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Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has raised the alarm over the preponderance of redundant skill acquisition centres worth over N8 billion in the Niger Delta. Akpabio made the disclosure yesterday at a roundtable on Strategic Implementation Work ...

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), ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike in the interest of students. He also urged the lecturers to consider negotiating with the Federal Government ...

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 ...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has refuted alleged diversion of research grants by some lecturers in Nigerian universities. This was contained in a letter sent to the Managing Director of Premium Times by Acting Director of Research and Development and Centres ...

A Federal High Court, Lagos has declared that a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for next week Tuesday must not hold without former Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, Waziri Bulama and Paul Chukwuma. ...