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The Federal Government is scheduled to meet with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) today to discuss the proposed elimination of fuel subsidy. Joe Ajaero, the National President of the NLC, made the announcement during an interview with a Channels television on Wednesday morning. Details later…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has advised petroleum product merchants not to make residents’ lives unpleasant by stockpiling and raising pump prices. Mr. Muhammad Muazu, Commandant of the Corps in Zamfara, gave the warning in a statement published by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ikor Oche, and made accessible to newsmen in Gusau on Wednesday. According to him, the Corps has been dismayed by the unjustified artificial shortage of petroleum goods caused by marketers in reaction to President Bola Tinubu’s announcement that subsidies on the items will be removed. Two teenage girls drown in Jigawa –…

The National Industrial Court affirmed the Federal Government’s no work, no pay policy in a challenge brought against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to the court, the federal government’s no work, no pay policy imposed on ASUU strikes last year was fully legitimate. In a decision made by the Court’s President, Justice Benedict Kanyip, the court ruled that the Federal Government has the power to withhold wages from workers who engage in industrial action. The court, however, held that it is a violation of university autonomy for the federal government to impose the Integrated Payroll and Personnel…

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have told President Bola Tinubu not to dare Nigerians with the removal of subsidies. In a separate statement, the two labour unions advised President Tinubu not to dare the Nigerian people, saying any attempt to further inflict hardship on Nigerians would be met with resistance. In a statement signed by its president, Comrade Joe Ajero, the NLC stated that it is “outraged” by the removal of the fuel subsidy. The statement reads, “We at the Nigeria Labour Congress are outraged by the pronouncement of President Bola Tinubu…

Dr. Rahman Adedoyin, owner of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, has been sentenced to die by hanging by Osun State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo for murder. California man bags 25 years for Kristin Smart’s murder Previously, Justice Ojo ruled that Adedoyin, the owner of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, where Timothy Adegoke, an OAU postgraduate student, was reportedly killed, was guilty of manslaughter. According to Justice Ojo’s ruling, the owner of the hotel and two of his employees are found liable for conspiracy to commit manslaughter and unlawful killing of the dead based on the circumstances of the case…

The Osun State Government has threatened to close down filling stations in the state over the hoarding of petrol by marketers in reaction to the subsidy removal announced by President Bola Tinubu yesterday. The state government described the hoarding of gasoline by marketers as inhuman and a deliberate act of wickedness to bring untold hardship to the inhabitants of the state. Hoodlums attack firefighters as fire engulfs filling station in Abuja Olawale Rasheed, the governor’s spokeswoman, said in a statement that the state government will not condone marketers’ actions, calling them unpatriotic. The statement reads thus: “The attention of the…

The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has refuted reports making the rounds that its officials closed the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over ownership of the premises. Reports on Tuesday morning stated that the armed men of the DSS stormed and barricaded the Ikoyi premises of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, preventing its officials from going into the office. Reacting to the report in a statement, the Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, Peter Afunanya, faulted the report, stating that DSS was only occupying its “facility where it is carrying out its official and…

The Kogi State Government has initiated an investigation into the deaths of five of its citizens, who died when their car crashed into a canal in the state on Friday. Kingsley Fanwo, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, announced this in a statement issued in Lokoja on Monday. Five Kogi residents were killed on Friday when their automobile crashed into the Omi Dam canal along the Niger River in the state’s Yagba West Local Government Area. Only one of the five occupants of the car survived by swimming to safety, supported by a good Samaritan, a fisherman, who regrettably…

The newly sworn-in President of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu, has made his first set of appointments as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In the appointments, he selected Ambassador Kunle Adeleke as the President’s State Chief of Protocol (SCOP). He also named Dele Alake, a former Lagos State Commissioner of Information, as Presidential Spokesman and Olusegun Dada as Special Adviser, Digital Media. President Tinubu made these appointments following his inauguration yesterday. The President, who has hit the ground running, has also made a few decisions, like the removal of fuel subsidies, which have generated mixed…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan stated that members of his cabinet were afraid of being imprisoned if the immediate previous President, Muhammadu Buhari, was elected in 2015. Jonathan stated in an interview on Monday that some of his cabinet members believed he would flee the nation, but he stayed. Jonathan said, “In my own time especially in the 2015 elections, my ministers, my senior officers, people who worked with me; there was this fear that having lost the election, what would be our fate? Would the new government just throw all of us into jail without giving a fair hearing? Because…