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The Federal Government has set up a 14-man committee to review the recommendations of the Professor NIMI BRIGGS-led committee in charge of the renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement between government and university unions. The Spokesman of the Ministry of Education, BEN GOONG, disclosed this to newsmen, after a meeting of the Minister of Education, ADAMU ADAMU with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of federal universities....

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Poland’s President HUNDREY DUDA, to strengthen the collaboration between both countries in the Agriculture sector. President BUHARI disclosed this while briefing newsmen, after a state visit by President DUDA, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.The Polish President assured that that Poland would strengthen its economic r...

Fuel scarcity looms as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria in nine northern states has declared a three-day warning strike by withdrawing services at depots.Abuja, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger and other branches of IPMAN started the three-day warning strike today.The chairman of IPMAN in the northern states, YAHAYA ALHASSAN, announced the stoppage of the supply of the product from the depot due to the o...

Barely 24 hours after the abduction of 11 passengers in Ondo State, the Minister of Information, LAI MOHAMMED, has assured Nigerians that the military is restoring security to the country. MOHAMMED made the claim at a press briefing with the Ministers of Defense, Maj-Gen. BASHIR MAGASHI; Interior, RAUF AREGBESOLA; Police Affairs, MOHAMMED DINGYADI; and the Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. LEO IRABO...

The Federal Government has suspended the proposed excise duty on telecommunication services. The suspension was announced by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, ISA PANTAMI, during the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Committee on Excise Duty for the Digital Economy Sector in Abuja. According to the minister, the telecommunications sector is already overburden...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. IDRIS SALAKO, has resigned.His resignation comes barely 24 hours after a seven-storey building caved in, killing at least five persons with fears that more bodies will be recovered from the site. This was confirmed in a statement today by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, GBENGA OMOTOSO....

The Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is expected to file an official application at the Federal High Court Lagos this week against the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, OLAKUNLE OLUOMO and three others. The suit is an 11 count charge of conspiracy, forgery and stealing filed by the EFFC’s Lagos Head of Legal Monitoring Unit, ROTIMI OYEDEPO at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State....

A tanker explosion occured in the Matogun area of Ifo Local Government Area in Ogun state over the weekend, with a petrol tanker explosion burnt down several houses and shops, a hotel and a church building. Fortunately, no life was lost, as youths and other residents came quickly to put off the fire from spreading further. Some traders and residents of the area lamented the situat...

The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance has urged the Federal Government to immediately operationalize the tobacco control fund to protect Public Health from the destructive effects of Tobacco in Nigeria. The group made the comment in Abuja, during a press briefing, where the Chairman of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, AKINBODE OLUWAFEMI and some programme officers, CHIBINKEM NWOKORIE and SOLOMON ADOGA, said Nigeria has lost huge...

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. HAMEED IBRAHIM ALI has said that over 38 million liters of PMS released for consumption into the market is taken out of the country daily.ALI, who spoke at an interactive session with the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, questioned the NNPC for releasing ...