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The Christian Association of Nigeria on Thursday called on Nigerians to bear with President Bola Tinubu and give him a chance to fix the country. The organisation also commended Tinubu for taking proactive steps to avert the proposed strike by the Nigeria Labour…

The Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has declared an indefinite strike in three hospitals over the death of one of its members, Dr Diaso Vwaere, after an elevator crash. The NMA, in a statement Wednesday by its Chairman, Dr.…

Defence Chiefs from Mali, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Guinea are conspicuously absent from the meeting currently ongoing in Abuja. Defence Chiefs from Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia, Cote D’Ivoire, and Cape Verde are in attendance at…

A medical doctor, Dr. Vwaere Diaso, Tuesday, died at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, after an elevator she took crashed. According to findings by our correspondent, the hospital elevator that killed the late Diaso crashed from the 10th floor to the ground…

Organised labour will today launch its planned nationwide protest against what it called “anti-poor policies” implemented by the federal government including the recent hike in fuel price. At the forefront of the labour centre’s grievances is the recent removal of fuel subsidy which…

A small aircraft has crashed in the Oba Akran area in Ikeja, Lagos State. The Spokesman for the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Tunji Oketunbi, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Tuesday afternoon. Also, an official of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday night, faulted the palliative measures announced by President Bola Tinubu to cushion the biting effect of petrol subsidy removal on Nigerians, saying the programmes to be rolled out by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government…

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has dismissed documents in circulation purporting that its Director General, Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar, spent millions of dollars in travels during the Covid-19 pandemic, describing them as manufactured. In a statement from the commission, it insisted that the accusation…

The Nigeria Labour Congress has commenced mass mobilisation ahead of its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal. In a schedule obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, the NLC urged Nigerians…