The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Public Service Negotiating Council(JPSNC), in Ebonyi Stat e, otherwise known as Organised Labour, have stated their preparedness to resume t he suspended strike they embarked to press home their demand for the implementa
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Voting about to commence proper as electorate has been enlightened on how to vote in to the respective boxes here in Ayobo
An 18-year old girl, Mary Ogah, has been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, in Ikeja, Lagos, for stealing jewellery valued at over N5million, belonging to one Mrs. Folashade Ogunnaike. Mary, and one other person at large, conspired on March 9, 2015 at Alausa secretariat, Ikeja in the Ikeja Magisterial District to commit felony […]
Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of Osun State Police Command have killed the leader of a six-man robbery gang on Tuesday while three others were arrested. It was gathered that the notorious armed robbery gang was involved in regular robbing of passengers on the Ife/Akure Ex-pressway. A source close to the state police […]
The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups, (COSEG), has taken a swipe at the leadership of the Oodua People’s Congress, (OPC), over what it tagged “brazen disregard for law and order and naked display of political ignorance, uncharacteristic of the Yoruba.” The group was reacting to the Monday rally of the OPC in Lagos, to […]
Students have been advised to shun acts of prostitution and election violence now that the country is seriously facing economic hardships, with the general election around the corner. The charge was given by the Education Secretary, Anglican Diocese on the Niger, Ven. Obiora Uzochukwu, on Tuesday, during this year’s Anglican Students Social Competition held at […]
No fewer than 35 persons are currently undergoing advanced training on practical protection skills and legal framework governing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Director (Protection) United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Nigeria (UNHCR) Mr. Herve Kuate, stated this while delivering his opening speech at a three-day training workshop organised by the
More residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, would soon begin to enjoy benefits of adequate water supply, as the FCT Water Board has resolved to increase its services, through increased and uninterrupted supply to the areas yet to access water. Arising from the first meeting of the year and also the 10th since […]
Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mohammed Sani Sidi, has appealed to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) to, as a matter of urgency, lend its support to Nigeria to enable it to provide necessary and efficient support to the Internally Displaced Persons IDPs. Sidi made the […]
House of Representatives Committee on Environment, yesterday, queried the management of the National Oil Spill and Detection Agency (NOSDRA) for its poor budgeting standards. Chairman of the committee, Hon. Uche Ekwunife, gave the damning verdict when officials of the agency appeared before the committee to defend its 2015 budget proposals. While chiding the agency for
A man, identified as Bobby Kotri, has been arrested by security operatives in Adamawa State for being in possession of 85 PVCs. The suspect who claimed to be a farmer was arrested Tuesday night during a stop and search operation carried out by men of the Nigerian Army in Song Local Government Area of the […]
Nigerian workers, under the umbrella of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will, today, go to the polls to elect executive members to pilot the affairs of the congress for the next four years, as the tenure of the incumbent president of the labour union, Abdulwaheed Omar, expires this month. The congress failed to elect a new […]
Several residents of Cross River State, armed with Temporary Voters Cards (TVCs) may, after all, not vote in the 2015 general election, commencing on March 28. Reason is that their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) are not available in the state INEC office, neither are their names on the INEC register. A number of people so […]
