Popular Nigerian rapper and singer Divine Ikubor professionally known as Rema has shared that he is suffering from long-sightedness. The singer who disclosed this while speaking with Capital Xtra on the 2024 Brits Award red carpet said he uses glasses to adjust his sight. The interviewer asked the singer what he was seeing presently …
Read More »UCH doctors begin three-day strike over alleged assault
Resident doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan in Oyo State, on Thursday, began a three-day strike over alleged assault on one of their members by relatives of a patient in the hospital. The ARD President, John Oladapo, told newsmen in Ibadan, the …
Read More »12 years after, Tinubu adopts Oronsaye report, merges agencies
TWELVE years after it received the Stephen Oronsaye Report, the Federal Government, on Monday, approved the implementation of some of its recommendations to reduce the cost of governance. Consequently, 29 government agencies will be merged even as eight parastatals will be subsumed into eight other agencies. More so, four …
Read More »NLC suspends nationwide protest, extends ultimatum to FG
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its nationwide protests, which were held in different states of the federation earlier on Tuesday. The Labour, in a communiqué at the end of its National Executive Council meeting, said the objectives of the protest were achieved on the first day of …
Read More »Supreme Court swears in 11 Justices
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who conducted the ceremony charged the judges not to allow their ambition to cloud their sense of judgement. Speaking further at the swearing-in held at the main courtroom of the Supreme Court, the CJN told the new justices to be …
Read More »Protest will hold as planned – Nigeria Labour Congress
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that it will go ahead with its plan to protest the “mounting hunger and insecurity” in the country on Tuesday and Wednesday. Its President, Joe Ajaero, who said this in a statement on Sunday, accused the Federal Government of allegedly trying to …
Read More »Customs commences food distribution, sells 25kg of rice for N10,000
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, will today commence the sale of seized bags of rice to the public at the rate of N10,000 per 25kg . Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, Comptroller General of the NCS, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, said the process for the sale of the …
Read More »President Bola Tinubu appoints Kemi Nandap as new immigration boss
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of DCG Kemi Nanna Nandap to serve as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service. According to a statement by Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Wednesday, DCG Nandap takes over from Mrs. Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju, whose term in office expires on …
Read More »Nigerian senate asks President Bola Tinubu’s government to stop plan to remove subsidy on electricity
The Senate has passed a resolution urging the federal government to maintain the electricity subsidy in light of the prevailing hardship in the country. The lawmakers also kicked against the plans by the Ministry of Power to increase the electricity tariff. The Senate’s stance on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, …
Read More »Nigerian Senate to probe Buhari’s N30trn Ways and Means spending
There was a mild drama on Tuesday as the Senate resolved to revisit the N30 trillion Ways and Means it approved for the Federal Government under former President Muhammadu Buhari, the details of which it said were never provided for scrutiny. Specifically, the Red Chamber alleged that reckless …
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