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The World Bank on Wednesday advised the Federal Government to ensure that social safety programmes in the country create jobs for the participating communities. The World Bank Vice President for Africa, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, made this known in ...
Barely a week after the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi, accused the PDP of fuelling the rise of Boko Haram due to its politics of exclusiveness, former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has also fingered the excesses of the part...
Amidst repeated bombings in the country and calls for disintegration, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has asked Nigerians to bring their areas of grievances to the National Assembly for appropriate action. Speak...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, has called on the National Assembly to conduct a public hearing on terrorist attacks and suspected assassination attack on Governor Adams Oshiomhole following a road accident involving his convoy. The fiery civil rights lawye...
Sunday Adepoju represents Ido/Ibarapa federal constituency in the House of Representatives. In this interview with SAKIN BABALOLA, the lawmaker spoke on various issues including his views on the pension fund scam, the achievements of the ACN governors ...
Senator Christopher Iyiola Omisore is the immediate past Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation. He represented Osun-East Senatorial District between 2003 and 2011. In this Interview with SEFIU AYANBIMPE, Omisore speaks on the security report alle...
As part of efforts to end youth restiveness in the Niger-Delta Region, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua issued a proclamation in 2009 for the commencement of a comprehensive demilitarisation of the area and a return to serenity. Tagged Amne...
Following recent reports of abduction from commercial vehicles, the Zamfara Government has banned all illegal motor parts in the state, the Commissioner for Transport, Alhaji Nasiru Zarumai, said. Zarumai told the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau ...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called on the Federal Government to carry out urgent reforms in the NNPC. This they argued would enable the corporation to function efficiently. Alhaji Abdulwaheed Omar, NLC Presiden...
As Nigerian workers markede this year’s May Day, the Federal Government has been advised to tackle the security problems facing the country. In his May Day speech in Abuja on Tuesday, NLC President Abdulwahed Omar said the congress condemned the ...
The Kwara chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have urged the Federal Government to rise decisively to the security challenge in the country. Comrade Farouk Akanbi of NLC and Comrade Israel Adebisi of TUC made th...
President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerian workers to complement government’s efforts to ensure rapid socio-economic development by maintaining highest ideals of quality service delivery. Jonathan made the call on Tuesday in Abuja in a ...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to review some of its policies which, it said, tended to worsen the unemployment and inflationary rates in the country. Mr Abdulwahed Omar, NLC president, made the call at the 20...
Traders within the FCT on Tuesday in Abuja made brisk business in selling their wares at the Eagle Square, venue of the 2012 May Day Celebration. The traders had a field day with the presence of workers who were in their thousands at the venue. A cross...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that Nigeria, against what it termed the misinformation by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, is still one of the least indebted countries amongst developing countries. Denying the ACN’s remarks that ...