•Nurses Newly recruited nurses and midwives in Kaduna State have called on the state Governor, Senator Uba Sani, to intervene over their eight-month salary arrears. The over 200 health workers were recruited by the state government in June 2023 on a salary grade level 7 and posted to General Hospitals across the state, reports Daily […]...
•Policemen at a checkpoint at the border Traders, clearing agents and drivers have expressed concerns over the proliferation of checkpoints mounted by security operatives on the Seme Border-Mile 2 corridor. They alleged that many of the “illegal” checkpoints were mounted to extort them, a situation they said was stifling their businesses, repo...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Some indigenous Lagosians under the aegis of De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, today, expressed dissatisfaction over what it termed “less than stellar leadership” in Lagos State. The group said this when its leadership was hosted by Chairman of its Board of Trustees, Professor Adele Jinadu, reports Vanguard. Duri...
•Some doctors performing a surgery Doctors under the auspices of the National Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria have lamented the high cost of drugs in the country. The association said the high prices of drugs would compound the woes of Nigerians, particularly those suffering from one ailment or the other, as many of [&hellip...
•A section of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Motorists and passengers plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have lamented the increase in the operations of ‘one-chance’ robbers in the Mowe/Ibafo-Berger area of the road. Some passengers who spoke to our correspondents at the weekend said the road is no longer safe for them to use due to the activities of...
•Market women As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts, traders in Kano have continued to lament poor patronage by customers. Some of the traders who spoke to our correspondent yesterday in Kano attributed the situation to the low purchasing power of customers, reports NAN. A food stuff dealer, Malam Tanko Idris, said that, compared [&hellip...
Some gas dealers and FCT residents have decried the surge in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), known as cooking gas, calling on the federal government to wade into the issue. The dealers and residents yesterday in Abuja expressed dissatisfaction over the constant rise in the price of the product and its attendant effects, […]
•Transformer Residents of Ojoto, Wokoma, Elechi and Ekwe streets in Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt City Council of Rivers State, have been thrown into darkness after some armed men vandalised a transformer in the area. Yesterday morning, the residents woke up to find out that the transformer located at Elechi/Wokom Street had been tampered with [...
Some academic and non-academic staff members of the Kaduna State University have decried the non-payment of their salaries. The workers said they had yet to receive any salary since they were employed three years ago as they were excluded from the state’s payroll, reports Saturday PUNCH. According to them, this was mainly because of the [&hell...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has lamented the non-payment of arrears of the national minimum wage to its members. It also urged the federal government to pay the October and November backlog of the N35,000 wage award to workers in its payroll, reports The Nation. The union said fourteen universities have failed...