Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) has urged the Federal Government to ensure timely release of funds to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for 2023 general election. The Chairman, Council of the Wise, SCDDD, retired Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, made the appeal at a news conference on...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – When governments deploy tax revenues for the common good of the citizens, there is a concomitant increase in tax compliance by citizens who see the direct benefit of the taxes they pay. This was the position held by the Executive Chairman of the Federal...
The Federal Government has ordered Vice-Chancellors in universities to re-open schools and to allow students resume lectures. This is contained in a letter signed by the Director, Finance and Accounts of National Universities Commission (NUC), Mr Sam Onazi, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Abubakar...
The Federal Government has bestowed a national award of Commander of Federal Republic (CFR) on the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II. Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Chief Press Secretary to the traditional ruler, announced this on Sunday via a press statement, a copy of which was made available to the News...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has filed an appeal challenging the ruling of Justice Polycarp Hamman of the National Industrial Court (NIC) Abuja which ordered the lecturers to call off their seven-month-old strike and return to the classrooms. Counsel to ASUU, Mister Femi Falana, based their appeal...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Friday called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities to return to work first before appealing the Industrial Court’s judgement which directed it to call off the seven month old strike. Comrade Alhassan Adam, the North-East NANS...
The Vice Chancellor (VC), Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has called on the Federal Government to allow private universities to benefit from TETfund for the attainment of desired educational development in the country. The Vice Chancellor, who made the call on Thursday in an interview with newsmen in...
A university student, Soohemba Aker, has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja for an order of interlocutory injunction suspending the activities of Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). Aker, a final year Law student of Benue State University, Markudi, also sought same order suspending the operation of Federal...
The Federal Government says a number of factors beyond its control led to the current situation in which the cost of fertiliser increased to between 110 and 150 per cent. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja....
The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) on Wednesday urged vice-chancellors of public universities to re-open the institutions for academic activities to resume. CONUA is a splinter group of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) not in agreement with the union’s on-going strike which began since Feb. 14....
The Federal Government says it will continue to negotiate with ASUU in spite of Wednesday’s court ruling restraining the union from continuing with its seventh month strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja ordered the striking lecturers to return to the classroom following a suit...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will appeal the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the lecturers to call off their ongoing strike. Mr Femi Falana, who is the counsel to the union, confirmed this to Channels Television on Wednesday hours after the ruling of the...
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the N10 billion earmarked in 2020 by the Federal Government for local production of vaccines, is still intact. The minister gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly update meeting on COVID-19 response. Ehanire said that the country had...
The Federal Government has recovered a total of N2.6 Trillion revenue from oil firms following the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) National Assembly intervention. NEITI said a total of 2.6 billion dollars remained outstanding in the hands of companies as at March 2022. Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, Executive...
The Court of Appeal Abuja has reserved judgment on an appeal filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to quash the terrorism and treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. The IPOB leader, who is currently facing trial before the...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says the Federal Government is working to ensure that the country’s Intellectual Property (IP) law and administration are in line with current realities. Malami said this on Monday when the Senior Counsellor, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO),...
Some undergraduates have resorted to learning different kinds of skills following the continuous Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja reports that ASUU had continued to extend the strike over what its alleged Federal Government’s failure to implement the...
The Federal government on Monday urged the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its seven months strike. Joined as a claimant in the matter is the Minster of Education, with the President of ASUU as sole defendant. The matter which...
The Presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Adewole Adebayo, says funding of tertiary education in Nigeria should be put under the Tertiary Education Fund (Tetfund) and not government. Adebayo made the assertions on Sunday shortly after the inauguration of the party’s South-West Zonal Office in Ibadan. The...
The Federal Government says it will meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) for adjudication on Monday over prolong strike. Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, said this on Sunday in Abuja in a letter addressed...