The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has condemned the increasing sequence of abduction and arrest of journalists in the country by security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force, under the guise of enforcing the Cyber Security Act, and warned of the consequence of such illegal actions on press freedom. The professional body of media executives…
The Police Service Commission has released a list of 10,000 successful applicants for recruitment into the constable and specialist cadres of the Nigeria Police Force. The spokesperson for the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, who made the development known in a statement on Tuesday, noted that it worked with guidance from relevant stakeholders, including the Nigeria Police…
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to come up with the cost Implications on the new minimum wage within two days. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known while briefing State House Correspondents after a meeting the negotiation team had with the president at Aso Rock,…
Nigerians Lamented the impact of the one day workers’ strike led by the organized labour-NLC and TUC leaders and their affiliate unions, on Monday, June 3. The cost of the strike is telling. On Day one of the strike access to critical institutions and offices were blocked by the protesters in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city,…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their industrial action over a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff. The TUC President Festus Osifo said this on Tuesday in Abuja after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions….
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday says it has no plans to revoke the licences of Unity, Polaris, and Keystone banks. Online reports had claimed the apex bank would terminate the licences of the three banks, following the revocation of Heritage Bank’s operational licence. However, in a post on its social media pages…
Fresh outbreak of Tuberculosis is raising the alarm and calls for urgent action, Ogbodo Ozioma Favour reports in this Special Feature Salient Rise of Tuberculosis Africa being the world’s second- largest and second-most populous continent with its lively cities and dotting landscape is the salient rise of Tuberculosis which was considered erased in the…
Korede Abdullah The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have lamented the scarcity of manpower across the healthcare facilities in the country. NARD made this revelation in a communique issued on Monday after its Ordinary General Meeting held in Kaduna from May 27 to June 1st, 2024, with the theme, ‘Journey towards universal health coverage:…
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city was on Tuesday morning, marking day 2 of the NLC and its affiliate bodies strke over minimum wage demand. Africa Health Report AHR, observed that vehicular movements around the nation’s capital were skeletal, as few workers reported for work. On Monday the Federal Secretariate was a shadow of itself, as many…
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) on Monday assured it will pay depositors of the failed Heritage Bank N5 million insured deposits, as it commenced the liquidation processes Director of Communication & Public Affairs, Bashir Nuhu, disclosed this in a statement. He said: “Following the revocation of the banking license of Heritage Bank Plc by…
