The United States President, Joe Biden, has asked Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for a pause in fighting in Gaza. A White House spokesperson previously said the two leaders discussed the potential for “tactical pauses” in fighting in Gaza for humanitarian reasons and possible hostage releases during their conversation on Monday. There had been…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have declared a nationwide strike. NLC and TUC announced a total nationwide strike to take effect from next Tuesday, November 14, 2023. The agreement was reached by the two unions’ leaderships on Tuesday, November 7, in Abuja following an unusual meeting of the National…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Wednesday launch a birth, death, and marriage registration portal. The registration system includes all civil registrations such as birth registration, stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration and death. Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwarra, made this known at a pre-launch briefing…
The Confederation of All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups has appealed to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned nationwide strike. The group’s Director-General, Kailani Muhammed, made the appeal in a statement in Abuja on Monday, Nov. 6. Muhammed said that such planned action could disrupt the entire fabric of the economy…
The founder of the Movement of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, has accused the military of kidnapping four of his security guards. Uwazuruike alleged that military men invaded his country home in Onuimo Local Government of Imo State and abducted the security guards on Sunday…
The Oba of Lagos, Riliwan Akiolu, has urged the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, to unite and work with President Bola Tinubu to move Nigeria forward. Akiolu made the call while saying that God was behind Tinubu’s emergence as president. Speaking in London over…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, did not bring the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to court. This was in defiance to an order by the Federal Capital Territory High Court on Thursday, ordering the commission to either release him or produce him in court for the hearing…
A fire has broken out at the High Commission of Canada to Nigeria in Abuja’s Central Business District. Confirming the incident, the Head of Operations of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, told our correspondent in a phone interview that two people were fatally injured in the incident, while about three or four other…
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke has asked Nigerians to pray for her over the multi-million-pound allegations and charges of bribery and corruption instituted against her by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA). “I need prayers. Please pray for me,” she told members of the Nigerian community in the UK after the…
The Federal Government has allocated N15 billion for the comprehensive repairs of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, according to details from the recently passed N2.18 trillion 2023 supplementary budget. Also, the government has stated that it owes contractors of the Eko/Marine Bridges the sum of N11,400,024, 608 (N11.4 billion). The Federal Controller…