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The deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son on Tuesday escaped being assassinated by armed attackers in Abuja. The armed men, according to a release by Ekweremadu’s media aide, Uche Anichukwu,…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called off the nationwide industrial action initially scheduled to commence on November 6 to further press for workers’ demand for new national minimum wage. The President of the…
A former governor of Ekiti state, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has accused the federal government of planning to inflate the price of petrol from N145 to N185 in March, 2019. Fayose described the planned increment as a way of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the NLC ahead of the labour uniom strike scheduled to start tomorrow. Buhari made the appeal when he received members of the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of…
The Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, announced on Monday that the union would join the planned NLC strike if government and labour failed…
The State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has distanced itself from the naming of Senator Biodun Olujimi as the party's state leader and reaffirmed former Governor Ayodele Fayose as…
Ahead of the planned strike on Tuesday, some members of the organized labour unions have arrived at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja, for a meeting to negotiate on the new minimum…
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Katsina State says 216,605 voters are eligible to participate in the bye-election for Kankia/Kusada/Ingawa Federal Constituency on November 17. “INEC is conducting the…
DMW has announced the official release date for Mayorkun's debut album, "The Mayor of Lagos" as November 16, 2018 Mayorkun after almost two years of joining Davido's record is set to release his first album project and…
Nigerians and other citizens of Commonwealth countries will be able to join the British armed forces even if they do not live in Britain, the government said on Monday as it struggles to fill vacancies. Britain’s junior…
More than 80 people, mostly children, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon early on Monday, government and military sources said. The students were abducted along with their principal,…
The Peoples Democratic Party has described as “false and laughable” the alleged endorsement by 45 opposition parties of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 Lagos State governorship elections, Mr.…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will today begin an indefinite nationwide strike while Labour warms up for tomorrow deadline. The disclosure followed a meeting with leaders of the union held at the…
A 102-year-old man has died after being trapped on the roof of his home for three days. Ron Easton climbed on to the roof of his home in Bigbury-on-sea in Devon late last month with a bucket of tools but he got stuck…
The University of Ilorin on Sunday said it does not charge tuition fees, in line with the policy of the Federal Government. According to a statement signed by its Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun,…
North Korea has warned the United States it will "seriously" consider returning to a state policy aimed at building nuclear weapons if Washington does not end tough economic sanctions against the impoverished regime.…
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mohammed Abba Gana, has opined that a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will work for the emergence of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…
It's been a while on Music Industry Diary, we're back from the hiatus and we promise to be more consistent this time. On this week's episode, we looking at the top rivalry music record labels in Nigeria which are;…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order a second probe of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano. The governor is already being probed by Kano House of…
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, says governors under the All Progressives Congress (APC) have no respect for President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking on the ongoing crisis rocking the ruling party, Sani…
