archiveSeptember 2023

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna state has urged the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to be patient with President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian governors. Sani made this plea while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday. According to him, President...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has issued a directive for the immediate closure of the Ladipo and Mushin markets. According to a statement signed by Kadiri Folashade, the director of public affairs, Wahab announced the closure of markets for numerous environmental infractions. These infractions...

  The Association of Bureaux de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) is seeking friendly policies to guarantee its members’ operation in the foreign exchange market, as the Federal Government wants Bureaux de Change (BDC) trimmed to 200. The request followed the call on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to...

On Thursday, the National Economic Council (NEC) appealed to organised labour to stay action on the planned indefinite nationwide strike that is expected to commence on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. A meeting of the council presided over by its chairman and the vice president, Kashim Shettima, at the presidential villa...

  The Department of State Services (DSS), as part of efforts in sustaining its engagement with citizens and the public at large as well as deepening democratic governance, transparency and accountability, has established a new Directorate of Public Relations and Strategic Communications (DPRSC). Consequently, it has appointed Peter Nnochirionye Afunanya,...

The Minister of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has sacked some heads of Parastatals, Agencies and government companies of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). The sack is with immediate effect. This was made known in a statement signed by the Director of Press from the office...

The Nigerian Army has dismissed claims that lone Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, had remarried another Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) commander. “Leah does not have any husband”, a Nigerian Army source told AIT on the condition of anonymity. “Leah was initially separated from the man who claimed to...

  The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has stated that the proposed Abuja-Lagos highway will be completed in four years. The minister, in a press conference earlier in the week, said driving from Lagos to Abuja will take four hours when the project is completed. Umahi, said the road will...

  The Labour Party has urged its supporters across the country to stock their homes with necessary items ahead of the proposed indefinite strike by organized labour. Busineess247 News Online treports that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) may be shutting down the country’s economy...

  A former spokesman for President Bola Tinubu’s campaign in the South East, Dr. Josef Onoh has disclosed that the United States of America (USA) privacy law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), is in protection of the Nigeria President from releasing his academic records to the 2023...