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The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has suspended its three-day strike indefinitely to enable government stakeholders intervene. The President of MWUN, Mr Adewale Adeyanju, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Friday. According to him, the suspension is due to the intervention of the Permanent Secretaries in...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will no longer use cyber cafes for registration of candidates, beginning from the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said this on Thursday on the sideline of a meeting with proprietors of Computer Based...

  The insurance industry recorded 22 per cent increase in gross premium income, year-on-year, to N315 billion in the third quarter (Q3’18) from N258 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017 (Q3’17). Commissioner for Insurance, Alhaji Mohammed Kari, disclosed this while delivering the keynote address at a workshop for...

The recently retired former Chelsea striker believes the Portuguese is not to blame for Manchester United's recent struggles. Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho would have won the Premier League title "two or three times" if he was the boss of Manchester City, says his former star protégé Didier Drogba, Goal,...

  Some unidentified fraudsters under the disguise of being relatives of workers and retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme have been approaching Pension Fund Administrators to collect the pensions of contributors. According to information obtained from the National Pension Commission, the fraudsters, who have been deceiving the PFAs with fake...

  The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Saturday lamented the issue of godfatherism in the political arena in Nigeria. Spokesperson of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin in a chat with DAILY POST insisted that the issue of godfatherism was “killing Lagos State.” Odumakin said this while reacting to the alleged face-off...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Sunday said the party will win the September 22 governorship election in Osun state. He said this in reaction to the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke (Osun West) as the party’s flag bearer for the election. Babatope, an...

    To curb excessive charges by Discos, the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee on Power has said Nigeria can beat the problem of estimated electricity bills by supporting indigenous meter manufacturing firms. The committee said it is determined to strengthen the operations of indigenous meter manufacturers to help...

The equities market of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed nearly flat in Thursday’s session, with the All-Share Index (ASI) inching lower marginally by 0.01 per cent to 40,752.83 points. The Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns dipped marginally to -1.81 per cent and 6.56 per cent, respectively. The Consumer Goods index...

The Senate has described as a treasonable felony, the action of suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who was said to have led unidentified men to the chamber of the Senate to snatch the mace which is its symbol of authority. Spokesperson of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi,  described the action...