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The Senate on Tuesday, passed a resolution to avert impending strike by Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff of Nigerian Universities (NASU). This followed a motion by Sen. Barau Jibril (APC-Kano), on the urgent need to avert the impending strike by SSANU and NASU. Barau, who brought the motion, cited order 42 and 52 of …

The African Development Bank and the World Bank have blacklisted 15 Nigerian firms doing businesses with them. Also put on the blacklist are nine Nigerian nationals indicted for various forms of procurement malpractices. The African Development Bank had early Tuesday announced the debarment of Lutoyilex Construct Limited, a construction company registered in Nigeria. The  company’s Managing Director, Bamidele Obiniyi (also known as Mr Bamidele Abayomi) was …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate implementation of the N30,000 new national wage for Federal Public Service workers currently earning below the minimum wage. The Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, Chief Richard Egbule said this while addressing a news conference on the implementation of the new national minimum wage on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the …

Despite evidence that many Nigerians are being killed and kidnapped by gunmen across the nation on a regular basis, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has insisted that security agencies have successfully tackled the security situation. Mr Buratai said security officials have recorded ‘great success’ in the fight against insecurity. He described the cries of insecurity across Nigeria as …

The Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) has cleared six commissioner-nominees whose names were recently sent to the House by Governor Godwin Obaseki in a major cabinet reshuffle. During its plenary session at the Anthony Enahoro Assembly Complex, in Benin City, on Monday, July 15, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, introduced the commissioner-nominees to the House after Chairman of …

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday, predicted four imminent calamities if president Muhammadu Buhari fails to address the challenges facing the country . The former president in his open letter released by his media Aide Kehinde Akinyemi in Abeokuta ,warned that Nigeria is “on the precipice and dangerously reaching a tipping point where it may no longer be possible …

I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and all right-thinking Nigerians, it must …

The President of the Senate Dr. Ahmad Lawan on Monday condemned the continuous killings of Nigerians in South Africa, warning that further attacks on Nigerians would no longer be condoned. Lawan expressed concern that about 118 Nigerians had so far lost their lives in different attacks over the years, out of which 13 were by the South African Police. A …

…Reveals how Obaseki raised money for Oshiomhole to become Edo governor Oshiomhole should please leave  governor Godwin Obaseki alone to run the state to the best of his ability because nobody interfered with his own administration when he was governor of the state. Those were the words of a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Mr. …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured that his administration will continue to provide opportunities for youths in the state to gain in-demand skills to eke out decent livelihoods for themselves.  According to him, this is part of his promise to create 200,000 and raise an army of highly skilled workforce who can proffer technology-based solutions to societal challenges. The governor …