Organised Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of the United Action Front of Civil Society have backed the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) nationwide strike billed for Wednesday, 2nd August and have also declared it Citizens Action Day. Olawale Okunniyi, Head, National Coordinating Centre, United Action Front of Civil Society, in a press statement on Monday noted that the mass protests nationwide on Wednesday is over anti people policies and arbitrary hike in petrol price The statement...

President Bola Tinubu has stated the willingness of the Federal Government of Nigeria to support global tech giant, Google Incorporated, to create one million digital jobs for Nigerians. Tinubu gave the assurance at the State House, on Friday evening during the visit of Google Global Vice President, Richard Gingras, to his office. The President told the visiting Google executive that Nigeria has creative and talented young people who are ready and motivated to learn especially...

…Charges Simon Ekpa to stop acting on his behalf Following an order by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), stopping all pending or future sit -at- home in the five eastern states of Abia, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu, reprieve may have at last come to the beleaguered Southeast region of Nigeria Kanu, in a hand written letter directed to Simon Ekpa, his Finland – based former sidekick, the...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Friday sent a list of its commissioner-nominees to the Lagos State House of Assembly for ratification. Among the 39-member list are, Afolabi Ayantayo, Jamiu Alli-Balogun, Rotimi Ogunwuyi, Gbenga Oyeriinde, Lawal Pedo (SAN), Mobolaji Ogunlende, Ibrahim Layode, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe, Toke Benson-Awoyinka, Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu, Abdulkabir Ogungbo,  Abiola Olowu, Dr. Adekunle Olayinka, Bolaji Cecilia Dada,Aramide Adeyoye. Others are Idris Aregbe, Yakubu Adebayo Alebiosu, Tokunbo Wahab, Bola Olumegbon, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih-Awokoya,...