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Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, says the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) is disrespectful to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) by embarking on a strike. The resident doctors began a five-day warning strike on Wednesday due to the federal government’s inability to meet their demands. Some of the demands […]

A federal high court in Lagos has struck out a suit seeking the removal of Roger Brown, chief executive officer (CEO) of Seplat Energy Plc, over allegations of racism, favouritism towards expatriate workers, discrimination against Nigerians, and breach of good governance. The suit was filed on March 8, 2023, before Chukwuejekwu Aneke, the […]

Bolaji Abdullahi, former minister for youth development and sports, has put forward solutions for the perennial strikes, unsettling funding crisis, and issues bedevilling public universities in Nigeria. The former minister proffered solutions in a paper for Agora, an Abuja–based policy think tank. Abdullahi said the public university system holds up to 94 […]

Bola Tinubu, president-elect, says he will hit the ground running from the moment he is sworn in officially as president of Nigeria. In a statement on Wednesday, Tunde Rahman, aide to the president-elect, quoted his principal as making the remarks in a telephone conversation with Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, on Tuesday […]

Anthony Blinken, US secretary of state, says he is committed to further strengthening US-Nigeria partnership with the incoming administration of President-elect Bola Tinubu. Matthew Miller, US department of state spokesperson, said Blinken spoke with Tinubu, who is in France, on Tuesday. Miller said the two leaders “discussed the importance of inclusive leadership […]

A federal high court in Abuja has been asked to order the Nigeria Police Force to investigate and prosecute Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, before his inauguration on May 29. In a motion ex parte marked FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023 and filed on Tuesday, the incorporated trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), […]

Gunmen have reportedly killed four people in the Amiyi/Eke Ochuche communities of Ogbaru LGA in Anambra. Speaking on the incident, Ikenga Tochukwu, the police spokesperson in Anambra, said the gunmen attacked the convoy conveying staff of the United States consulate. He said the “hoodlums murdered two of the PMF operatives, and two […]

Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says senators-elect on the platform of the party should not be late to the inauguration of the 10th senate to prevent what happened in 2015. In 2015, Bukola Saraki, a former governor of Kwara, became the senate president against the plan of the […]