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Workers have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Rivers State government to resolve the issues concerning the implementation of the new national minimum wage or risk industrial action. A source in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) told journalists that the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to clinically finish the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East to restore peace in the region. Inaugurating the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) at the State House, Abuja, the President ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has welcomed the government’s decision to reduce the pump price of petrol from N145 to N125 per litre. In a statement yesterday in Lagos by its state chairman, Akin Akinrinade, the union, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the diversification of Nigeria’s economy had become urgent in the face of the falling oil prices at the international market. He observed that digital technologies had become useful tools in this regard, adding that ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors and other leaders nationwide to be open to criticisms. Receiving members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its chairman, Ademola Babalola, ...

The Abuja chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged irregularities in salary payment and shortfalls since the introduction of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) by the Federal Capital ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Delta State branch has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of “deliberately shutting down the Warri Refinery in order to facilitate activities at the Dangote facility, which is still under construction.” ...

The Federal Government has earmarked about N20 billion for the completion of sections one to four of the East-West Road awarded to contractors 14 years ago. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, who disclosed this in Abuja during a ...

Communities in Cross River have decried a mystery fire that destroyed their crops worth millions of naira. The affected settlements, Agba, Bansan and Obubra, in Boki council area of the state last week woke up to the terrifying news. The ...

The House of Representatives has set up an ad hoc committee to probe abandoned power projects by the Federal Ministry of Power since 2018. The panel is to revert in four weeks for further legislative action. The resolution followed the ...