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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Wednesday, ended their closed-door meeting with an agreement that all contentious issues would be amicably resolved to avert strike. The parties also agreed to kick-start a communication process to avert the planned industrial actions by the union. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the parties had entered into a closed-door meeting that began at about 4:30 p.m. at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting, which lasted for over two hours, had in attendance the two ministers overseeing education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, and Dr Yusuf Sununu, and…

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, has stated that the target of those who detonated the explosive around the Hotel Presidential during the protest by loyalists of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, was to create the impression of heightened insecurity in the State. The governor noted that the act was deliberate knowing that the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by its Chairman, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, was in Port Harcourt to meet with the state government. Although, the governor had clarified that he is not fighting anybody, but that he is defending the State…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, deferred hearing a suit seeking to remove the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, from office until July 5. The court, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo, adjourned to allow the litigants to respond to a counter-affidavit the embattled APC Chairman filed to challenge the competence of the suit. The suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/599/2024, was brought before the court by aggrieved members of the party under the platform of North Central APC Forum. The plaintiffs, led by one Saleh Zazzaga, are querying the propriety of Ganduje’s appointment as…

The prosecution in the trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele over alleged procurement fraud yesterday tendered his account statement before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Prosecuting counsel Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) tendered Emefiele’s Zenith Bank account statement through the eighth prosecution witness Umar Abba Tilde. Tilde said the statement was one of three sets of documents demanded from the bank by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He said the statement had an entry of N4 million payment to Architekon Nigeria Limited on January 13, 2015. Emefiele is being tried on…

The Abia government has said it would pay salary arrears owed workers in the state civil service in tranches. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Mike Akpara, made this known on Tuesday during a press conference in Umuahia. Akpara expressed the determination of the present administration to completely change the narrative of owing workers salaries because “a worker deserves his wages.” According to him, the present administration inherited a debt of N16.5 billion in salary arrears owed workers in state-owned institutions of learning. He said that the government had resolved to clear the arrears and ensured that the advancement it recorded…

President Bola Tinubu said yesterday he will consult with the 36 state governors and members of the organized private sector, OPS, before arriving at the figure that will be submitted to the National Assembly in the form of an Executive Bill as the new national minimum wage. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Tinubu at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister said a memo on the report of the new minimum wage was presented to…

Residents of Torough community in Ukum Local Goverment Area of Benue State are now selling their farm produce to raise the N20 million tax slammed on them by bandits or face serious attack. Sources in the community told journalists that the local militias have threatened to unleash an attack on the community if the money is not paid in the next few days. As a result of the threat, our correspondent learnt that residents of the community had shared the amount with each house to contribute N50,000. One of the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of…

By Gboyega Akosile There is no gain saying that God in His infinite wisdom does not make mistakes – I know that most of the widely accepted religions, in the world, Islam and Christianity, hold strongly to this belief. He does as He pleases Himself in the affairs of man, with absolute precision. This can be said of those that God has chosen and used to run the affairs of men in the world. From the days of prophets, Kings, Queens and rulers up to the present day leaders, we believe that there is a hand of God in their…

The Nigerian Army has denied reports that it was recruiting Islamic fundamentalists and jihadists into the military. The denial was made in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Maj Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, and obtained by SaharaReporters on Tuesday. This comes as a Dutch think tank, Clingendael Institute, said jihadi fighters from the Sahel region had crossed into Nigeria through the Benin Republic border. The organisation in a report last Wednesday stated that the extremists had settled in Kainji Lake National Park in Niger and Kebbi states, adding that banditry was re-emerging in zones controlled by a militant jihadist organisation in…

France’s three main political camps were set to go head-to-head Tuesday in a key TV debate as voters prepared for the most polarising election in decades and President Emmanuel Macron warned of “civil war”. The rhetoric has reached fever pitch ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the parliamentary elections, with the far-right National Rally polling in first place. Tuesday night’s debate will pit Prime Minister Gabriel Attal of Macron’s centrist Renaissance party against RN president Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard of France Unbowed, representing a left-wing alliance that is also besting Macron’s side in the polls. At just…