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The federal government has insisted that the no-work-no pay policy will be enforced on the striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The government also said it would withdraw the case it instituted against the striking doctors only if they went back to their duty post. The NARD has been on strike since August 2, 2021 over “irregular...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, will today interrogate Chief Judges of six states over issuance of conflicting orders. The Chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa and Imo States had been summoned. Senior officials of the National Judicial Council Sunday confirmed that the CJN had demanded the records of proceedings in all the suits from which...

Pundits have given reasons why the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are keeping an eye on former President Goodluck Jonathan to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pitch tent with the ruling party. Since the visit of APC governors led by Yobe State governor and chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on the occasion...

The World Health Organisation has revealed that it is monitoring a new coronavirus “variant of interest” named Mu – also known by its scientific name as B.1.621. This was disclosed by Dr. Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the WHO, at a UN press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. In its weekly epidemiological update, WHO warned that the variant was becoming increasingly...

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, on Wednesday, sacked the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court restrained the interim chairman and others from parading themselves as members of the party’s CECPC until the determination of a substantive suit before the court. This comes...

Sale Mamman, the erstwhile Minister of Power, courted many controversies shortly after he assumed office in August 2019. First of such was the sacking of the former Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mrs Damilola Ogunbiyi, over internal issues in December 2019. The federal government had reversed the sack to resignation. More internal crisis continued among the power sector agencies...

Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, who was relieved of his duty as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Wednesday, has been under scrutiny over a number of issues, which drew adversaries to him. Since taking charge of agric ministry on August 21, 2019, Nanono has been involved in one controversy or the other. Perhaps, the most wave Nanono made as a...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says forcing or coercing people into vaccination violates the fundamental right of individuals. CAN President and Co-Chairman, Nigeria Inter-Religious Council, Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said this in Abuja on Wednesday. He was responding to the Federal Government’s position on considering sanctioning those refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine. He said the COVID-19 vaccines available in Nigeria were far...

Abia Born, US based entertainment icon, Mayor Lucky Igbokwe has mourned the demise of Lady Victoria Aguiyi Ironsi and Nneoha Adanma Okpara. In a Condolence message said by Don Lulu and sighted by TN24, he eulogized the two women as pillars of their respective families. Read full condolence message:i I wsh to express my heartfelt sympathies over the death of Chief Mrs...

The Kaduna State government on Sunday night confirmed the killing of Capt. Abdulkarim Ibn Na’Allah, the son of the Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District, Bala Na’Allah. The deceased, a trained pilot, was killed by suspected bandits at his Malali residence in the Government Reservation Area (GRA), Kaduna North local government area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security...