•Minister Umahi The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has announced that the federal government plans to pay N2.75 billion as compensation to property owners affected by the demolition required for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway today, Wednesday, May 1. Umahi said that the highway is projected to stretch from channel 0 to ...
•PHOTO (L-R): Labour Minister Nkiruka Onyejeocha, NLC President Joe Ajaero, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and TUC boss, Festus Osifo in Abuja today The federal government says although the Tripartite Committee On National Minimum Wage is yet to conclude its negotiations, workers will not lose anything as the new minimum wage will take effect...
•Ganduje The Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to probe his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje, will hold its inaugural sitting today. This was indicated by a statement made available to journalists in Kano, yesterday afternoon, by Governor Yusuf’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, who doubles as ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will today hold a national dialogue on State Policing. Vice President Kashmir Shettima is expected to lead two former Nigerian leaders and top security chiefs to the one-day event, which will hold at the Abuja Continental Hotel, reports The Nation. Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami...
•Governor Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto State Government has declared today, Friday, April 12, 2024, as a work-free day. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Abubakar Bawa, announced this in a statement yesterday. The statement revealed that the purpose of the public holiday is to allow civil servants to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr with their families. “...
The Board of Inquiry constituted by Defence Headquarters to probe the March 17 killing of 17 soldiers at Okuama, Delta State, is scheduled to commence sitting today in Warri. Chairman of the Board, Air Vice Marshal David Ajayi, told Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in Warri: “We are on a fact-finding mission and to apportion blame. We […]
•Super Falcons celebrate goal In what is becoming an African classic, the Super Falcons of Nigeria and South Africa’s Bayana Bayana will square off in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers later today. The second leg of the last phase of qualification for the Games is billed for Pretoria in South Africa, reports AFP. Nigeria […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, today, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd on five counts of money laundering charge. It was reliably gathered yesterday that Binance, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be ar...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have begun a nationwide strike over what they described as unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of withheld salaries by the federal government. “Definitely, it (the strike) has already started,” SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, decl...
•Late Olubadan of Ibadanland The body of Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, will be interred today at 4:00 pm. His remains will be committed to Mother Earth at his Aliwo family compound according to Islamic rites, report Channels TV. The prayers will be led by the Chief Imam of Ibadanland, Sheikh Ajigbotomokekere and […]