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Following the end of the 21-day strike ultimatum issued to the government by organised labour last week, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will meet today to finalise plans for an indefinite strike. The meeting followed several moves ...
Read More »FG Tackles Zamfara Govt Over Alleged Politicisation Of Security Challenge
The federal government has taken a swipe at the Zamfara State government for allegedly politicising the abduction of students of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) in the State. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, who stated ...
Read More »As NASS Resumes, Akpabio, Abbas Move To Pacify Aggrieved Lawmakers
Indications emerged yesterday that the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abba,. are planning to rejig the standing committees of the National Assembly. LEADERSHIP’s findings showed that the idea was aimed ...
Read More »Forex Scarcity: NNPC Sustains Petrol Supply With Oil Swap
There are strong indications that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) may have bent backwards to reintroduce the recently jettisoned crude swap initiative to keep the country wet with white products. Falling back to the option, according to a ...
Read More »Concrete Roads: Cement Price To Hit N9,000, Say Manufacturers
The Cement Producers Association of Nigeria has warned that the ongoing plan of the federal government to introduce concrete roads will raise the price of cement to N9, 000 per bag from the current price of N5, 000. It also ...
Read More »Surgeons Perform Second Historic Pig-To-Human Heart Transplant
Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Centre, United States have performed a second successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on a 58-year-old patient, Lawrence Faucette, with end-stage heart disease. Faucette received the pig heart transplant on September ...
Read More »Despite Warning, States Caught Unprepared For Flood
Again, despite previous experience and warnings from the relevant authorities, several states and local governments across the country have been caught unprepared for the yearly devastating rains and floods. Investigation by the LEADERSHIP showed that despite repeated warnings by NiMET, ...
Read More »Rumpus In Civil Service Over New Tenure System
The implementation of Rule 021210 which provides for a new tenure system is generating rumpus in the nation’s civil service. Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Dr Folasade Femi-Esan, had on July 27, 2023, reportedly instructed some permanent secretaries, ...
Read More »NEITI Report: SERAP Demands Probe Of $15bn, N200bn Missing Oil Revenues
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to set up a presidential panel of enquiry to probe the allegations contained in the recent reports of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) that over US$15 billion and ...
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