The EFCC, on Monday November 15, 2021 flagged-off a nationwide risk assessment of Non-profit Organizations. The programme which is a collaborative initiative of the EFCC through the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, and relevant stakeholders in the public and private sectors, according to the EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, …
Read More »Government
Emirates Ban: FG Announces Possible Resumption Of Flights To UAE
The federal government has announced the possible resumption of flights between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Direct flights between both countries were suspended in March over issues relating to COVID-19 protocol. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Mukhtar Muhammad, national incident manager of the presidential steering committee …
Read More »Nigerian Professors Don’t Earn More Than N416,000 — UNILAG ASUU Chairman
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Lagos chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, has revealed that Nigerian professors do not earn more than N416,000 as monthly salary. Ashiru disclosed this during an interview on the Sunrise Daily programmed on Channels Television, stating that university lecturers deserved better …
Read More »Ngige: ASUU Strike Won’t Happen, Funds Are Available
Chris Ngige, minister of labour, says the strike threatened by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not take place. On Monday, ASUU issued a three-week ultimatum to the federal government to implement the earlier agreement reached with the union. Speaking on Tuesday in an interview on Channels Television, …
Read More »FG Moves To Reduce Food Prices
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has said the federal government is doing everything possible to bring up stimulus that will cause a reduction in food prices. There has been a steady rise in the prices of foodstuff in Nigeria in the past months. The minister …
Read More »Lai Mohammed Mocks APC Party Leaders, Calls Them Jesters
Leaders and elders of the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have slammed the minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over his comments against Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. The elders, were reacting to the comments made by the minister about the governor in a recent newspaper …
Read More »#ENDSARS: Only White Paper Report Can Confirm Alleged Lekki Killing – CDS Irabor
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Lucky Irabor Tuesday evening in Benin City the Edo State Capital said that only a white paper from the report of the #ENDSARS Judicial panel’s report in Lagos which is indicating through the social media that there were killings during the protest in …
Read More »#EndSARS: Desmond Elliot Reacts To Judicial Panel Report (Video)
Actor and politician, Desmond Elliot, has reacted to the findings in the report of the Lagos state inquiry into the October 20, 2020 shooting incident at the Lekki tollgate. The panel in its report indicted the Nigerian Army and police and described the incident as a massacre. The report also …
Read More »Inflation Hindering Justice Administration, Says NJC
The National Judicial Council on Tuesday said the current galloping inflation in the country was affecting the administration of justice in the country. The Executive Secretary of NJC, Ahmed Saleh stated this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Opeyemi …
Read More »Kano: Fa’izu Alfidiki Leads Demolition Of Site Meant For Federal Lawmaker’s
The political wrangling between Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State and Sha’aban Sharada, the member representing Kano Municipal Federal Constituency, is fast growing as Kano Municipal LG chairman allegedly led demolition of a site meant for the lawmaker’s project. In October, relationship between Kano State Government and four other …
Read More »