The Federal Government has ordered the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, to proceed on administrative leave immediately. The government, on Wednesday also set up a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations levelled against him by the scheme’s Governing Council, which led to his recent controversial suspension. According to a Read more
The elders of Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeks for the Immediate expulsion of governor Ibikunle Amosun from the party over alleged anti-party activities. In a petition to the national body, the elders accused the governor of gross misconduct and deliberate plans to destroy the ruling party in the state Below is the full Read more
The organised labour on Tuesday threatened to vote against any government that refuses to meet its N30,000 minimum wage demand. It insisted it would take nothing less than the amount demanded In a nationwide protest, the labour reaffirmed its position and warned Nigerians to stock up on food as the countdown to its planned November Read more
Fresh reports have indicated, a bridge bank created by the Central Bank of Nigeria to take over the assets and liabilities of the defunct Skye Bank is galloping inward crisis as shareholders of the defunct bank have reportedly accused the current management of Polaris Bank, led by its Group Managing Director, Mr. Adetokunboh Abiru of Read more
A report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), realised in Lagos yesterday, has revealed how failure of multinational companies to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on over $8 billion oil and gas assets sold to Nigerian entities fuels poverty, underdevelopment and inequality in Nigeria. The report titled “Impact of Non-Payment of Capital Gains Read more
A speech by Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) at a World Press Conference on Monday, October 29, 2018, in Lagos. How can they say that we are finished? We have just begun. We have nowhere else to run to. We have nowhere else to go. Ladies and Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday hosted aggrieved aspirants of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded party’s primaries across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that those in attendance at the dinner included aggrieved gubernatorial, National and State Assembly aspirants who failed to secure the party’s tickets in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. The Read more
The police on Tuesday declared it arrested 400 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) during a violent protest in Abuja. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police commissioner, Bala Ciroma, also said 31 bottles of petrol bomb were recovered from the IMN members during the clash which occurred in Wuse area of Abuja. A Read more
President Donald Trump said he will scrap a constitutional guarantee to citizenship for anyone born on US soil in a headline-grabbing move bolstering his anti-immigration platform a week before midterm elections. The surprise announcement in an interview with Axios, released in part on Tuesday, followed the dispatch of more than 5,000 regular troops to the Read more
The state governors have collectively made a decision to increase the minimum wage but less than the target the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is agitating for. According to the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara said he and his colleagues have agreed to pay N22,500 to workers. Yari explained that Read more
