Author: Drum Africa Correspondent
The Lagos State Government has appealed to medical doctors to shelve their three-day warning strike scheduled to begin today, saying negotiations and engagements with the Medical Guild are ongoing. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director, Public Affairs in the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo. The government assured that all grievances of the doctors were being looked into with utmost sincerity and urgency. The Medical Guild is an association of doctors under the employment of the Lagos State Government on July 26 declared a three-day warning strike. The warning strike, scheduled to begin on Monday,…
The Yobe University Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it has not called off the strike it embarked upon on July 11. The state varsity ASUU Chairman, Dr Ahmed Karage, made this known in a statement in Damaturu on Monday. He said that although the consequential adjustment for the N70,000 minimum wage was implemented in July, the union’s other demands had not been met by the state government. Karage listed the unaddressed demands to include the implementation of academic staff promotions as approved by the university council and payment of promotion arrears from 2018 to 2025. Others are the…
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Tinubu of further entrenching Nigeria and its citizens in poverty while feeding them with wrong statistics. In a statement he posted on his X page on Monday, Peter Obi stated that under Tinubu’s leadership, Nigeria has become one of the world’s hungriest nations. The Labour Party leader recounted how Tinubu, as a presidential candidate in the 2023 election campaign, chastised him for regularly using statistics. Obi, on the other hand, said that Tinubu, after taking power, is now circulating false figures regarding Nigeria’s economic status in order to…
President Bola Tinubu has assured the Super Falcons of a befitting celebration upon their return from Morocco, where the team won the WAFCON title for a record-extending 10th time on Saturday. The Super Falcons staged a stunning comeback at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat, recovering from two goals down to beat hosts Morocco 3-2 and claim the 2024 title. Morocco took an early lead courtesy of the tournament’s highest goal scorer, Ghizlane Chebbak, in the 12th minute, and doubled their advantage when Sanaâ Mssoudy found the back of the net in the 24th minute. Nigeria responded with a spirited second-half…
Idris Inuwa, assistant national secretary for the north-west zone of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), says Nasir el-Rufai, former Kaduna governor, is not a member of the party and cannot speak on its behalf. Speaking at a press conference on Friday in Kaduna, Inuwa said El-Rufai is not on the party’s membership register and has never been assigned any role. “It has come to our attention that Malam Nasir El-Rufai has taken it upon himself to appear in various fora, including policy dialogues and stakeholder meetings, purporting to speak for the SDP.” “Let this be made unequivocally clear: el-Rufai is…
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has expressed confidence that the emergence of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, as the national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), would pave the way for President Bola Tinubu’s overwhelming victory in the 2027 general elections. Prof. Yilwatda was nominated and unanimously endorsed as National Chairman by members of the National Executive Council of the party on Thursday in Abuja. In a congratulatory message on Friday, Aiyedatiwa described Prof. Yilwatda’s emergence as the new national chairman as a signal to re-engineer and reposition the party for greater success. The governor, in the message released…
A group of pensioners under the aegis of the Concerned Retirees of Abia State Hospitals Management Board (HMB) has appealed to Governor Alex Otti to urgently intervene in the payment of their 15-month unpaid salary arrears, inherited from the previous administration. The group acknowledged that while the arrears were not incurred by the current government, Governor Otti had earlier assured that the debts would be paid in tranches—a process that has since begun. Speaking on behalf of the group, spokesperson Ifeanyi Mbanefo lamented that despite repeated appeals and formal letters to the Office of the Accountant General and the Nigeria…
The Presidency has dismissed claims by the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, that the North has been neglected under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The presidency also stated that several critical projects and programmes are currently underway in the region. Kwankwaso, during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano on Thursday, warned that national resources are increasingly tilted towards the southern region, resulting in deepening poverty and insecurity across the North. He lamented the deplorable condition of federal roads in the northern states, recounting how a cancelled flight forced him to…
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, CFR has applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR for allocating $3 billion for the completion of the Eastern Rail line. It will be recalled that the House of Representatives during its Wednesday plenary session approved the President’s request for the funding of the project. The project is seen as a vital component of the government’s efforts to drive economic development and improve the lives of people from the South East and Nigeria generally. While commending the President, the Deputy Speaker in a statement said that the Eastern Rail…
Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has appointed Mr. Joachim Achor, an indigene of Abia State as the Accountant General of Anambra State. This appointment marks a decisive departure from the longstanding tradition of reserving top government positions exclusively for state indigenes. Achor first came to Anambra as a student in search of academic opportunity. Upon graduating from the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, he was deployed to Anambra State for the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme. During his service year, he earned distinction as the best corps member in the state, a feat that earned him the…