•Umahi The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has inaugurated a committee to verify those whose property are within the right of way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway. The minister during the inauguration yesterday in Abuja said the verification is important to identify those that will be compensated for their loss during construction, re...
•Doctors on strike Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital owned by the Ondo State Government have begun a 14-day warning strike action over non-payment of seven months salaries to new members. The striking ARD members staged a peaceful protest to press home their demands, re...
•Telecoms mast The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has declared an indefinite strike effective midnight on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The union said the decision was deemed necessary due to the relentless anti-labour practices against field engineers perpetrated by subcontractors. The telecoms un...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have begun a nationwide strike over what they described as unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of withheld salaries by the federal government. “Definitely, it (the strike) has already started,” SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, decl...
•Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, NSCIA leader and the President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Ramadan immediately after Sunday, March 10, 2024. The date...
•Customs officers with bags of rice In a move to alleviate the hardship Nigerians are facing due to the skyrocketing prices of food, the Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Ogun Command, has announced plans to begin another round of distribution of seized rice and other food items to citizens as soon as the federal government finalises the […]...
•A train The Port Harcourt to Aba rail line is billed to commence full operations by the end of this month, March. This was made known by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria, who was on an inspection visit to the facility in Port Harcourt yesterday, reports Channels TV. Okhiria […]
•Ogun protest The Nigeria Labour Congress, Ogun State Chapter, has joined their counterparts across the country to protest the prevailing hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal and attendant skyrocketing prices of goods, particularly food among others. The leadership of the NLC disclosed that the two-day rally slated for today and tomorro...
•TUC president, Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has asked the federal government to begin the importation of food in two weeks to mitigate the soaring prices of food across the country. This was disclosed by the President, TUC, Festus Osifo, during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country today [&hellip...
•Protesting nurses The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has directed its members to fully comply with the proposed nationwide protest slated for February 27 and 28 over the cost of living crisis in the country. The NANNM Secretariat gave the directive in a circular signed by its Deputy General Secretary and Acting Head [&hel...