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Following the abduction of the wife of one of its member, Mrs. Christiana Ekanem, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Cross River chapter has embarked on an indefinite strike. The captive, an assistant director at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Hadiza Bala Usman for a second and final term of four years in office as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). This is even as the president also approved the reconstitution of the ...

Eight days after the Senate approved the $22.7 loan request for President Muhammadu Buhari, federal lawmakers from the South East geo-political zone yesterday called on the leadership of the National Assembly to accommodate the region in the facility. A report ...

Worried about the moves by the six geopolitical zones to individually have their areas urbanised through development commissions, Senate President Ahmad Lawan has charged the Federal Government to address the challenge through a structured national planning. Besides the Niger Delta ...

The Nigerian Navy has restated its determination to sanitise the waterways for hitch-free legitimate maritime activities. Its Commanding Officer for Forward Operation Base (FOB), Ibaka in Mbo Local Council of Akwa Ibom State, Captain Peter Yilme, renewed the pledge yesterday ...

Prominent Nigerians have opposed the proposed bill in the Senate to prosecute persons who import, sell and use electricity generating sets in the country. Tagged: “A Bill for an Act to prohibit/ban the importation/ use generating sets,” it was sponsored ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged the 2020 Batch A, Stream One National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) members to take advantage of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme to become economically independent after their mandatory one-year service. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that restoration of the Argungu Agricultural and Fishing Festival after 11 years of its suspension is a manifestation of improved security in the country. He stated this in his address at the official recognition of ...

The Niger Delta Leaders and Stakeholders Forum (NDLSF) has alleged that a cabal nursing presidential ambition in 2023 is orchestrating the crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Canvassing support for the embattled National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, ...

Some senators have raised concerns that details of the Bill for an Act to amend the Finance Act, 2019 were not made available to them for their input as the upper legislative chamber passed it for second reading. Senate Minority ...