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Workers at the British Passport Office started a five-week strike as the civil service dispute over employment, pay, pensions, and conditions grew more acrimonious. In a worsening of the protracted dispute, more than 1,000 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) workers left eight locations. Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the PCS, said on Monday Picket lines will be set up in front of the buildings in Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, Southport, Peterborough, London, Belfast, and Newport, Wales, according to Serwotka. The union said those taking action will be supported by a strike fund. Serwotka had written to the government calling…

According to documents, the Federal Government borrowed more than N3.17 trillion in the first quarter. The government issued regular bonds, retail savings bonds, and treasury bills at the domestic capital market to generate N3.17 trillion over the last three months, according to data obtained by The Nation Economic Intelligence. In the fourth quarter of last year, the government’s borrowings more than doubled. It continued to be the biggest debt issuance in the previous ten quarters that The Nation crew had been tracking. The statistics showed that borrowings increased month after month in the first quarter of this year, with the…

Public opinion has been divided in response to the recent commissioning of ten high-capacity firefighting trucks by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika. Although some have applauded the action as a step towards enhancing security and emergency response at airports across the nation, others have expressed concerns about the expense of the vehicles and whether they are actually required. Sirika declared on Sunday that he had just commissioned ten firefighting trucks worth N12 billion via his official Twitter account. He said,”Just commissioned 10 Firefighting trucks, total cost of over 12Bn Naira. More to come in due course. Safety has been…

Before their terms expire on May 29, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret. ), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the 44 ministers in the Federal Executive Council will shortly begin disclosing their assets. Newsmen received confirmation from Dr. Mustapha Musa, Special Adviser to the CCB Chairman on General Duties, on Sunday that the required preparations had been made for the issuance of the assets forms to the departing officials and their successors. Additionally, in accordance with the 1999 constitution, the outgoing presidential aides, 28 state governors and their cabinet members, National Assembly and state assembly members, and chairmen of…

Barring a last-minute change of heart, the Federal Government will start demolishing the multibillion-naira private aircraft hangars at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos in the next one to two weeks. According to the Federal Government, the hangars were impeding the effective use of the international wing airport and needed to be removed to make room for the growth of the new international terminal that was constructed at the Lagos airport with Chinese loans. At the presentation of 10 new fire trucks at the Lagos airport, the minister of aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, announced the government’s plan and announced that…

Gunmen broke into the Christians Pentecostal Church in Akenawe, Tswarev in Ukemberagya/Tswarev of Logo local government area of Benue State, murdering one worshipper and capturing the pastor and four other people as Christians around the globe observed Palm Sunday. Our reporter learned from residents in the neighbourhood that the gunmen started the fire on the innocent attendees on Sunday around 11 a.m. while a healing service was taking place. A community leader and president of the Gaambe-Tiev Youths Association (GYA), Dr Hemen Terkimbi, confirmed the incident to our correspondent over the phone and revealed that at least one person was…

According to Mr Festus Olumati, harbour Manager, of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Calabar Port, the number of ships berthing at the harbour has significantly increased the local economy. While on watch duty at the port facility in Calabar on Sunday as more than four boats were unloading their different goods and fuel products, Olumati made this statement. According to the port manager, one of the ships, “MV Desert Unity,” berthed at the port with 16,000 metric tonnes of wheat, and “MV Medi Bangkok” berthed with 18,251 metric tonnes of general cargo, which included vehicles like automobiles and lorries as…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has proclaimed Faith Ugochi, a Port Harcourt-based prophetess and proprietor of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, wanted. The anti-narcotics agency is also seeking information on the whereabouts of a celebrity couple, Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen. The triumvirate allegedly recruited adolescent females into an international drug trafficking syndicate that operated from Los Angeles, United States. The NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO import warehouse of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, intercepted a consignment of 32.70 kilogrammes of loud. After freight agent, Ukoh Ifeanyi Oguguo was detained, further investigations led to the…

Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, stated on Sunday that he never advocated for or spoke on behalf of any candidate in the run-up to the country’s 2023 General Elections. Oyedepo made the remarks while speaking to the congregation at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State, in response to a leaked audio between the cleric and the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on the eve of the presidential poll discussing the mobilisation of Christians in Kwara and South-West states to vote for him (Obi). Meanwhile, while alluding to the allegedly stolen phone call…

The Nigerian Army’s troops and special forces killed 11 terrorists in intense combat during battling raids in Kaduna State’s Birnin Gwari Local Government Area. The troops advanced to several identified locations and cleared terrorists camps in Bagoma, Rema, Bugai, Dagara, Sabon Layi, Gagumi, Kakangi, Katakaki, and Randagi, according to Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State. During these activities, the troops came into touch with terrorists at Kakangi and Katakaki. Following an intense gunfight, the outlaws were subjugated by the soldiers’ bold weaponry. Eleven attackers were verified to have been killed, while others escaped. Following…