Category: Politics
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The Trade Union Congress on Saturday said the suspension of its October 1 nationwide strike was a temporary move. It noted that it remained conditional upon the fulfillment of the promise by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to fulfill the conditions enlisted in the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Federal Government and the Organised…
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President Bola Tinubu has pulled the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, out of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, effectively paving way for the Nyesom Wike-led FCTA to utilize the territory’s Internally Generated Revenue IGR for the development of the nation’s capital. At a news conference Friday in Abuja, Wike also disclosed that the President has…
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Former minister, Senator Bello Maitama Yusuf, has died aged 76. Yusuf, a former Senator from 1999-2007, died in the early hours of Friday at his residence in Kano after a brief illness. A family member, Alhaji Hussani Dalhatu, confirmed his death to newsmen. He said the late Sardauna of Dutse’s funeral prayer would take place…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed an immediate Action Plan to halt the impending flood crisis nationwide. Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Media & Communications, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to the statement, Tinubu, represented by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, made…
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The Coalition of Ex-agitators of Niger Delta says it is preparing for a showdown with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for allegedly excluding Niger Deltans from the recent award of pipeline maintenance contracts. The ex-militant leaders said it was insensitive and provocative for the NNPCL to award pipeline maintenance contracts to only northern companies.…
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The Senate on Friday, October 6, said it would give the proposed new minimum wage bill from the Executive arm of government expeditious consideration towards ensuring improved welfare for Nigerian workers and industrial harmony in the country. The Chairman Senate Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity, Senator Diket Plang (APC – Plateau Central), disclosed this…
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has told his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, that he actually won the 2023 election and he is in the Supreme Court to reclaim his mandate. Obi said this in response to the appeal by Atiku that he should join him in the legal…
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Caleb Westberg, registrar of Chicago State University in a deposition done at the office of Atiku Abubakar’s lawyer, Angela Liu affirmed many times that President Bola Tinubu was a student of the university, who graduated in 1979, in flying colours. The registrar made it clear that the university does not have a copy of the…
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has said he will drop his fight with President Bola Tinubu after the Supreme Court rules on his appeal against the judgement of the tribunal. Atiku, who finished behind Tinubu in the election, had challenged the victory…