Managing Director of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, has disclosed that the maximum of 1.2 million students across federal tertiary institutions will access the students loan in the fist phase. Speaking ahead of the opening of the portal for applications on Friday, he said the first phase will be officially open […]

  Electricity workers union have locked out the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, and other top officials of the Ministry and the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, over pending labour issues including an order from the Federal Government that N2 billion should be deducted from the account of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, […]

  Less than 24 hours after two persons were killed and seven others abducted at Ikachi village, two more persons have been reportedly killed in another attack at Igede village in the Akparata area of Effium community located in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The two persons were beheaded and houses razed […]

  The organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Monday, ordered state chapters to issue two weeks ultimatum to states that have failed to implement the old N30,000 minimum wage. The NLC and TUC took this decision during a jointly held National Executive Council meeting which took place on […]

  A disabled Nigerian man, who has resided in the UK for 38 years, is facing the prospect of being forcibly removed from the country by the Home Office, the Guardian UK reports. Anthony Olubunmi George, now 61 years old, arrived in the UK at the age of 24 back in 1986, from Nigeria. Since […]

  Monday 20 May 2024 Dangote petrol supply: FG may slash N6tn fuel import Oil production nears 1.7mbpd – NNPC Workers will rather work for free than accept N48,000 — NLC CBN withdraws circular on cybersecurity levy Two killed, 7 kidnapped in Ebonyi communal clashes Iran Government Says Will Operate ‘Without Disruption’ After Raisi Death […]

  Iranian state media said President Ebrahim Raisi died on Monday after his helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of the country. The government has not yet issued a confirmation of the leader’s death. Rescue teams had been scouring the area since Sunday afternoon after a helicopter carrying Raisi, the foreign minister and other officials […]

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has retracted its directive asking banks and payment service providers to collect and remit the cybersecurity levy as outlined in the Cybercrime Prevention and Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024. The apex bank announced this in a revised circular dated May 17, 2024. The circular, signed by the Director of […]

  Iran’s Deputy President for Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri has said that two members of President Ebrahim Raisi’s entourage have contacted rescue teams, and this shows that the air incident involving their helicopter has not been rough, reported the IRNA news agency. Mansouri said on Sunday that the helicopter of President Raisi and two more […]

  A helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, crashed on Sunday, according to state media and the country’s mission to the United Nations, UN but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog. The state news agency IRNA reported that an enormous search operation involving […]