The Federal Government yesterday made good its threat to stop the salaries of all its workers, especially members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who are not featured on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). President Muhammadu Buhari had while presenting the 2020 budget proposal to the National Assembly, declared: “I […]
Russia may give a new lease of life to Nigeria’s biggest steel plant after decades of inactivity, the West African nation’s mines minister said. Construction of Ajaokuta Steel Co. began in 1979 with assistance from the then-Soviet Union, but the facility never started production and has sucked up $8 billion of public money. Repeated attempts […]
The FG has temporarily lifted a suspension of the operations of two aid groups, Mercy Corps and Action Against Hunger, in the country’s northeast, the minister of humanitarian affairs said. The army forced both groups to close some of their offices in September, accusing Action Against Hunger of aiding terrorist groups and alleging that a […]
First Lady Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has urged Africans to change their perception of women’s infertility as an abnormal condition and also desist from attaching a stigma to women having the condition. In a statement by the first lady’s Special Assistant, Media and Publicity Mr Aliyu Abdullahi, she made the call during the high-level panel discussion […]
Nigeria’s Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s appeal for lacking merit. “We have examined all the briefs and the exhibits for over two weeks and we agree that there is no merit in this appeal,” Chief Justice, Tanko Muhammad said at the judgement. “The appeal is dismissed,” he concluded, in […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it ‘vehemently opposed’ to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for university staff members because it is aimed at thwarting the educational advancement of the country. “ASUU is determined to oppose any policy that is aimed at thwarting the educational advancement of the country. It […]
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The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday said it had reviewed current progress in the implementation of the new minimum wage law and resolved that consequential increments will depend on the capacity of individual state government. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, who stated this in Abuja after the body’s sixth meeting, asserted […]
From now till December 31, 2019, Nigeria will raise its domestic debt profile by N802. 82 billion to support the 2019 budget implementation which would elapse in barely 64 days, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said. On the other hand, it would shelve planned borrowing from the international debt market- Eurobond, for the budget, […]
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) holding in Ethiopia, to pay special attention to the xenophobic attacks on the African continent. Mr Uche Anichukwu, his Media aide, said in a statement that Ekweremadu made the call on Monday at the opening […]