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• ASUU threatens to embark on another nationwide strike

  14-05-2024 21:11 via pulse.ng
  
  ASUU President made this known while speaking at a press conference at the ASUU national secretariat, Abuja.The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be gearing up for another nationwide strike if the brewing issues are not immediately addressed.The president of the union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke on Monday, May 14, 2024, threatened that the union would go on an industrial action to protest against the absence of governing councils in all federal universities.Osodeke made this known whil
  
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• NAF shells illegal oil refining sites along Imo River after meeting with Otti

  10-06-2024 00:10 via pulse.ng
  
  According to him, the sites consist of two tanks and a reservoir in one location and three tanks and two reservoirs in another location along the Imo Riverbank.The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), said that the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe had successfully destroyed two Illegal Refining Sites (IRS) situated along the banks of Imo River.NAF’s Director, Public Relations and Information, AVM Edward Gabkwet, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation was carried out on Saturday.Ga
  
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• No be beans - Lagos residents lament as price of beans skyrockets

  10-06-2024 00:00 via pulse.ng
  
  Yusuf told NAN that demand for beans had been high but farmers did not have enough because so many of them could not cultivate crops this year.Lagos residents are raising concerns about the continued increase in the price of beans, their major source of protein.They said that the consistent rise in the price of beans since 2024 had become unbearable, urging governments to intervene.The residents spoke in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.NAN reports that a 40kg
  
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• Returned artifacts will boost Edo’s tourism potential – Obaseki

  09-06-2024 23:54 via pulse.ng
  
  According to the governor, the tourism potential of the artefacts and relics will strategically position the state as a tourism hub for both local and international visitors.Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that the stolen Benin artefacts recently returned to the state would boost its tourism potential.“The artefacts will bring back our status as the tourism hub of the country,” Obaseki told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.According to him, the returned art
  
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• Lawmakers, govs should be on same minimum wage as labour - Father Mbaka

  09-06-2024 21:03 via pulse.ng
  
  Father Mbaka criticised the allowances given to lawmakers despite the prevalent economic hardship in the country.Controversial Catholic priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, has suggested that state governors and lawmakers should be placed on the same minimum wage of ₦62,000 proposed to Nigerian workers.Mbaka also advised the government to not treat the minimum wage issue with kid gloves to avert a potential crisis.His remarks come after the standoff between Organised Labour on the one hand, an
  
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• 'I can't be part of a mega fraud' — Sowore on alliance with Atiku, and Obi

  09-06-2024 19:51 via pulse.ng
  
  Sowore told Pulse Nigeria that he does not crave Peter Obi's supporters and does not wish to be packaged into what he is not.Omoyele Sowore, the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, has dismissed any possibility of merging with political heavyweights like Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.In a deeply insightful interview with Pulse Nigeria, the publisher of the online news agency Sahara Reporte
  
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• Group asks NASS to investigate mass sack of CBN workers

  09-06-2024 19:05 via pulse.ng
  
  Dekete decried that the affected personnel were those with an avalanche of experience and expertise in their various fields, needed to move the apex financial institution forward.The Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Communities Development Association (CONECDA), has urged the National Assembly to investigate the recent mass sack of some workers of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).Mr. Paul Dekete, the North Central Coordinator of the CONECDA Youth Wing, made the request in a statement on Sunda
  
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• Tinubu appoints Nkiruka Maduekwe as DG/CEO of NCCC

  09-06-2024 18:55 via pulse.ng
  
  He said the President also approved that Maduekwe would serve as the Co-Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Committee on National Carbon Market Activation Plan (NCMAP).President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Nkiruka Maduekwe as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC) pending confirmation by NCCC’s Supervisory Council.Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, announced the appointment i
  
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• Edo Guber: More headaches for APC as key chieftain resigns

  09-06-2024 18:01 via pulse.ng
  
  Recently, the PDP has poached some influential APC chieftains in Edo State as the two parties gear up for the September 21 governorship election.The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suffered another setback ahead of the Edo governorship election billed for September 21as its Edo Central Senatorial Vice Chairman, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, announced his exit from the party.Inegbeniki's resignation was contained in a letter to his Ward 9, Opoji chairman in Esan Central Local Government Area (LGA
  
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• Councillor sponsors 120 out-of-school children’s education in Kano

  09-06-2024 16:34 via pulse.ng
  
  Items distributed to the beneficiaries included 1,200 exercise books, 120 school bags, 240 sets of uniforms and 120 pairs of shoes.Alhaji Bashir Aliyu, Councillor representing Achika ward in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State, has sponsored 120 out-of-school children to further studies.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Aliyu, while presenting the educational materials to the beneficiaries at Achika on Sunday, said the beneficiaries were orphans.He said the gesture was meant t
  
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• Museveni urges religious leaders to stop isolating traditionalists

  09-06-2024 16:32 via pulse.ng
  
  President Museveni urges religious and government leaders to stop isolating people who practice witchcraft and traditional religionsMuseveni encourages religious and government leaders to treat traditionalists with patience and to share ideas, rather than confronting themHe recounts his personal experience of closely working with witch doctors and religious groups during the guerilla war in the 1980sPresident Yoweri Museveni has urged religious leaders and other government officials to stop isol
  
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• Kano anti-graft body probes alleged fraud in Yusuf's cash gift to hawkers

  09-06-2024 16:31 via pulse.ng
  
  NAN reports that Yusuf had recently presented ₦50,000 each to 465 street hawkers to boost their businesses.The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission says that it has commenced an investigation into the alleged scam that characterised the recent disbursement of empowerment funds to street hawkers by Governor Abba Yusuf.The Commission’s chairman, Muhuyi Rimin-Gado, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Kano that the commission was investing in the mat
  
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• Aisha Yesufu wants Senate scrapped to bring down cost of governance

  09-06-2024 16:26 via pulse.ng
  
  The activist said that both the bicameral legislature and the presidential system of government had brought a lot of pressure on the nation's resources.A renowned political and civil rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has called for the scrapping of the Nigerian Senate to reduce the cost of governance.Yesufu, Co-founder, Bring Back Our Girls Movement, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.She was reacting to calls in some quarters that the country sho
  
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• NDLEA intercepts 175,000 bottles of codeine shipment from India

  09-06-2024 16:22 via pulse.ng
  
  Babafemi said that the two seizures followed earlier intelligence which made the agency request a 100 per cent examination of the shipment.The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India.Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday.Babafemi said that the seizure was made on Friday during a joint examination by NDLEA, Customs Service and other security agencies.He said that the seizur
  
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• Stop exit of multinational companies from Nigeria, APC chieftain to Tinubu

  09-06-2024 14:06 via pulse.ng
  
  Oyintiloye also appealed to the President to restore Nigeria as a haven for multinational industries and empower the Indigenous manufacturing industriesOlatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to stop the continued exit of multinational companies from Nigeria.Oyintiloye, who made the appeal in a chat with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, described the exit of these companies as worrisome and heartbreaking.The APC chieftain a
  
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• APC chieftain advocates merger of House of Reps, Senate

  09-06-2024 14:02 via pulse.ng
  
  The APC chieftain also said the country would save costs by selecting ministers from the legislature.A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Abiodun Salami, has called for the adoption of a unicameral legislative system to reduce the cost of governance.Salami, a former Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party in Lagos, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)on Sunday.He was reacting to calls in some quarters that the country should jettison its current two
  
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• Prominent ex-Sokoto Gov says Nigerians will decide between Obi, Atiku in 2027

  09-06-2024 12:55 via pulse.ng
  
  Obi has been rumoured to be plotting his way back to the PDP even though he recently reaffirmed his commitment to the Labour Party.A prominent former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, has said Nigerians will be the ones to decide who between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi will get the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket in 2027.Bafarawa disclosed this in a recent interview with Punch wherein he shared his thoughts on the Nigerian democracy, economic
  
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• Emotions run high as mother jailed for hawking in Nairobi reunites with baby after 9 months

  09-06-2024 12:22 via pulse.ng
  
  “On August 8, 2023 I was set free. I went back to the day care that I left my baby only to hear that she had been handed over to police two days before,” Waithera recounted.Beth Waithera, a mother who was arrested and jailed for hawking in the streets of Nairobi has finally reunited with her young baby after nine months.On what began as a normal day for her in July 2023, Beth took her child to a daycare facility and headed to the streets of Nairobi where she eked out a living as a ha
  
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• FG tightens security on Third Mainland Bridge to prevent vandalism

  09-06-2024 11:41 via pulse.ng
  
  Kesha said that the ministry would not tolerate any vandalism on public infrastructure.The Federal Ministry of Works says it is working with the police to tighten security and stop vandalism on the Third Mainland Bridge to save the public infrastructure.The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Olukorede Kesha, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.NAN reports that operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the police command in Lagos State had
  
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• Strike: Nigerians lament losses during national grid shutdown

  09-06-2024 11:36 via pulse.ng
  
  As organised labour and workers anxiously await an update on the minimum wage struggle, reactions have continued to trail the shutdown of the national grid by the unions during the two-day nationwide strike.The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) initiated an indefinite strike on Monday, demanding an increase in the national minimum wage and a reduction in electricity tariffs.As part of their actions, the unions disrupted the national grid, flights and businesses acr
  
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• New FRSC boss pledges to end number plates, drivers licence delays

  09-06-2024 11:21 via pulse.ng
  
  The new Corps Marshal expressed appreciation for the solidarity and recognition by the association.The new Corps Marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, says modalities have been put in place to eliminate delays in accessing driver licences and number plates.Mohammed gave the assurance in Abuja at a reception organised in his honour by the Alumnus of College of Advance Studies (CAS) Zaria on Saturday.The corps marshal said he would address the incessant complaint of delay in
  
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• Sallah: Lawmaker donates 3000 rams, ₦250m to constituents in Zamfara

  09-06-2024 11:15 via pulse.ng
  
  He said that Jaji’s constituency, Kaura-Namoda and Birnin Magaji Local Government Areas are to receive special packages of both rams and cash.Rep. Aminu Jaji (APC-Zamfara), has purchased 3000 rams for distribution to his constituents and the All Progressive Congress (APC) executives, members and vulnerable households in the state.This is contained in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Jaji’s Coordinating Committee, Aliyu Abubakar, issued in Gusau on Saturday.The News Agency of
  
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• We will ask Tinubu to stop fertiliser import - Akpabio assures Dangote

  09-06-2024 10:53 via pulse.ng
  
  Akpabio said the Dangote Refinery has wiped away years of shame from Nigeria after the discovery of oil in 1958.The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has assured Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote, that the red chamber will ask President Bola Tinubu to put an embargo on importation of fertiliser.Akpabio gave the assurance when he led a delegation of principal officers of the Senate for an on-the-spot assessment of the Dangote Refinery in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State on Saturday, Ju
  
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• You can pay workers ₦60k+ if you curb corruption - Labour replies governors

  09-06-2024 10:22 via pulse.ng
  
  The governors had raised the alarm that the ₦60,000 minimum wage earlier proposed by the federal government isn't sustainable for most states.The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has disagreed with the claim by Nigerian governors that paying ₦60,000 as minimum wage to workers is unsustainable.According to NLC, state governments will be able to afford even over ₦60,000 minimum wage if they minimise corruption and cut down the cost of governance to the barest minimum.The argument is
  
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• Police in Homabay County arrest minor suspected of murdering his mother

  09-06-2024 09:56 via pulse.ng
  
  Neighbours were attracted by a commotion at the deceased’s home and rushed to the scene where they found 39-year-old lying on the ground.Police in Homabay County are investigating an incident in which a 16-year old student is accused of murdering his mother.The suspect is believed to have pounced on his mother identified as Nelis Ogutu, strangling her to death before hacking her lifeless body.Kayanja Sub Location Assistant Chief Moses Sirawa confirmed the incident, noting that the motive o
  
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• Kano enemies distracted Gov Yusuf for one year - Kwankwaso

  09-06-2024 09:45 via pulse.ng
  
  Kwankwaso said the opposition had vowed to remove the Kano Governor from office even though they knew he duly won the election.A former Governor of Kano State and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential flag-bearer in 2023, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said the incumbent Governor Abba Yusuf was distracted for one year by the opposition.The Kwankwasiyya movement leader disclosed this when commenting on developments in the state at an event where Yusuf declared a State of Emergency on educat
  
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• Yobe govt builds 15 schools for IDPs, girls, recruits 4,000 teachers

  09-06-2024 08:23 via pulse.ng
  
  The Yobe State government also invested in building new classrooms, laboratories, ICT centres, and hostels.The Yobe government has heavily invested in its education sector, which has raised the state's position on the national education index.At a recent press conference, Alhaji Baba Malam Wali, the Secretary to the Yobe State Government, outlined the tangible improvements in education.These include establishing six new model schools, recruiting 4,000 teachers, and training 26,000 educators.Addr
  
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• Peter Obi urged to 'move on from losses' of 2023 polls

  09-06-2024 07:43 via pulse.ng
  
  Peter Obi was critiqued for his recent remark against Nigeria's electoral body and its practice.The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, represented by the Middle-Belt Pan Nigerian Forum, has called on Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate, to accept the 2023 Nigerian general election results and move on from his losses. Dr Danladi Ceceko, the group’s spokesperson, emphasised in a statement that the election outcome, which declared President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive
  
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• 39 artefacts looted by colonialists returned home from UK

  09-06-2024 07:00 via pulse.ng
  
  Uganda has regained 39 cultural artefacts in its largest single repatriation effort to date. These objects, taken during British colonial rule (1890s-early 1900s), were housed at Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for over a century.Uganda regains 39 cultural artefacts from Cambridge University's MuseumArtefacts taken during British colonial rule (1890s-early 1900s)Repatriation signifies a step towards addressing colonial acquisition of historical itemsThis repatriatio
  
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• No more lodging of underage girls in hotels, FG warns proprietors

  08-06-2024 22:53 via pulse.ng
  
  The minister said hotels have been instructed to mount a signpost outside their facilities warning prospective clients not to lodge any underage girls on their premises.The Federal Government has sent a stern warning to hoteliers across the country not to harbour underage girls in their facilities to avoid sanctions.Conveying the warning at the ‘Unlock Training and Grants’ ceremony in Abuja on Saturday, June 8, 2024, the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, said the gover
  
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