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…declare total shutdown  Rising from an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Lagos chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have ordered a total shutdown of schools, government offices, airspace, electricity and water as of midnight on Sunday. The unions, in a joint press briefing, addressed by their chairmen, Comrade Funmi Session and Comrade Gbenga Ekundayo, …

The presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi said 2023 general elections have proved that the Yorubas do not hate the Igbos. Obi stated this while receiving the 2024 Courageous Citizen Award from the Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy (NACJD) in Abuja on Saturday. The former Anambra State governor noted that the election was not a Christian or …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said politics must always be about bettering the lives of the people, noting that his government plays a politics centered on serving the people and putting the State on the path of accelerated growth and prosperity. Obaseki reassured that his government will not share or give treasury looters access to Edo people’s money …

NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It’s the same courthouse where five Black and Latino youths were …

By Eben Enasco Oredo Local Government Chairman, Dr. Tom Obaseki has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the welfare and well-being of workers, whom he described as the engine room of governance, and promised that their dedication and loyalty would continue to be rewarded. Obaseki gave the reaffirmation recently in Benin when he received in audience, the executive members, Oredo branch …

Donald Trump’s first act on becoming a convicted criminal was to launch a raging new attack on the rule of law, laying bare the gravity of the choice awaiting America’s voters. In one sense, Trump’s conviction on all counts in his first criminal trial affirmed the principle on which the United States is founded — that everyone is equal and that no one, not even …

If anyone expected Joe Biden to be celebrating the fact that election rival Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, they were disappointed. Instead the Democrat’s campaign issued a sober warning that the only way to prevent Trump returning to the White House remained the ballot box. The challenge now will be for Biden to extract political gain for Trump’s historic criminal …

…says military will be fierce in response The armed forces of Nigeria has mourned the death of 5 personnel of Operation Udoka, killed in action by terrorists of IPOB/ ESN while on deployment at Obikabia Junction Checkpoint in Obingwa Local Government Areas adjourning Aba metropolis in Abia State. The AFN said each and every soldier lost in battle is a …

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has condemned the killing of soldiers in Abia State, south-east Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES reported how masked gunmen, on Thursday morning, attacked and killed four soldiers in Obikabia Junction in Aba, the commercial hub of the Abia State. The gunmen, who also burnt the soldiers’ patrol truck, were said to be enforcing the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous …

Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president’s historic hush money trial, but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the potential for a prison sentence. A lengthy appellate process. And all the while, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee still has to deal with three more criminal cases and a campaign …