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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU ) has called on the National Assembly to pass the Bill to amend the National Universities Commission Act to address the proliferation of state universities. The coordinator of the Kano Zone of the Union , Prof . Abdulkadir Muhammad made the call at …

Eminent Nigerians yesterday called for a united front for the country to come out of its current security, economic and political challenges. They spoke at the 2020 LEADERSHIP Conference and Awards ceremony held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. Among those, who proffered solutions to the country’s festering problems, …

First thing, first!  The picture that misrepresented the state of the newly renovated Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba was never posted on Twitter to, in any attempt to defame the state government nor call to question its integrity, far from it. It was a brazen, almost crazy attempt for content analysis …

No fewer than 5,540 applicants have applied for the 100 vacancies approved by the Nasarawa State Government at Isa Mustapha Agwai Polythecnic, Lafia. The Rector of the Polythecnic, Dr. Justina Kotso, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lafia when the management of the institution appeared before the State House Assembly …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the Federal Government does not owe the striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors or other health workers in the country. He stated that only “illegally recruited” doctors are not being paid because they were neither captured …

The Federal Government on Tuesday reached a truce with aggrieved health workers under the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professionals, after a five-hour meeting. The marathon meeting hosted by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, began at 4pm and ended around past 9pm, with an …

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has vowed not to call off its over one-month industrial action without intervention of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo. Its National President, Osakhuesuyi Uyilawa, said the union would only call return to duty if it got a strong commitment from Prof. Osibanjo. “If we …

A crisis is brewing at the headquarters of the Nigeria Correctional Services (NCoS), Abuja, following the alleged premature retirement of seven top ranking officers of the service by the newly appointed Comptroller- General, Haliru Nababa. Until his appointment, Nababa was head of the Directorate of Finance and Accounts in the …

The Federal Government has said it is not correct for the Academic Staff Union of Universities to accuse it of failing to implement the agreement it signed with the union. It said there was a process through which decisions on such issues were taken and that process had not been …

The Federal Government has recommenced the disbursement of the sum of N20,000 to vulnerable households in nine targeted local government areas in Akwa Ibom state, under its Household Uplifting Programme-Conditional Cash Transfer, HUP-CCT. The Focal Person for Social Investment Programme in the state, Dr Godwin Akpan, listed the targeted local …