ActionAid, Furious, Trashes  Electricity Tariff Hike Plan in Nigeria

International Civil rights group, ActionAid Country Director for Nigeria Ene Obi has trashed The planned increase in electricity tariff has not only ill timed but insensitive to the precarious plight of citizens whose lean disposable incomes are already decapitated. ActionAid in unhappy about decision by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) directing the 11 Electricity Distribution CompaniesContinue reading “ActionAid, Furious, Trashes  Electricity Tariff Hike Plan in Nigeria”

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ASUU STRIKE: Lecturers To Hold Meeting After Strike Notice Expired August

As the ultimatum from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the Federal Government expires,  the union has said its National Executive Council would reassemble to weigh available options and consider its next options. ASUU had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December 2020, after government promised to meet its demands which ledContinue reading “ASUU STRIKE: Lecturers To Hold Meeting After Strike Notice Expired August”

Reports Suggest Abductors Of Six In Zaria Have Killed One, A Pharmacist With ABUTH And Mother Of Two

One of the six persons abducted by bandits from Zango Community in Samaru, Zaria has been killed. The deceased, Hanatu Lawal was a pharmacist at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika. According to a source close to the family, the bandits killed the victim and deposited her lifeless body at a bush path aroundContinue reading “Reports Suggest Abductors Of Six In Zaria Have Killed One, A Pharmacist With ABUTH And Mother Of Two”

NSCDC Anambra Command Denies Viral Video of An Attack On It’s Pehicle and Personnel

NSCDC ANAMBRA STATE COMMAND BULLETIN: RE: ATTACK ON NSCDC PERSONNEL AND OPERATIONAL VEHICLE IN ANAMBRA STATE The attention of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Anambra State Command has been drawn to a video circulation in social media insinuating that Civil Defence officers and vehicle were attacked on Monday 30th of August 2021Continue reading “NSCDC Anambra Command Denies Viral Video of An Attack On It’s Pehicle and Personnel”

Nigeria’s Infrastructure: R&D Experts Put Gap At $3trn

Research experts have estimated Nigeria’s infrastructure gap at $3 trillion, about six times the size of its annual Gross Domestic Product, GDP. Speaking during a virtual meeting on institutionalisation of R&D in Infrastructure Development thematic group of the TETFund Research and Development Standing Committee, RDSC, they stressed the importance of infrastructural development to economic growth.Continue reading “Nigeria’s Infrastructure: R&D Experts Put Gap At $3trn”

NARD Strike: NMA, FG Lock Horns Over 21-Day Notice by Umbrella Body Of Doctors

The Nigerian Federal Goverenment and the Umbrella body of Doctors, the Nigerian Medical Association, appear to have lock horns over 21-day strike automtum issued to the federal government. Find below press releases from the NMA and That of the Nigerian Government. PRESS RELEASE 29/08/2021Labour Ministry to NMA: Your 21-Day Ultimatum in Collision with our MOAContinue reading “NARD Strike: NMA, FG Lock Horns Over 21-Day Notice by Umbrella Body Of Doctors”

DRUG ABUSE: Fourth Year Student Of Abia State University Jumps From 3-Storey Building

A 400 level optometry student of Abia State University Uturu jumped down from a 3 storey building and died at the spot yesterday evening. Report has it that the deceased student took a hard drug known as Colorado and couldn’t “contain it”. His friends locked him inside the room and went in search of garriContinue reading “DRUG ABUSE: Fourth Year Student Of Abia State University Jumps From 3-Storey Building”