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Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has appealed to the electricity workers to suspend their proposed strike billed to begin on Aug. 17. The Managing Director, TCN, Dr Sule Abdulaziz, made the appeal in a letter to the workers on Tuesday following the threat …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday released a statement that it had recovered an additional sum of one billion, four hundred million naira (N1.4 billion) for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS. According to the statement, the money which was released to the NHIS on August 5, …

Both present and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have come under fire in the Senate for failing to justify its spending of N17.158 billion in 2013 with required evidential documents. Some of which were alleged to have been eaten up by termites. The N17.158 billion as stated in …

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that it will direct the withdrawal of services of all workers in Nigeria should the Federal Government fail to resolve the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has kept students at home for about six months. NLC President, …

Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor. …Denies Ordering Removal Of PDP Flags From Govt House Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said he did not filed any suit challenging the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Report had suffaced in the media on Friday claiming Wike had …

Adesina Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, has said Nigerians blame his principal for everything, including bad performance in bed. According to him, Nigerians blame Buhari because “resentment is their daily food and drink.” Adesina disclosed this in his weekly article shared on his …

COEASU logo The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has suspended its ongoing strike for 60 days to see if its demands would be met by the federal government. Smart Olugbeko, COEASU president, and general secretary, Ahmed Bazza, announced the suspension in a statement on Friday. The union said …

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State, has distanced himself from a purported suit said to have been filed by him seeking the removal of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023 general election. Wike who spoke to ThisDay on Friday, denied ever knowing …

Ifeanyi Okowa The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Comrade Uchenna Madu, Thursday, said the claim by Gov Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State to be of the Igbo extraction is politically motivated. Uchenna in a statement said, “Because of his nomination as …

CDS, General Lucky Irabor The Nigerian military says it has arrested two other high profile commanders of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) in connection with the deadly June 5, 2022 terrorist attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State. Director Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor, disclosed …