Nurses in Britain are prepared to strike until Christmas if they cannot reach a deal with the government on pay, the leader of the country’s main nursing union said on Sunday. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) would strike at the end of April and the beginning of May before holding a ballot…
Japan’s army found wreckage and five bodies Sunday during a deep-sea search for crew on board a helicopter that disappeared from radar earlier this month, an army spokesman said. The aircraft with 10 people on board had been on a reconnaissance mission when it went missing on April 6, in what the Ground Self-Defense Force…
The newly appointed Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, His Royal Majesty Ohna Sergeant Chidi Awuse, has promised to deploy all resources in his arsenal to ensure further enhancement of LAUTECH’s recorded successes. The new Chancellor spoke in his palace at Emohua during a visit by a delegation from LAUTECH,…
Bandits stormed Runji village in Zango Kataf local government area of Kaduna state and killed no fewer than 20 people during the attack. A resident of the area who pleaded for anonymity in an interview with newsmen disclosed that the hoodlums stormed the village around 9 pm on Saturday night when the villagers were indoors….
The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, was on Sunday morning declared the Senator-elect for Sokoto South Senatorial district. Tambuwal, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the current serving Senator Danbaba Dambuwa, with a total margin of 4,976. Announcing the results at about 11:55am on Sunday at the INEC office in Bodinga…
By Reno Omokri Nigerians in Nigeria and abroad take delight in running down Nigeria before foreigners. We have very little sense of national pride. In fact, we delight in telling others the worst about Nigeria. And often, what we talk about is an exaggeration. I do not understand why we do this. Telling foreigners negative…
: The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, over the declaration of the election held Saturday. The commission disclosed this on Sunday via its Twitter handle. It noted that the process has clearly not been concluded before he made the announcement. “The attention of the Commission has…
Participants at the stakeholders engagement organized by the Osun state government and the Federal Government through the Nigeria Startup Act (NSA) had showered encomium on Governor Ademola Adeleke for taking the bold step of domesticating the act. Speaking at the stakeholders engagement held in Osogbo the Osun state capital on Saturday, Segun Solomon, Spokesperson of…
A media professionals group, The Idoma Editors, has thumbed down what it described as the “nauseatingly historical killings in Benue communities by suspected terrorists also known as killer herders.” According to them, the killings of innocent indigenes had “assumed a monumental proportion during the just concluded Easter celebration with Umogidi village, Guma and Agan IDPs…
Federal Government, through the National Startup Act, NSA, Secretariat and Osun State Government will on Saturday hold a stakeholders’ forum on the adoption and domestication of the Nigeria Startup Act. Recall that the Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke while receiving Members of the Osun House of Assembly in his office earlier in year…
