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The Nigerian Association of resident doctors (NARD) says it will embark on a warning strike over the failure of the federal government to meet its demands. Orji Innocent, NARD president told TheCable that the strike will commence at 8 am on Wednesday, May 17, and will end Monday, May 22, at 8 am. […]

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says nation-building is impossible without trust. Okonjo-Iweala spoke on Monday at an induction organised for elected governors in Abuja. Okonjo-Iweala said “a lot of trust” was broken following the general election and that no government can achieve growth and progress “without first of […]

Usman Baba, the inspector-general of police (IGP), says the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) will always defend the country’s democracy at all costs. Speaking at a news conference on Monday in Abuja, Baba said the May 29 inauguration at the federal and state levels is sacrosanct. The IGP said those planning to disrupt […]

A federal high court in Warri has restrained Lauretta Onochie, chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board, from carrying out executive functions and the day-to-day running of the agency. In a judgment delivered on May 9, Okon Abang, presiding judge, voided all executive actions taken by Onochie since she assumed office […]

The United States says it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on individuals in Nigeria who disrupted the recently concluded elections. Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, announced the development in a statement on Monday. Blinken clarified that the sanctions were specific to certain individuals and not the Nigerian people or […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national working committee (NWC) says the suspension of Ahmed Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna, by his ward executives, is “null and void”. On Sunday, the PDP Tudun-Wada ward in Kaduna state chaired by Saidu Aliyu suspended Makarfi over alleged anti-party activities. In the suspension notice signed […]

The consumer price index (CPI), which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, rose to 22.22 percent in April 2023, up from 22.04 percent in the previous month. The inflation rate data is contained in the latest CPI report released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). […]

The senate has upheld a finding by the office of the auditor-general (OAGF) which accused the federal ministry of justice of not following due process in the disbursement of sums awarded as judgement debt against the federal government. The OAGF report said between 2017 and 2018, N10.4 billion was earmarked as judgement debts, […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says distribution companies (DisCos) have been empowered to disconnect consumers who have not paid their electricity bills for at least 12 days. This is contained in the commission’s recently released ‘Customer Protection Regulations, 2023’. According to NERC, a DisCo may disconnect supply to a customer’s premises […]

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to obey the court order restraining the commission from further imposing fines on broadcast stations. On May 10, a federal high court in Abuja ruled that NBC lacks the power to impose penalties. James Omotosho, the presiding judge, said the […]