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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding with the federal government in an effort to end the ongoing strike. On August 1, NARD embarked on strike over “irregular payment of salaries”, among other issues. Efforts of stakeholders, including the house of representatives, to mediate …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked the convoy of the emir of Bungudu, Hassan Attahiru, along Abuja-Kaduna highway. Mr. Attahiru is a monarch in Zamfara State. Credible sources confirmed the abduction of the monarch to Daily Nigerian, saying the attackers opened fire on the convoy and successfully demobilized some …

David Yonggi Cho, co-founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea, is dead. Cho, previously called Paul, reportedly died on Tuesday morning after a battle with brain hemorrhage. The popular South Korean minister was 85. Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, died at a …

Dr David Yonggi Cho has gone to be with Jesus. At the age of 85 (1936-2021). He died on the 14th of September, 2021. David Yonggi Cho (born 14 February 1936 as Paul Yungi Cho) is a South Korean Christian minister. With his mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil, he is cofounder of …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told striking doctors and other health workers to return to their duty posts, saying embarking on industrial action when Nigerians need them the most is not the best action. According to him, his regime has …

Share The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has said that about N5.4trn has been lost to tax evasion by multi-nationals corporations operating in the country from 2011 to 2021. It also said that the Nigerian government has in the last 13 years spent about N6trn in its fight against terrorism. …

The Law Students’ Association of Nigeria (LAWSAN) has called on state and federal governments to compensate victims of insurgency and banditry across the country. This came as the association expressed   concern about frequent attacks, kidnappings and killings in Borno, Imo, Kaduna, Benue and Plateau States, amongst others. “We vehemently …

A forensic company, Sentinel Forensic Limited, has said that bullets expelled from firearms during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos on October 20, 2020, were from the Nigerian Army. According to a report by Channels TV, the company’s representative, Joseph Kayode Funsho, disclosed this during an appearance before the Judicial Panel of …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has stopped the governments of Rivers and Lagos from collecting Value Added Taxes (VAT). In a ruling on Friday, Justice Haruna Simon Tsanami, also directed that the law passed by Rivers State House of Assembly and assented to by Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike be …

The National Youth Service Corps has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Health Insurance Scheme on the inclusion of Corps Members in the NHIS programme. NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim who stated this when he led a delegation of the management of the Scheme to the Headquarters …