pdp Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has chided the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government that it has achieved nothing in its one year in office. PDP, mocking the former opposition party, said the only thing the APC can show to Nigerians as its achievement is just photographs. It said if…
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has been told to appear before the Senate over his threat to withdraw the license of any bank that retrenches its staff. The Senate said it finds the threat alarming and could create more problems. Chairman Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Rafiu Ibrahim, said…
The Nigerian government might have to deal with more groups in the Niger Delta following the floating of a new one called the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta. This new cabal has threatened to continue to attack oil and gas facilities across the Niger Delta region unless the Nigerian government agreed to award 60 per…
Members of the dreadful Boko Haram group have been forced to remain caged inside their stronghold in Sambisa Forest, the Nigerian military disclosed on Wednesday in a press conference. Commander of the counter-insurgency operation in the North-East, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, informed newsmen while highlighting the successes of the Nigerian troops against…
The industrial action threatened by the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, NARD, has commenced on Thursday, June 9, 2016. NARD had given the Federal Government a warning that it members would stay away from government-owned hospitals in the country unless their demands were met. President of the association, Muhammad Askira, announced on Tuesday,…
Publisher of ThisDay newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, has sacked the 13 workers who threatened him with an industrial action over the non-payment of their 12 months’ salaries. The affected members of staff are from the editorial department of the popular journal’s office in Abuja. In a memo issued on Tuesday, June 7, 2016, to Obaigbena, who…
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has been commended by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai. The commendation was for his men’s arrest of killer of late Colonel Samaila Inusa, who was abducted by some gunmen. Buratai, on behalf of the family of the slain officer, personnel of the Nigerian…
The employment of about 500,000 graduates without jobs by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government will kick off on June 12, 2016, a statement by the spokesman of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, has disclosed. In the statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday said the programme is the first roll-out of government’s N500 billion social…
Former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, was on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to what we gathered, Chime was questioned over N450 million presidential campaign funds. It was learnt that Chine was a guest of the anti-money agency body over his connection with…
An oil well belonging to Chevron in Delta State has been destroyed by the Niger Delta Avengers group. The new militant group disclosed that it blew up the oil facility in the wee hours of Wednesday, June 8, 2016. The latest attack is coming after the Nigerian government ordered troops out of the Niger Delta…