•Nigerian students protest Nigerian students, under the aegis of The National Association of Nigerian Students, have rejected the recent increase in ATM charges by the Central Bank ank of Nigeria. In a statement issued yesterday by the Clerk of the Senate at NANS National Headquarters, Oladimeji Uthman, the association described the increment ...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has sealed the Idumota open drug market in Lagos State. This, NAFDAC said was part of its ongoing efforts to eliminate fake and substandard medicines in the country, reports NAN. NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Shaba Mohammed, told journalists during an enforc...
•Nigerian workers protest As part of its mobilisation against the planned 50 percent telecom tariff hike, Nigerian workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have resolved to hold a nationwide anti-telecom tariff hike protest Tuesday, February 4. It was gathered that the nationwide protest was agreed on at the ongoing Nationa...
The federal government has flagged off the free train ride across the country as part of measures to reduce the financial burden and to ensure Nigerians who intend to travel enjoy the yuletide season. According to the federal government, Nigerians who want to travel during the Yuletide would enjoy a free train ride from today […]
The Managing Director and Chief Executive, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, Bello Hassan, said yesterday the corporation has commenced sales of landed property and chattels of the defunct Heritage Bank nationwide to ensure payment of liquidation dividend to uninsured depositors of the bank. Hassan disclosed this on the occasion of ...
•Dele Farotimi The Obidient Movement has issued a warning of nationwide protests should human rights lawyer and activist, Barr. Dele Farotimi, remain in detention. Farotimi was reportedly arrested on the orders of a magistrate court over allegations of defaming Chief Afe Babalola, SAN. In a statement signed by the movement’s National Coordinat...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to relocate all its local government offices out of the premises of the 774 council headquarters in Nigeria to neutral grounds. Most INEC offices at the local government level are domiciled inside the council Secretariats, w...
Universities across the country, especially those owned by the federal government, were today shut down by non-academic staff under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions, NASU. The step followed the decision of the national leaders of th...
Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) have declared a seven-day warning strike, commencing from midnight today. The latest strike comes after a fifteen-day notice of industrial action issued to the federal government. While addressing journalists in Abuja, the national chairman of the unio...
•Flood No fewer than 259 people have been killed out of a total of 1,048,312 individuals affected by the recent flood disaster that ravaged 29 states across the country. Speaking on the current trend of flooding nationwide, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, disclosed during the National...

