Striking members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, yesterday turned down persuasions from the Federal Government to call off the strike. The workers insisted that until…
Lagos signs MoU for transfer of Epe General Hospital to FG
Lagos State Government, on Thursday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the transfer of the Epe General Hospital to the Federal Government. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the MOU with the Minister of State for Health and…
Niger govt receives 50 motorcycles, three trucks to combat tuberculosis, others
Niger State Government has taken delivery of 50 Motorcycles and 3 pickup trucks presented to it by Global Fund in collaboration with the Federal Government to combat Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Malaria, and HIV. Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago received the donated items…
Implement agreements now, ASUU tells FG
The Yola zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the federal government to stop delaying action in its dealings with the union and to fully implement previously agreed-upon terms. In a statement issued on Wednesday,…
APC seeks probe into alleged diversion of FG’s rice in Kano
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an investigation into the alleged diversion of the rice donated by the Federal Government to the Kano State Government by some officials. The party also demanded the urgent prosecution of those likely…
FG to reverse merger of technical, science colleges
The Federal Government has announced plans to review the merger of federal technical colleges and science schools in the country to unbundle them. The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, disclosed this at a one-day stakeholders’ meeting on the Challenges…
Tinubu’s minister accuses Obaseki of repackaging FG’s rice
Minister for Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State of re-bagging food items from the federal government to give the impression that the state government sponsored such relief materials for the people of the…
Hardship: FG reveals how workers can buy subsidised 50kg rice at N40K
In a bid to alleviate the ongoing food crisis in Nigeria, the Federal Government has announced plans to sell a 50kg bag of rice at a subsidised rate of N40,000 to public servants. The initiative aims to mitigate the impact…
Protest: Accept FG’s olive branch, Ekiti Rep urges Nigerians
The lawmaker representing Ekiti North II in the House of Representatives, Akinlayo Davidson Kolawole, has called on Nigerians, especially youths, to accept the measures and palliatives of the Federal Government in its effort to persuade them to halt the ongoing…
Planned protest: FG begins to sell 50kg rice at N40k
THE Federal Government on Monday said it has started to distribute an additional 10 trucks of 50kg rice to each state to be sold at designated centres at N40,000 This is as the Federal Executive Council, FEC, has insisted that…