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Several unions reportedly took to the streets in major cities to protest against the recently passed Aviation Act, 2022. The General Secretary of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, FRANCES AKINJOLE, says the workers are kicking against an Essential Service clause in the Aviation Law which categorized aviation workers as essential service providers. The...

Some residents of Lagos State has lamented the impact of heavy rainfall and the attendant floods that affected several parts of Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre. The early morning rainfall, which lasted about four hours, caused floods in many Lagos communities and forced motorists and road users to wade through gridlock and flooded roads to get to their respective destinations and handle their businesses....

The National Industrial Court has adjourned the suit filed by the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities till Friday, September 16. In the suit, the Federal Government is seeking a court order to mandate the striking university lecturers to call off their strike and resume work. The lecturers have been on strike since February 14. After the court heari...

Police officers in Kaduna State have rescued three people who were kidnapped by bandits in the Ikara Local Government Area of the state. The officers also recovered firearms and ammunitions as well as vehicles and motorcycles used by the bandits for their operations. In a statement by the spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP MOHAMMED JALIGE, said one of the rescued v...

Pensioners of the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have taken to the streets to protest the non-payment of their gratuity and pension arrears running into billions of Naira for over 20 years. The pensioners were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions, asking the Federal Government’s agency in charge, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorates (PT...

The Federal Government has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the National Industrial Court over the union’s ongoing strike which is in its seventh month.In a statement, the Head of Press and Public Relations at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, OLAJIDE OSHUNDUN, said the Federal Government took the decision after dialogue between it and ASUU failed.The government has requested that the National Industrial Court order ASUU...

Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Minister of Works and Housing, BABATUNDE FASHOLA, has said elections can be won without politicians delving into negative comments against one another.He said such developments will bring the nation towards global disrepute. The Former Lagos Governor made this known at a lecture held in Lagos to discuss Nigeria’s democracy for 23 years....

Nigerian President, MUHAMMADU BUHARI has felicitated with the royal family after the news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom. In a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, GARBA SHEHU, the president said the queen who was the longest reigning monarch was the only British Sovereign known to 90 percent of Nigeria’s population. ...

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died in Balmoral at age 96, after reigning for 70 years. With her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales, will lead the country in mourning as the head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms. ...

To Education matters, the Minister of Education ADAMU ADAMU has said there is no problem with Nigerians trooping out of the country to acquire education.He made the statement in an interview on a monitored television programme, where he said that the bone of contention is making Nigerian universities attractive to foreign students, to balance the equation.ADAMU also disclosed that Nigerians do not have good reasons ...