Medical doctors in the employment of the Ogun Government on Tuesday vowed to embark on an indefinite industrial action by August if the state government continues to ignore their demands. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Government General Medical Practitioners, made the threat during a news …
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Mike Okeme, the Special Adviser to Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Labour Relations and SERVICOM, last Friday escaped being lynched during an election of the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) held at the La-Diva Hotel in Asaba. Okeme, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress …
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The Army has arrested four fleeing Boko Haram terrorists, including a father and son at Kurnari village and Nayinawa in Yobe. According to a statement issued by Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Tuesday, the arrested terrorists are: Bukar Waziri, 25, Mammade Lawan, 20, and father and son, Muhammadu Damina, …
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The Senate on Tuesday finally passed a bill to make the Nigerian Peace Corps a para-military agency. The Senate adopted the conference report on the bill to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps, after it was so advised by its committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters. Both the Senate …
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The President, the Nigeria Union of Tailors, Mr Wasiu Taiwo, on Tuesday said that the union had concluded an arrangement to set up a hub for mass production of clothes. Taiwo told journalists in Lagos that the production hub would be a sewing centre with modern equipment. According to him, …
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is currently meeting with service chiefs at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. The closed-door meeting is taking place at the Vice President’s wing of the Presidential Villa. Daily Trust reports that the attendees include the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Abayomi Olonishakin, the …
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The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday left the Monetary Policy Rate unchanged at 14 per cent. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele who announced the decision of the committee at the end of a two-day meeting held at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja …
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Law enforcement officers have been instructed by the President to shoot drug traffickers to death when they are seen with narcotics. Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo, on Monday, gave the instruction to deal with a narcotics emergency facing the country. “Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country …
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The Management of the state-owned Edo University, Iyamho,(EUI), says the institution was established to essentially cater for academically-endowed students and the wealthy in the society. The Vice Chancellor(VC) of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, told newsmen on Monday, in Iyamho-Uzairue, in the Estako-West local government area of Edo that “the …
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A 30-year-old driver, Haruna Suleiman, was on Monday arraigned in a Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Nasarawa State, for allegedly abducting his girlfriend’s two sons. He, however, denied committing the offence, while the judge, Mr Albert Maga, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000, with a surety in …
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