Palliatives: TUC Accuses FG, States Govts Of Owing Workers March, April Wage Award

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has accused the Federal and State Governments of owing workers wage ‘award for the months of March and April, 2024. Comrade Festus Osifo, President of the TUC has called out both arms of government while briefing the media on the fallout of its National Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Thursday. According to Osifo, while a few states were up and doing regarding the payment of the wage award...

Ex-VP of ECOWAS Court Condemns EFCC Chairman Over Press Conference On Yahaya Bello

Professor Nwoke Friday Chijioke, former Vice President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, has condemned the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over the press conference he conducted in relation to conversations around former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. While speaking on Channels TV on Thursday, Chijioke criticized the EFCC’s approach, denouncing it as an unfair trial and labelling it as a form of media trial. He noted the importance of...

NERC Cedes Electricity Market Regulatory Oversight To EERB

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has ceded its regulatory oversight of the electricity market to the Ekiti State Electricity Regulatory Bureau (EERB). NERC stated that while it exercises regulatory oversight of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) as the major regulatory agent,  however  in accordance with powers conferred by the Electricity Act 2023, its current ceding  was is part of the legal requirement to decentralise the  operations of Gencos and  DisCos in Nigeria, as...

CNG: NMPDRA Expresses Commitment To Support PCNGI Secure Concessionary Pricing

The Nigerian Mainstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMPDRA) has expressed commitment to supporting the efforts of the Federal Government through the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI), aimed at managing, financing and developing domestic CNG vehicles for Nigeria transportation market through the provision of a special concessionary pricing to Mobility CNG under its pricing framework for gas in the country. Mr. Farouk Ahmed to the Programme Director/Chief Executive of the PCNGI this was stated...

Afenifere Dissociates Itself From Agitators Calling For Exit of Yoruba From Nigeria

Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, has dissociated itself from the call by agitators for exit of Yoruba from Nigeria, describing the call as undesirable, self-serving and unnecessary. Afenifere in a press statement on Tuesday issued by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi maintained that the problems bedeviling Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole “are not merely because multi-ethnic groups make up the country, rather, the country’s multifarious problems can be traced...

Presidential CNG Initiative Committee, Ready To Rollout Critical Assets For Deployment

…Announces Plan To Produce 600 Buses In First Phase In a bid to reduce the burden of increase in pump price on the masses, the Federal Government provided N100 billion (part of the N500 billion palliative budget) to purchase 5500 CNG vehicles (buses and tricycles), 100 Electric buses and over 20,000 CNG conversion kits, alongside spurring  the development of CNG refilling stations and electric charging stations. The committee driving the initiative is set to deliver on...

Boko-Haram Launches Attacks In Niger Communities, Killing Scores

Suspected Boko-Haram terrorists have launched attacks on communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State over the weekend, killing scores, including soldiers. The state military joint task force with some local vigilantes had earlier at Alawa and Erena countered incursions by the suspected Boko-Haram in a fierce gun duel at Lolo in Alawa axis leading to casualties from both sides. Among the casualties on both sides during the encounter with the suspected terrorists at...

JAMB Sanctions Officials For Asking Muslim Candidate To Remove Hijab

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sanctioned some of its accredited officials of the board for asking a hijab-wearing candidate at Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to remove her headgear. According to a report, the officials, at one of the examination centres in Lagos, had insisted that removal of the hijab by the candidate was a prerequisite for her to have access into the examination hall. The Board deeply regreted the incident...

..Threatens Legal Action The camp of one of the foremost aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primary election in Ondo State, Dr. Olusola Oke has said that there was no election in Ondo State and so there can’t be a rescheduled election. Recall that the APC held its primary election on Saturday to elect its candidate ahead of the gubernatorial election, in which the incumbent Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa was said to have won...

APC Derides PDP, Describes NEC Communique As “Wailing Of Shambolic Party”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been derided by the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the ruling party describes the communique it (PDP) issued at the end of its 98th National Executive Committee meeting of Thursday April 18, 2024 as nothing short of the hoax and wailing of a shambolic party. The press statement signed by Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary of APC, stressing that unsurprisingly, the PDP failed to seize the opportunity of...

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