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Labour shortage: Germany to Admit 400,000 Skilled Immigrants Annually

Germany is facing significant labor shortages in 2022, as the European giants grapple with changing demographics and the retirement of an older generation...

ANOTHER ECOWAS EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT HOLDS ON FRIDAY, THIS TIME ON BURKINA FASO: IS THE REGIONAL BODY LOSING THE DEMOCRATIC BATTLE

    If the punitive and unprecedented sanctions that ECOWAS imposed on Mali on January 9 were meant to deter soldiers in the...

Senate to empower FG to seize “illegally-acquired” assets as bill scales second reading

    A law that will empower the Federal Government to confiscate assets of corrupt public officers, terrorism financiers and others is at...

NNPC Ltd, Afreximbank to raise $5 billion financing to support upstream Businesses

NNPC Ltd, Afreximbank to raise $5 billion financing to support upstream Businesses and facilitate energy supply and transition, NNPC GMD Mele Kyari disclosed...

War Tension: Ukraine To Its Olympic Athletes, ‘Do Not Take Photos With Russians’

  As war tensions mount between Russia and Ukraine, officials in Ukraine hope their athletes aren’t locked arm in arm with their Russian...

NNPC says N3trn required as petrol subsidy for 2022

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd says about N3 trillion will be required for petrol subsidy in 2022. NNPC presented...

Security Operative Assaults LASTMA Officer After Driving On BRT Lane

The security operative, who wasn’t wearing uniform attempted to handcuff the LASTMA officer who was driving and repeatedly hit him.    

Another multi-billion dollar scandal by Rotimi Ameachi unearthed

An Embraer Legacy 600 plane owned by Rivers State Government and “abandoned” in Germany since 2012 by the then Gov. Rotimi Ameachi has...

Gospel singer, Sammie Okposo in messy infidelity scandal

  Gospel singer Sammie Okposo has been caught up in a nasty infidelity scandal after impregnating his U.S-based lover. Okposo, who tendered a...

World Corruption Perception Index: Nigeria Sinks Deeper by 5 Places To 154 Out Of 180 Countries

  In spite of the Buhari administration’s anti-corruption fight, Nigeria has gone down by five places to rank the 154 position out of...

Ahead of petrol subsidy removal, FG to convert 1m petrol vehicles to autogas

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh removal. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who disclosed this on Tuesday at a virtual...

Petrol subsidy removal: Labour shelves nationwide protest

    Sequel to the Federal Government’s decision to halt petrol subsidy removal, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday announced the suspension...

Total subsidy removal: FG proposes 18- month extension to NASS on PIA implementation

  The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has finally settled for the extension of total removal of petrol subsidy by about 18 months. To...

Buhari bows to pressure, extends subsidy removal implementation period beyond June 2022

    Following wide consultations with stakeholders and in line with the current economic realities in the country, the Federal Government has backtracked...

Ogun community chieftaincy row: Monarch killed in cold blood, roasted

    The Monarch of Agodo village in Ewekoro council area of Ogun State, Oba Ayinde Odetola, was on Monday murdered by some...

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Update: Hanifa Abubakar: In a clampdown, Kano State Govt withdraws operational licences of all private schools

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh     Following the abduction and killing of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, by the proprietor of...