Politics

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Kaduna State Council, has called on all workers in the state to disregard the government’s circular against the five days warning strike slated to begin this Monday.

A statement by the State Secretary of the council, Comrade Christiana John Bawa, lamented that no any employer of the state government under the present leadership of Governor Nasir Elrufai has job security or is safe from disengagement.

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She recalled that in April 2021, Kaduna State Government sacked over four thousand workers without following due process.…

Deji Adeyanju, an Abuja-based right activist has mocked Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over his remark of running for the presidency.

Adeyanju, who is the co-convener of Concerned Nigerian Advocacy Group said Bello lacks the capacity to be president of a ‘pig farm,’ let alone, ruling Nigeria.

Bello had hinted on running for the 2023 presidency when he pledged not to disappoint Nigerians.

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The governor had said some Nigerians were asking him to run for President in 2023.

He had said: ‘Nigerians, the youth and women

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday received General Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council, urging him to request any assistance whenever he deems necessary from Nigeria.

The new Chadian helmsman arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at about 11.10 a.m. and was received by President Buhari at the forecourt of his office.

Buhari told him that Nigeria would assist the Republic of Chad to stabilise and return to constitutional order.

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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday met behind closed doors with Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of Chad’s transitional military council, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Africa Today News, New York reports that Deby, who took over the mantle of leadership in Chad after the death of his father on April 19, 2021, is on a one-day official visit to Nigeria.

Deby’s visit to Nigeria was aimed at formally introducing himself to Buhari, who is considered to be one of the most influential leaders in the West African sub-region and Africa at large.

The two leaders might use the opportunity of …

Sierra Leone’s government is making frantic efforts to abolish the death penalty in the West African state, deputy justice minister Umaru Napoleon Koroma revealed yesterday.

No execution has taken place in the country since 1998, and death penalties are often commuted.

Sierra Leone, which is still recovering after decades of civil war, has frequently come under fire from rights groups for keeping capital punishment on the books.

‘Once the legislation goes to parliament and gets approved, that ends the story of the death penalty,’ Koroma told reporters.

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The Arewa Consultative Forum has reacted to the resolutions reached by Southern governors’ at their meeting held on Tuesday saying that restructuring Nigeria would divide the country.

The northern sociopolitical group newsmen that some of those advocating restructuring were bent on the disintegration of the country and that should not be allowed to happen.

The group, however, supported the decision of the governors to ban open grazing of cattle.

‘Our position on this is informed by the fact that some of the advocates of restructuring are at the same time advocating the dissolution of Nigeria. Are they believers in Nigeria …