A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed by members of the 9th Governing Council of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) challenging the council’s dissolution. In a judgment today, Tuesday, July 9, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the suit filed by the affected UniAbuja Governing Council members was instituted outside the three [&...
•Dangote (left) and Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today inaugurated the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) tasked with strategising a way out of the current economic situation in the country. The Council has a mix of government officials, top private sector players, and consultants including President of the Dangote Industries Li...
•FEC meeting The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has stepped down consideration and deliberation on the memo on the new minimum wage to allow President Bola Tinubu engage in more consultation with stakeholders. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this today while briefing State House correspondents on th...
•FEC meeting in Abuja Barring any last-minute change of plan, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) is expected to meet today to deliberate on salient matters aimed at tackling some of the problems bedevilling the country. It was gathered that the meeting is expected to consider some serious matters of state including the vexed issue of [&hellip...
•The protesters Former Council Chairmen of 21 out of the 23 Local Governments Area (LGA) in Rivers State today staged a protest at their various council areas. In Buguma, council headquarters of the Asari-Toru LGA, former Chairman Onengiyeofori George, alongside his supporters marched through the streets of the town as they gyrate to songs in ...
More than 30 advertising materials meant to celebrate this year’s Easter were disapproved for non-compliance to the nation’s advertising code, the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has said. Making the disclosure at the Advertising Standards Panel (ASP) stakeholders’ forum, held in Lagos, the Director-General of ARCON, Dr Lekan...
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, has said the outstanding performance of Governor Seyi Makinde in the last five years was the major reason Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates won all the 33 local government seats. He made this known in a statement shortly after the Chairman, Oyo State Independent Electoral Co...
Chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos, Mr Fuad Atanda-Lawal, has approved 100 per cent pay rise for the medical doctors attached to all the primary health centres in the council area. Atanda-Lawal made the announcement yesterday after extensive deliberations on the need to ensure that all residents of the co...
•Nurses An average nurse working at the local government, state, or national level gets a monthly salary of about N135,000, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) Registrar, Faruk Abubakar, has said. Abubakar said some nurses get up to N200,000 monthly salary, depending on where they work. The NMCN registrar said this while appear...
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with members of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN) at the State House, Abuja. The ongoing meeting between the president and council is coming just about 48 hours after The Frontier reported that the President of SCSN, Sheikh Abdur-Rasheed Hadiyyatullah, expressed regrets for supporting t...

