•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The federal government has expressed deep concern over the alarming rate of school dropouts across the country, revealing that about 24 million pupils who enrolled in primary schools failed to advance to senior secondary level. Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja durin...
•Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State The Oyo State government has cautioned the federal government against misleading the public over the ownership of certain government property within the state, insisting that the affected lands were lawfully revoked and reallocated after years of abandonment and misuse. The State Commissioner for Lands, Hous...
The federal government has assured workers that their October 2025 salaries will be paid on schedule despite the ongoing software upgrade within the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). This assurance was contained in a statement by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) and signed by Bawa Mokwa, ...
The federal government, through the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has set December 2025 to achieve full International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) certification of Nigerian airports. This is contained in a statement issued yesterday by the authority’s Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Henry Agbebire....
•Tinubu and ASUU logo The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its two-week warning strike, granting the federal government a one-month window to address its demands. … developing story
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has scheduled an Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting to review the 30-day ultimatum earlier issued to the federal government. In a notice obtained by our correspondent yesterday, addressed to the National Officers’ Committee, Caucus Leaders, Centre Presidents, and General Secretaries, t...
A renowned psychiatrist, policy reformer, and academic leader at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Taiwo Sheikh, has called on the federal government to declare suicide a national crisis, stressing the urgent need for a comprehensive suicide prevention law in Nigeria. Sheikh, who is also the Continental Representative for Lifeline Inte...
•Doctors With six days left before its 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government expires, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has listed 19 unresolved welfare and administrative issues affecting its members across the country. In a communiqué made available to our correspondent yesterday, and signed by its Secretary General, D...
•Nigerian workers The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), today, issued a 4-week ultimatum to the federal government to resolve all issues it has with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and all other tertiary institution-based unions. It threatened that should the federal government fail to conclude negotiations with ...
•Tinubu and ADC logo The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned the federal government against using the recent news of an alleged coup plot as a pretext to clamp down on opposition leaders and begin extra-judicial surveillance on voices that do not agree with the government. In a statement signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the [&hel...

