Sanwo-Olu witnesses historic moment, commits contractor to December completion deadline …Two sets of light train coaches to arrive in Lagos October The race to the completion of the 27-kilometre Lagos Blue Line Rail Mass Transit has begun, with the launch of the last track beam (T-beam) of the rail track on Wednesday. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu…
Members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum are currently meeting at the State House Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja. The governors are meeting over the state of the nation’s economy, insecurity, and healthcare, among other issues. According to a statement signed on Tuesday by the Forum’s Director of Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque…
Many parts of the country are currently experiencing power outages as members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) commenced an indefinite industrial action today August 17, IGBERETV reports. Members of the electricity union are protesting the nonpayment of outstanding arrears owed to former workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN),…
The presidential panel that probed Ibrahim Magu has accused the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of killing high-profile cases while chasing after Internet fraudsters, popularly known as “Yahoo Boys”. In the final report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2020, the EFCC under Magu was said to have secured…
National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has called off its nationwide strike.The decision followed an emergency meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige on Wednesday. The minister’s spokesman Olajide Oshundun, announced that Ngige intervened in the industrial action. NUEE Secretary General, Joe Ajaero, assured that electricity would be restored across the country…
A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists. The sentencing by Saudi’s special terrorist court was handed down weeks after the US president Joe Biden’s visit to…
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, Wednesday, has stated that Nigerian students should not vote for politicians who have their children studying in institutions outside the country. Osodeke was speaking on a Twitter Space Webinar, organised by Premium Times and tagged, ‘ASUU strike, Revitalisation Fund and the Way Forward.’ Speaking…
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has reacted to comments by Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, where he said they had no basis to reject the proposed deductions of $418 million from the Paris Club refund. The governors said all claims made by the AGF were lies and his actions self-serving and fraudulent…
The Borno state Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has approved the immediate implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage to 4,491 qualified teachers under the payroll of Local Government Education Authority in the state with effect from August, 1, 2022. Recall that the State Government under the leadership of Governor Zulum faced accusations in the social media last week…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has refuted claims that it spent N18.9billion on bush clearing during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The ministry in a statement by its Director of Information, Dr. Joel O. Oruche, noted that the statement, which emanated from the House Public Account Committee, must have been quoted out of…