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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), wednesday insisted on embarking on industrial action if the federal government stops the payment of their salaries for their refusal to enroll in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Benin, Sokoto and Ilorin zonal branches of the union said yesterday that their members would resort to their “no pay, no …

Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted authorities, a federal police spokeswoman said. The driver, who was transporting fruit and vegetables, called the police who found 12 adult men of Syrian and Sudanese origin and took them to the Immigration Office in the …

•It’s shamefully pathetic — FG•Reps to seek protection for political leaders while abroad•PDP, Lawan, Omo-Agege condemn attack•Attack not in Igbo character, says APC Forum Nnamdi  Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, insisted, yesterday, that the attack on the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, in Nuremberg, Germany, was a ‘courageous act’ and ‘polite warning.’ Reacting in …

A Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, on Wednesday, 30th October 2019 discharged and acquitted 4 protesters arrested on August 5, 2019, during the RevolutionNow protest. The court presided over by Magistrate II, Mr O. A. Onaguruwa, upheld the no-case submission made on behalf of the 4 protesters by Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Inibehe …

…As VP Osinbajo receives Vietnamese Deputy PM …Both countries sign waiver of Visa requirements for holders of valid diplomatic & official passports Nigeria and Vietnam have agreed on the establishment of a joint commission on trade and strengthening the bilateral ties between the two countries. This was one of the highlights of a high-level meeting between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo …

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken on the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, dismissing the case brought before it by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday. Reacting to the verdict through a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, President Buhari …

Nigeria’s National Economic Council (NEC), has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), for driving Ease of Doing Business reforms, which has seen Nigeria move up fifteen (15) places in the World Bank Doing Business Ranking for 2020.The National Economic Council comprises of the nation’s 36 Governors, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister and Governor of the Central …

A Benin High Court has refused to grant the prayer of one Tony Kabaka Adun seeking an extension of the initial 14-day restraining order, which temporarily stopped the Edo State Government from removing his illegal building earlier marked for demolition. The court presided over by Justice D. I. Okungbowa yesterday declined the request by Mr. Adun’s lawyer, U.L Osa-Uwagie, during …

The Supreme Court has dismissed objection the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, raised against its decision to consolidate seven appeals relating to President Muhammad Buhari’s re-election. The apex court, in its first ruling that was delivered by a seven-man panel of Justices headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, consolidated all the …

Edo State Government has concluded plans for the launch of the state’s Compulsory Health Insurance Scheme on Thursday, October 31, which will ensure that affordable healthcare is accessible to residents in the state. Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie made the disclosure in a press statement in Benin on Tuesday. Osagie said Governor …