Teachers in Benue State say they are facing a lot of hardship due to the over 13 months of salaries owed them by the government. Our correspondent reports that some of the public primary school teachers have taken to petty trading and farming after school hours to meet some of their household needs. But, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says it will cost the federal government N1.8 trillion in interest if the national assembly fails to approve N23.7 trillion in extra-budgetary spending. The president had asked the national assembly to approve the sum he said were funds provided by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through loans for “emergencies” in […]
No fewer than 583 Nigerians have died of Cholera in 2022, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, a gramme-negative rod-shaped bacterium. In Nigeria, cholera is an endemic and seasonal disease, occurring annually mostly during the rainy season and more often in […]
The check-off dues deducted by the Federal Government from the November 2022 salaries of university lecturers were not remitted into the account of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH has learnt. Check-off due is the money deducted from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents workers […]
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee has opened invitations for lawyers to apply for the 2023 award for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria at N1m, per applicant. The LPPC, in a notice issued by its Secretary/Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Bello, stated that the purchase of the application which began on […]
The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, by an elder statesman, and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, on Tuesday has further confirmed that the party must reconcile with the five aggrieved governors. The party’s Deputy National […]
The intelligence network of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB has accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi of solidly behind the continued detention of the leader of IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the Directorate of State Services, DSS facilities in Abuja. A competent intelligence gathering source revealed that […]
The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to live together, adding that no one has the right to lord over others. The former governor of Lagos State also urged Nigerians, regardless of political affiliation, to join hands against violence, hunger, ignorance and bigotry. Tinubu said this […]
Barely 24 hours after gunmen attacked his convoy and killed four police orderlies, former Imo State Governor Chief Ikedi Ohakim on Tuesday reported at the Department of State Services (DSS) in Owerri. He is believed to have briefed the secret police on the attack. The gunmen late Monday attacked his convoy and threw explosives […]
Wednesday 4 January 2023 Lagos students lodge colleagues in hotels for sex romps Doctor who raped wife’s niece said virginity outdated – Witness IGP regulates investigation process against duplications US carries out first execution of transgender person Lawyers to pay N1m for SAN rank application Soldiers, touts clash in Lagos Presidency: Clark, Ortom endorse […]
