The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, following the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure at the weekend. President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, made […]
Security agencies are intensifing effort to rescue students kidnapped at their school in Kuriga, Chikin Local Government Area of Kaduna state on thursday Unspecified numbers of students and staffs were kidnapped from their school LEA Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. President Bola Tinubu has ordered security agencies to rescue the students and track down their abductors. Meanwhile,Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani […]
Resident doctors under the auspices of Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, at the University College Hospital, UCH Ibadan in Oyo State have commenced a three-day strike due to alleged assault on one of their members by relatives of a patient in the hospital. President of the association, Dr. John Oladapo said that the body is demanding a public apology from the people who assaulted their member and inflicted injuries on […]
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have razed down at least 25 newly constructed buildings meant for returnees in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State. At the peak of insurgency, Dikwa residents fled their homes and took cover as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS). However, days after abducting IDPS who went into the forest to fetch firewood, insurgents stormed a remote village in Gajibo, shooting sporadically and burning more than 25 […]
The Nigeria Customs Service has commenced the sale of seized food items to vulnerable Nigerians to address hunger across the country The Comptroller General of the Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has stated this on the floor of the House of Representatives during the sectoral debate series It will be recalled that President Bola Tinubu has directed that food items produced in Nigeria and seized at the Nigerian land borders, be sold […]
Oyo State Government has given seven days ultimatum to road side Traders to vacate the road sides or face the full wrath of the law. The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Abdulmojeed Mogbojuola, gave this ultimatum during a visit to Ojoo community in the Akinyele Local Government Area of the state. Mogbojubola, said street trading has been causing unwarranted obstruction of free flow of traffic, passersby and vehicles […]
The Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA) has notified motorists plying Gate to Idi-ape to Iwo-road axis to take alternative route to their destinations. OYRTMA issued this notice on its official X page on Monday following an accident of a fallen gas tanker on the road. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred around 11:00 a.m. when the tanker heading from Bashorun road fell just as it took a […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission has reiterated its directive to telecom operators to bar telephone subscribers not linked to their National Identification Numbers on or before February 28, 2024. The Executive Vice Chairman, National Communication Commission, Dr Aminu Maida, spoke at the NCC’s Special Day during the ongoing 45th Kaduna International Trade Fair on Wednesday. Maida who was represented by Mr Reuben Mouka, NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, insisted that as […]
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero today lamented that Nigerians are dying of hunger due to the economic hardship in the country, urging the federal government to urgently address the situation. Ajaero said this at the National Assembly Complex when he led thousands of protesters including civil society organizations in protest against the economic hardship. The NLC President presented a letter containing their grievances to the representative of […]
