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The Federal Government has dismissed a video clip making the rounds that the Nigerian Embassy in Cotonou, Benin Republic had been attacked. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinand Nwonye, refuted the claim yesterday in a statement in ...

The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has called for the expanded membership of the inter-agency committee on downstream automation with full recognition of its members. IPMAN Chairman, Kano Unit, comprising Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Yobe states, Alhaji Bashir ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Abdullahi Adamu Candido, imploring him to “urgently withdraw and revoke the bill/edict for the unconstitutional and illegal payment of life pensions to former ...

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has appealed to workers to shelve their planned nation-wide strike to protest against non-implementation of the new national minimum wage, saying such action would amount to an effort in futility. Fayemi, who is also chairman ...

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Professor Zana Akpagu, has approved the immediate suspension of one Obio, Godswill Okon of the Department of Physical Oceanography over alleged cult activities. Obio, who is a fourth-year student with registration ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ntufam Mba Ekpezu Ukweni, has cautioned Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade against employing fresh workers and retrenchment of employees in the state as polling agents. The governor threatened to sack some workers whom ...

Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk, and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2019 and 2018 as the prize was not awarded last year. Olga Tokarczuk, who was 10/1 and Peter Handke, 20/1, upset bookmakers’ prediction ...

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Akwa Ibom State chapter, has expressed disappointment over a statement credited to its Publicity Secretary, Reverend Aniebet Emmanuel that the council has a pending case of alleged financial misappropriation. It, therefore, cautioned its members against ...

Yakubu, Bello, Wada seek violence-free Kogi guber election The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in Zamfara State and recovered N65.5m. A statement issued in in ...

The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has urged organised labour to shelve its planned October 16, 2019 nationwide strike over the non-implementation of minimum wage for grade levels seven to 17. Speaking when he visited the Minister of Labour and ...