their franchise.  The CSO with interest in good governance, also reaffirmed its support for the …

Lagos State Police Command has deployed 1,000 officers to complement other security personnel drafted for the Edo governorship election scheduled for Sept. 19. This is contained in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. Adejobi said that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu admonished officers from the Command …

Former Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, has hailed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Godwin Obaseki, for his people-oriented projects and programs across the state, urging Edo voters to reelect the governor who has shown competency in delivering the dividends of democracy in the first term. Kwankwaso made the call after a meeting with the Deputy …

*New house also donated to late Police Inspector Gomina’s family Nigeria’s Federal Government has responded to Gui community call with the completion of four blocks of 24 classrooms and 16 toilets (built with four units of 2-bedroom flats as staff quarters) for the community. This is coming barely six months after the District Head of Gui (a community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council …

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has notified the federal government of its decision to withdraw its services in all tertiary health institutions across the country starting from Sunday midnight. JOHESU, the group of other health workers except for doctors, said it reached that decision after a meeting with the government on Thursday yielded no positive result in meeting their demands. The …

The presidency has attacked Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, over his recent statement that Nigeria is becoming a failed and divided state under President Muhammadu Buhari. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Obasanjo said he has never seen Nigeria in such a bad state, and blamed the current state of the country on poor management of the nation’s diversity. “Today, Nigeria is …

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has warned that granting amnesty to repentant insurgents cannot restore peace in troubled states. He said arrangements were being perfected to ensure the return of some displaced victims of insurgency living in the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to their ancestral villages next month. Ndume, who …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Director-General of the National Youth Service Corp Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim has appealed to residents of Edo State to ensure the safety and protection of corps members engaged as ad-hoc staff during the state governorship election scheduled for this coming Saturday. Brig-Gen Shuaibu disclosed that no fewer than 1260 corps members have been mobilized for the election. The …

By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Edo State Police and the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) have strengthened relations ahead of the state gubernatorial election scheduled to hold on September 19, 2020.Consequently, over a thousand corp members have been engaged as ad-hoc staff during the election.The duo’s long standing tie was renewed when the Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim paid a courtesy visit …