Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Wednesday qualified for the final of the 34th Africa Cup of Nations in Bouake, Côte d’Ivoire with a 4-2 defeat of South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in penalty shootouts. The match lasted with an extra time amounting to 120 minutes deadlocked 1-1 without a clear winner. In the shootouts, Bafana Bafana missed…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, says he sees himself as representative of human rights and pro-democracy movement in government. Sani spoke on Sunday in Kaduna at the 86th Chief Gani Fawehinmi posthumous birthday celebration and the immortalisation of Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna state. Sani said Fawehinmi and Musa devoted their lives…
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has suspended the foreign scholarship component of its intervention for lecturers in public tertiary institutions. In a statement in Abuja on Thursday, spokesperson of TETFund, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, cited the excessive cost of training in foreign institutions as one of the reasons for the suspension of the scheme. He added…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Saturday, met with former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and Yakubu Dogara, former Speaker, House of Representatives in the state. According to THISDAY newspaper, Dogara and Lawal, who are top chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), met behind closed-doors with Governor Wike of…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have kicked against the N54,000 proposed by the federal government as the minimum wage for workers. There were reports on Tuesday that the federal government had increased the proposed minimum wage to N54,000 after organised labour rejected the initial N48,000 during a negotiation meeting….
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has increased the price of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, across its retail outlets. According to TheCable, the price of the product was increased on Tuesday to N855 per litre — from about N620— at an NNPC filling station in the Berger axis of Lagos. Another…
