The presidency has described the planned strike action by the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC and Trade Union Congress TUC as ‘illegal, immoral, unjustifiable and irresponsible’. Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the President on information and strategy stated this in a statement on Monday. He said the labour unions’ decision to embark on a national work strike despite a court order restraining them from doing so is an ‘abuse of privilege.’ Read Onanuga’s statement below....

The National Assembly, NASS, on Monday, received eight brand new coaster buses from the NASS clerk, Magaji Tambuwal. Tambuwal donated the vehicles to the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, to cater for the transport needs of the staff given the soaring cost of transportation. The deputy Senate president, Senator Barau Jibrin, commissioned the buses. Jibrin said the gesture demonstrates the commitment of the Godswill Akpabio-led 10th NASS in addressing the wellbeing of staff. He...

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and its sister union, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, are going ahead with their planned nationwide strike despite being barred from doing so by the National Industrial Court in Abuja last Friday. The strike is to protest the battering of the NLC President Joe Ajaero by security agents in Imo State on November 1 as well as the “infractions and encroachments on the rights” of civil servants in the State...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced Governor Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Imo State. The umpire body also declared Usman Ododo of the APC as the winner of the governorship election in Kogi State. Based on the declaration by INEC, Uzodinma polled 540,308 votes to defeat Senator Samuel Anyanwu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party’s Athan Achonu, who polled...

To ensure environment free of any form of hazard, the Ogun State Government has shut down an agro-processing company named, Supreme Agro Limited in Igbesa, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state over industrial pollution. The Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya accused the company of engaging in serious industrial pollution that has destroyed the ecosystem of their host community. “The company was found guilty of industrial pollution as it discharges its untreated wastewater into Igbesa...