•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has described the raid on its office as a new low in operation of security operatives. It was earlier reported how the police raided headquarters of the Congress (NLC) over allegations that members of the organised labour sponsored the #EndBadGovernance protest. Some labour leaders who...
•Sani Gwarzo After several years of indecision, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and other stakeholders in the polytechnic sector, yesterday agreed to the establishment of a National Polytechnics Commission to promote academic standards in the sector. The perm...
•Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori The Delta State government has said it had not received the 20 trucks of rice the federal government distributed to the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Information Commissioner Ifeanyi Osuoza announced this while speaking with our correspondent yesterday in Asaba, the state capital...
•Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has revealed that the country currently spends $600 million on fuel importation monthly. He stated that the high import bill is due to neighbouring countries, up to Central Africa, benefiting fro...
•Naira notes The Multidisciplinary Finance Professionals (MFP) Group has asked the government to stop the dollarisation of international transactions and floating of the Nigerian currency as part of strategies to address the devaluation of the currency. These were contained in the communiqué of the group at the end of the sixth edition of its ...
•Federal secretariat, Abuja deserted The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, today, witnessed a surge in vehicular movements on the fifth day of the nationwide protests, indicating a gradual return to normalcy. However, government offices at the Federal Secretariat Complex remained deserted, with only a few staff members reporting for duty, repo...
UK flag (The Union Jack) The federal government has warned Nigerian citizens planning to travel to the United Kingdom, to be wary of violence risk occasioned by the recent killing of three young girls at a concert. A statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja today, and signed by its Spokesperson, Amb. Eche […]
•Internet A coalition of Civil Society Organisations has condemned what it termed as “intentional” disruption of internet connection during the ongoing protest against hunger in the country, saying the act at critical time as this would only exacerbate the underlying concerns of the Nigerian citizens. The group described the action as unaccept...
•Dr. Rexkennedy Saltlove A political activist and public affairs analyst, Dr. Rexkennedy Saltlove, is the President/Executive Director, Citizens Rights and Empowerment Advocacy Initiative (CREMA Initiative). He spoke on the ongoing nationwide protests against bad governance, the Edo governorship elections and the crisis in Rivers State, report...
•House of Representatives It was a rowdy scene at the emergency plenary session called by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, today. The debate centred on a bill seeking to raise the Ways and Means cash advances from the Central Bank of Nigeria from five per cent to 10 per cent. This […]

