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French railway workers and civil servants have voted to join striking oil refinery staff with a walkout next week, raising fears that anger over the rising cost of living could spiral into a series of blockages....

President Muhammmadu Buhari has appealed to Member-States of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) to remit their outstanding Annual Assessed Contributions to the Secretariat....

The Edo State Police Command says it has rejigged its security architecture and put in place mechanism to deal with the exigencies of the ember months....

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has reacted to the decision of the Appeal Court to discharge the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu....

The Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed says the Federal Government is not seeking debt restructuring from global financial institutions but extension of repayment period and possible bond buy back....

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 126 Nigerians from Libya....

The Ogun State Government has sealed off four private hospitals in the Papalanto and Obada area of the State for various offenses. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, during a monitoring and compliance exercise, revealed that the move was informed by the unprofessional conduct of medical staff, medical negligence, and unhygienic hospital environment among other offenses.  ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its over eight month old strike today. Although the union is yet to make an official announcement, sources within the national executive committee of the union confirmed to newsmen that the decision was reached at the end of the NEC meeting which started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja....

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has discharged the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, NNAMDI KANU, 16 months after his arrest and repatriation into the country. KANU is being prosecuted by the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 15 count-charge bordering on treasonable felony, terrorism, and offences he allegedly committed in the course of his separatist campaigns....

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the circumstances and reason for the recent destruction of the illegal oil bunkering vessel by security operatives in the Niger Delta....