The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to desist from further contemplation, discussions and arrangements to concession major airports in the country. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Wabba said that organised labour condemned the plans by government to concession Nigeria’s major airports. […]
Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu is in a crucial meeting with heads of security agencies in the state. The Nation learnt the meeting is holding at the Governor’s Lodge located off Aba-Owerri road, Aba, the commercial nerve of the state. Sources confided the meeting was hinged on restrategising to address some of the security concerns in […]
The Nigeria Army, under ’’Operation Sahel Sanity’’ on Monday arrested 13 notorious bandits terrorising Katsina and other North West states in their ongoing onslaughts against bandits terrorising the region Acting Director, Defense Media Operations, Nigerian Army, Brigadier- General Bernard Onyeuko made the disclosure in a statement in Katsina. He added two of the bandits were […]
VICE Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Lanre Fagbohun, has said students of the institution will resume in batches. The final year classes, he said, are expected back in school three months ahead of others. This followed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive on Saturday that all tertiary institutions in the state should resume on […]
THE Supreme Court on Monday upheld the election of Yahaya Bello as the winner of the last governorship election in Kogi State. In two judgments delivered by Justice Uwan Abba Aji, the court’s seven-man panel, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Mohammad, dismissed the two appeals decided on Monday. The first […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari and South East politicians for “deceiving the people of the region by going ahead to commission the Akanu Ibiam International Airport whose renovation works have not even reached a significant proportion or percentage.” It also dismissed as “sycophantic rhetoric the praises heaped […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has relocated the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, said the move followed the President’s consideration of the critical role of the commission towards realisation of the objectives of the National Digital Economy Policy and […]
• Sets up panel for IDPs’ return to Baga • To demolish 1,300 houses in Maiduguri, Jere Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has attributed arms proliferation and insurgency in the North East to porous borders with neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroun. Zulum raised the alarm yesterday when the president of Alumni Association of […]