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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike on August 14, 2023, if the Federal Government fails to withdraw a lawsuit filed against organized labor. The NLC reached the decision during its National Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, according to a statement signed by the National President, Joe Ajaero, and the National Secretary, Emanuel Ugboaja. They accused the Ministry of Justice and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) of allowing themselves to be used as “anti-democracy” agents. NLC suspends protest after Tinubu consensus While confirming the union’s suspension of its protest…

President Bola Tinubu has adjudged the 2023 elections that brought him to power as the most credible ever in the history of Nigeria. The President stated this on Thursday at the National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC).He said, “Yes, we are facing challenges in court, but I think this is the most credible election in Nigeria. So, we must congratulate ourselves. As a democrat, those who cannot accept the results of a free and fair election do not deserve the joy of victory.”Speaking on the state of the party, which has produced the former governor of…

The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has sent a delegation to the Niger Republic with a mandate to expeditiously resolve the current political impasse in the country. The action was in tune with the resolution reached at the end of the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS held last weekend in Abuja. According to a statement by the president’s spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, the delegation, headed by former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), left for Niamey on Thursday following a briefing by President Tinubu at the State House in…

A vessel suspected to be carrying stolen crude oil has been intercepted in the Koko area of Delta State by men from Tanita Security Services. The interception took place on Wednesday while the 1117-ton vessel carrying about 8,100 barrels of crude was being escorted by some naval officers. Tanita Security Outfit is a private security company owned by Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, an ex-Niger Delta agitator who recently got a contract from the Federal Government to protect oil pipelines. Operatives of the Tanita Security say the vessel, with the name MT Praisel, was flying a Togolese flag and was…

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has halted the operations of Airport Taxi Services at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja with immediate effect. In a statement released by its director, public affairs and consumer protection, Yakubu-Funtua, FAAN said the decision followed the lingering factional crisis among the car hire operators which the authority stated, had been affecting airport car hire service operations.The statement read: “The FAAN wishes to inform the general public that the airport car hire service at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja has been suspended with immediate effect. “This is as a result of…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has confirmed cutting off power supply to the Niger Republic. TUC Kano State sub-region Public Relations Officer, Adam Umar El-Yandiski, confirmed the news when responding to question on a television programme. According to him, the connection that supplies power to the Niger Republic comes directly from the national grid; therefore, it has no connection with the supply of power to any region in the country. The move was part of putting pressure on the country’s coup leaders. Meanwhile, West Africa’s regional bloc said on Wednesday that a military intervention in junta-ruled Niger was “the…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is due to appear in court on Thursday to face charges he led a wide-ranging conspiracy built on lies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, culminating in a violent attack on the seat of American democracy. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is scheduled to appear in a magistrate’s courtroom at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT) in Washington, D.C., half a mile from the U.S. Capitol, the building his supporters stormed on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to stop Congress from certifying his defeat. In a 45-page indictment on Tuesday, Special Counsel…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) yesterday appealed to the Federal Government to give interest-free and soft loans to Muslims. In a statement released by its executive director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, the Islamic organization noted that it is forbidden for Muslims to receive or give interest on loans. Akintola said the call was in view of President Bola Tinubu’s promise, in his national broadcast on Monday, of palliatives, including interest loans of about N75bn at 9% interest, a N500,000 loan to N1m at 9%, and another N100bn transportation loan also at 9%, to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and…

The protest by Organized Labour against the removal of fuel subsidies by the Bola Tinubu administration is heating up as protesters broke down the first gate of the National Assembly (NASS) complex on Wednesday morning and forced their way into the premises. The protesters thereafter proceeded to the second gate of the Assembly Complex, even as Senators immediately entered a closed-door session. The Organized Labour Movement, which comprises the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and their affiliate unions, kicked off a protest today in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and other states of the Federation, including…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has blamed the recent increase in fuel prices from N537 to N617 on extortion by security agencies and arbitrary levies by government institutions. The IPMAN National President, Chinedu Okoronkwo, who spoke at a public hearing organized by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the Recent Hike in Petrol Pump Price on Tuesday, said those factors, combined with international pricing, led to an increase in the price of the product in the country. Okoronkwo told the legislators that IPMAN members are presently cash-trapped and cannot engage in direct importation of fuel as…