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Katsina State Independent Electoral Commission (KTSIEC) has declared the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner in 31 out of the 34 local government areas of the state. The LG election was held on Saturday. Lawal Faskari, secretary of the commission, who made the announcement in the early hours of Tuesday in […]

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) says the payment of “at least 75 per cent” lump sum to retiring workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) is not enough. The Pension Reform Amendment Bill before the national assembly suggested the new arrangement. A lump-sum payment is an often large sum that is paid […]

Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has asked the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to discuss concerns on their ongoing strike with the ministry of education. He said this on Monday after a meeting with the renegotiation committee in Abuja. An earlier strike declared by ASUU over the non-implementation of […]

Family members of passengers kidnapped during the recent attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train have issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the federal government to ensure the safe rescue of the abductees. The ultimatum was issued on Monday at the end of a meeting of the family members in Kaduna.  The development comes hours […]

Oil prices, on Monday, plunged 4 per cent amid concerns that the pandemic will cut demand in China.  Brent crude futures fell 4 5 per cent to $98.16 a barrel by 19:53 GMT +1, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude dropped correspondingly over 4 per cent to $94.51.  Some cities in […]

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget, and national planning, says the federal government has recovered N53.5 billion out of N5.2 trillion owed by its ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs). Ahmed disclosed this on Monday at the formal launch of Project Lighthouse Debt Analytics and Reporting Platform in Abuja. She said the project […]

A high court in Ogun state has ordered Zenith Bank Plc to pay N500,000 as damages for sending spam messages to one Omotola Fathiat Quadri. Quadri had, in the suit marked HCT/605/2021, sued Zenith bank for infringing on her fundamental rights to privacy as guaranteed under section 37 of the constitution. She […]

Jibrilla Bindow, former governor of Adamawa, has declared his interest to run for a second term in office on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bindow was governor of Adamawa between 2015 and 2019 before losing to Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking with journalists in Yola, […]