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Workers of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET have called off their nationwide strike after the Federal Government’s intervention.  The striking workers, who had grounded flights operations for over 48 hours in protest against poor working conditions, ended the strike following a meeting with the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, in Abuja. The workers expressed concerns over the failure to implement the new national minimum wage, the exclusion […]

The federal government has announced the disbursement of 50 billion Naira to the academic and non-academic staff unions of federal universities for the settlement of unpaid earned allowances as promised by President Bola Tinubu. In a statement issued yesterday by the Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, through the ministry’s spokesperson, Folasade Boriowo, disclosed that the move stands as yet another testament to Tinubu’s unwavering commitment to fundamentally transform Nigeria’s education […]

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have vowed to hunt down operators of Ponzi schemes nationwide. The commissions declared this yesterday following the collapse of the digital assets platform, CBEX. The SEC, however, revealed that it had yet to receive formal complaints about the collapsed digital assets platform, while the EFCC assured that individuals who invested in CBEX would get their money back. Speaking […]

The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, has shared N1.578 trillion to federal, state and local government councils as revenue for March 2025. A communiqué issued yesterday after a FAAC meeting held in Abuja, revealed that the total distributable revenue of N1.578 trillion comprised distributable statutory revenue of N931.325 billion, distributable Value Added Tax, VAT revenue of N593.750 billion, Electronic Money Transfer Levy, EMTL revenue of N24.971 billion and Exchange Difference […]

The Nigerian Army has raised the alarm over the poor enlistment of South East youths into the military service, and called for a change of attitude to reverse the trend. Speaking at a town hall meeting held in Enugustate, the leader of the 2025 army recruitment enlightenment team, CHIMA EKEATOR, said the “south-east is gradually losing out on what is rightfully theirs, revealing that while Kaduna State had recorded over 3,000 applications in the […]

Nigerian singer, SPYRO has accused rich people, especially billionaires, of having a penchant for owing and always preferring to get things for free instead of paying for services rendered. SPYRO, took to his Instagram story to make his opinion on rich people known, asking them not to act that way towards him as he worked really hard to get to where he is, and that he is not poor. The singer added that the so-called […]

The Presidency has dismissed concerns over a recent judgment by a United States federal court directing the Federal Bureau of Intelligence, FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records of their investigations of President BOLA TINUBU’S involvement in alleged drug trafficking, asserting that the documents contain no new revelations. Judge BERYL HOWELL, who had given the order, following a motion by an American, AARON GREENSPAN, seeking a reconsideration of an earlier ruling, had ruled that protecting the information […]

The Nigerian government has banned singer EEDRIS ABDULKAREEM’S new protest song, ‘Tell Your Papa.’, which directly addresses President BOLATINUBU’S son, SEYI TINUBU, urging him to speak to his father about the hardships faced by Nigerians. Announcing the ban yesterday  evening, the Federal Government, through the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, stated that the song is inappropriate and offensive , directingNigerian radio and television stations to refrain from airing the song. Reacting to the ban, ABDULKAREEMdescribed the Nigerian government’s actions as […]