Nigerian Nurses have dragged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, to court over its recent circular for requesting verification of certificates for nurses and midwives to foreign nursing boards or councils. Also joined in the suit as 2nd defendant is the Registrar/Secretary General of NMCN, Dr. Faruk Umar Abubakar. The circular […]
Ayodele Fayose, ex-governor of Ekiti, says former President Muhammadu Buhari is “not a blessing” to Nigeria. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, Fayose said the administration of Buhari “drew us back to 50 years of our history”. Over the past few months, Nigerians have been battling economic hardship as the prices […]
Monday 26 February 2024 NLC protest: Presidency, police issue fresh warnings as 65 groups pull out Govs, Elumelu, Dangote make Tinubu’s economic advisory panel Food smuggling: Customs to man 1,500 illegal routes with drones FG to revive 46 abandoned housing projects nationwide EFCC recovered N60bn in 100 days, says Olukoyede Villagers plan mass burial […]
President Bola Tinubu has set up a tripartite economic advisory committee in what he described as part of his efforts in stabilising Nigeria’s economy. The committee, which comprised representatives from the Federal and State governments as well as the Organised Private Sector, was assembled and announced by the President during a meeting he held […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to shut down its services all over the country if labour members are attacked during its planned two-day protest beginning February 27, 2024. The Labour, in a statement on Sunday, signed by its President, Joe Ajaero, said there is no going back on the planned industrial action. […]
At least 15 civilians were killed and two others injured during a “terrorist” attack on a Catholic church during Sunday mass in northern Burkina Faso, a senior church official said. “We bring to your attention a terrorist attack which the Catholic community of Essakane village was the victim of today, February 25, while they […]
The private residence of the Minister of State Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mariya Mahmoud, was completely razed by fire on Sunday afternoon, TheNation reports. According to findings, nothing was salvaged from the No. 9, Justice Roseline Ukeji Close, Asokoro with fire fighters reportedly slow to respond. No official statement has been issued on the […]
Operatives of the Enugu State police command serving in the Ogui Police Division of have arrested one Nnamani Joseph, aged 45, for allegedly defrauding a businessman of 18 bags of rice valued at about four hundred thousand Naira (N400,000.00). According to a statement issued on Sunday by the spokesman of the state police command, […]
Scores of bandits have been reportedly killed as a result of a heavy fight between two rival groups around Hayin Alhaji to Munhaye forest of the Tsafe Local Government Area in Zamfara State. A local, Mohammed Sanda told The PUNCH on Sunday that the two bandit groups engaged in a supremacy fight last Saturday […]
Bakers Association of Nigeria has threatened to shutdown production of bread if their demands are not met within in two weeks. In a statement in Owerri the Imo State capital at the weekend , the State Chairman of the association, Chief Osmond Nkoma on behalf of the National body said this has become necessary […]
