•Nigerian Senate The Senate is currently in an emergency session ahead of the nationwide hunger and hardship protests slated to begin tomorrow. The meeting is being chaired by the President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, reports Channels TV. The lawmakers observed a minute silence in honour of the late Senator Ifeanyi Uba ahead of [&hel...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has called for an emergency meeting of the Senate. A circular seen by our correspondent and signed by the Clerk, Chinedu Akubueze today, said the meeting was of “National Importance”, reports Channels TV. The internal circular did not give further details on the emergency meeting but it i...
•Tinubu As the planned ‘EndBadGovernance’ protest slated for August draws close, President Bola Tinubu today entered an emergency closed-door meeting with top traditional rulers, security top brass in his government and governors of his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The high-delegation meeting was held at the State House i...
•Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume The federal government has scheduled an emergency meeting this morning in response to a planned nationwide protest slated for August 1. This comes after President Bola Tinubu pleaded with the organisers to shelve the protests and give his administration more time to execute people-or...
•Dangote Refinery As concerns mount over the lack of domestic crude oil to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and other indigenous refiners, the Independent Petroleum Producers Group has called on President Bola Tinubu to consider declaring a state of emergency on crude oil production in Nigeria following the lingering crisis associated with this....
•NNPC boss, Mele Kyari The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says it has declared a state of emergency on oil production. It said this was a move towards increasing Nigeria’s crude oil production and growing its reserves. Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a keynote address at the opening of [&helli...
•Cholera patients In the wake of the cholera outbreak in the country, Nigeria has initiated discussions with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, Gavi, towards obtaining emergency supplies of the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) as the country battles the disease amid a global shortage of the vaccine. The Director-General of the Nigeri...
Governors of the 36 states of the federation have resolved to meet today to resolve issues regarding the proposed new minimum wage. Recall that the governors had rejected the N62,000 proposed by the federal government, explaining that some states would have to borrow to pay salaries if the amount is implemented, reports Daily Trust. However, [...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated its emergency centre as the death toll in the recent outbreak of the cholera reached 53 nationwide. This is according to an update today by the agency shared on its official X platform. “Following a dynamic risk assessment of the #cholera epidemiological situation which placed the [&h...
•Niger Delta militants Ex-militant leaders under the aegis of Movement for Actualization of Dreams of Niger Deltans, MADND and commanders of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, have kicked against the call on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as a joke taken [&helli...
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