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...
•Murtala Muhammed International Airport Aviation workers’ unions today announced plans to stage a peaceful protest on September 18, 2024. The General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Ocheme Aba, and the Deputy General Secretary of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Frances Akinjole, discl...
•Fuel queue The latest hike in the price of petrol has pushed up transport fares by over 50 percent in major cities across Nigeria. The newest price hikes, implemented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s (NNPCL) Retail Management, range from N855 to N897 per litre, depending on the location, from the previous N568 – N617, [&hell...
Nigerian students under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has announced plans for a large-scale shutdown of all major cities in Nigeria, starting on September 15, 2024. According to NANS, the protest is in response to the recent fuel price increase, reports Daily Trust. Yesterday, there was an increase in the...
•Doctors protest The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning strike across all of its centres nationwide. The resident doctors strike is to clamour for the release of its kidnapped member, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over 8 months, reports Channels TV. NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi,...
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