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The Federal Government through the minister of education, ADAMU ADAMU has hailed teachers for not embarking on strike despite what it tagged as “unfavorable and intolerable policies”. The minister made this known during the 2022 World Teachers Day celebration in Abuja. Speaking during the ceremony, ADAMU noted that teachers embraced the principle of constructive engage...

The House of Representatives has commenced the process of scrapping and merging ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with its Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Duplication of Functions of Agencies of the Federal Government commencing the move to reduce the cost of governance and ensure efficiency. The committee asked the MDAs to justify why they should remain in existence and as individual entities....

Speaker of the House of Representatives, FEMI GBAJABIAMILA, has met with President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, to present him with some recommendations on how to resolve the persisting ASUU strike.GBAJABIAMILA led the leadership of the House to see the President at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.While addressing State House correspondents after the meeting, the Speaker said the lawmakers are hopeful because the Pres...

The Federal Government has registered two unions in the university system.The unions are the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA).CONUA is a union for lecturers across the nation’s universities and it is led by a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, NIYI SUNMONU. The group was established in 2018 at OAU....

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI will on formally present the 2023 budget estimates before a joint session of the National Assembly. The budget presentation is set to be the last to be done by the President, as he will be leaving office next year before the next budget is presented. Some few weeks back, the Minister of Finance ZAINAB AHMED had proposed two options for the National Assem...

Two months after the jailbreak which saw over 800 inmates escape at the Kuje Medium Custodial Facility in Abuja, about 422 inmates are yet to be recaptured. Reports state that 879 inmates, including 64 high-profile Boko Haram terrorists fled the facility during the jailbreak. The Nigerian Correctional Service’s spokesperson, UMAR ABUBAKAR, had said five persons, including an offi...

A former Chief of Army Staff, General ABDURRAHMAN DAMBAZAU (retd.) has said that insurgency has gone beyond being a threat to Nigeria as it now affects about 15 countries in West Africa including the Benin Republic. DAMBAZAU, was Chief of Army Staff from August 2008 to September 2010 and Nigeria’s Minister of Interior between November 2015 and May 2019,  He however, sai...

Federal government has announced that the purported list of nominees for national honors being circulated by some online media organizations is fake.President MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S late Chief of Staff, ABBA KYARI, and 436 other names surfaced online over the weekend.Also on the list are the presidential spokesperson, FEMI ADESINA, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), ISHAQ OLOYEDE, and...

The leadership of the House of Representatives will on Tuesday meet President MUHAMMADU BUHARI to provide their own recommendations to resolving the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Sources say that the lawmakers are scheduled to meet with the President, and offer resolutions they have reached from the various stakeholders meeting that have took place in the past couple of weeks.&nb...

The Chief of staff to President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Professor IBRAHIM GAMBARI has given assurances that Nigeria will be a safer and more secure country before his principal leaves office on May 29, 2023. Professor GAMBARI, said this while speaking at the 20th convocation lecture of the graduating cadets of regular course 69 of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. Professor GA...