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By Halimah Olamide The Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday, berated the Department of State Security for what it called its despicable conduct attacking officials of the Nigerian Correctional Services at the court on Tuesday. The NBA said while it is not accusing the leadership of the DSS for the ugly scene at the Federal High Court over who takes custody of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, it called on the security agency to discipline officers involved in the attacks. In a statement made available to the NPO Reports by Habib Akorede Lawal, National…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigeria Labour Congress has given the Federal Government a seven day ultimatum to remove all policies that have caused hardship on Nigerians. The declaration was said to be the resolution of the congress after its meeting held in Abuja which ran late into the night on Tuesday. The NLC said at the expiration of the ultimatum on August 2, all Nigerians workers would be asked to down tools to press home the demands for better living. The congress’ decision was sequel to the increase in the prices of petroleum products, a fallout of the removal of…

By Halimah Olamide The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has embarked on indefinite industrial action. NARD is demanding immediate payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF), immediate release of the circular on one-for-one replacement and payment of skipping arrears The National President of the association, Dr. Innocent Orji, confirmed that his members were poised to make the strike effective. Others are upward review of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) in line with full salary restoration to the 2014 value of CONMESS and payment of arrears of the consequential adjustment of minimum wage to omitted doctors. The…

*As Retiring Sociology Professor Lists Ways Out Former National Commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Lai Olurode, has lamented how poor leadership has failed Nigerians. Olurode, who retired from the Department of Sociology and delivered his valedictory lecture at the University of Lagos on Tuesday, said decades of poor leadership has led the country into the doldrums adding that the situation keeps being worsened by new crop of leadership who also fail to learn from the past. His paper was titled: ““Knowledge selector, public interest and power structure.” He said part of the problems is in the inability…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, deserves the fullest protection of the law as a Nigerian citizen. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja while reacting to the recent foiled attacks on Atiku’s Yola residence and ABTI University by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. He, however, called on the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate PDP’s allegation that the APC was responsible for the attack. Morka described the allegation as a vacuous and mindless campaign of calumny,…

A traditional ruler in Ogun, Oba Abraham Bankole, has been crushed to death by a truck on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bankole was the Olu of Onibuku in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of of the state NAN gathered that the truck, with registration number EPE 252 XF, hit the traditional ruler while he was alighting from a tricycle, popularly known as Keke Napep, along the Ota-Idiroko Expressway, close to Winners Chapel. He was said to have died on the spot. Mr Adekunle Ajibade, the Sango-Ota Area Commander of the state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps…

By Kamil Opeyemi Apprehensions over insecurity heightened again on Tuesday as gunmen on abducted the immediate-past Provost of the Federal College of Education (FCE), Osiele near Abeokuta, Dr. Ayodele Ajayi, in the Odeda Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun. Ajayi was reportedly abducted with his wife and driver after 7 p.m. at Ikija village in the Olodo axis of the Abeokuta-Ibadan road. It was further gathered that Ajayi’s wife was later released by the abductors, while he and his driver were taken away. Eyewitness accounts said the assailants came out of the bush to attack Ajayi and other motorists along…

By Hallimah Olamide The Naira on Tuesday appreciated against the dollar, exchanging at N791.42 at the Investors and Exporters window. The Naira gained by 0.08 per cent when compared with N792.04, which it exchanged for the dollar on Monday. The open indicative rate closed at N779.50 to the dollar on Tuesday. A spot exchange rate of N845 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N791.42. The naira sold for as low as N730 to the dollar within the day’s trading. A total of 51.55 million dollars was traded at the investors…

By Kamil Opeyemi Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State says with necessary arrangement in place, the planned Badagry Port might be ready by 2025. Sanwo-Olu said this on Tuesday, when the Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adeniyi, paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Marina. He restated his administration’s commitment to construct a new port in the Badagry axis of the state, to decongest Apapa and Tincan Island ports, hence, bringing in more investors into the state. The governor said that the state government was already in touch with a contractor for the construction of…

By Hallimah Olamide The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Monday raised the country’s Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 18.5 per cent to 18.75 per cent. The Acting Governor of the CBN, Mr Folashodun Shonubi made this known on Tuesday, while presenting the communique from the MPC meeting. The MPR is the baseline interest rate upon which other interest rates are built. Shonubi announced that the committee also adjusted the asymmetric corridor from +100/-700 to +100/-300 basis points around the MPR, retained the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) at 32.5 per cent; and retained the…