Author: Adekunle Dada
Minimum Wage: Sen. Shehu Sani throws weight behind NLC strike
Sen. Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central has thrown his weight behind the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) nationwide protest and planned…
Ethiopia gets first female supreme court president
Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday swore in the country’s first female supreme court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister…
Bribery Video: Kano Assembly Investigative committee summons Gov. Ganduje
The investigative committee set up by the Kano State House of Assembly to investigate the authenticity of video clip showing…
Over 1.5m PVCs collected in Edo – INEC
A of total of 1,519,350 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) have been collected by registered voters in Edo ahead of the…
Cholera kills 5, hospitalises 16 in Gombe
Gombe State Government on Thursday said fresh outbreak of cholera had killed five people, while 16 others were hospitalised at…
Australia to import grains as drought takes hold
Australia’s Department of Agriculture says the department is preparing to import grains for the first time over a decade as…
Libyan parliament, state council agree to restructure presidential council
Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives, or parliament, and the Tripoli-based Higher Council of State have reached an agreement on restructuring…
Aisha Buhari hosts president’s change agenda artistes
Wife of the President Aisha Buhari on Wednesday hosted some artistes of President Muhammadu Buhari at the launching of a…
Britain’s Duchess sees letters of relatives killed in World War 1
Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, was shown poignant letters and documents on Wednesday relating to three of her relatives who…
Kebbi Govt to procure N14m livestock vaccines
The Kebbi Government says it will procure vaccines worth N14 million to protect livestock against various animals diseases in the…
Minimum Wage: Governors’ N22,500 proposal ‘laughable’ – ASUU, SSANU
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities (SSANU), said on Wednesday that…
11 persons arrested over alleged oil bunkering
The Abia command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 11 persons for allegedly engaging in…
Google workers walk out to protest office harassment, inequality
Hundreds of Google employees and contractors in Asia staged brief midday walkouts on Thursday, with thousands more expected to follow…
Indonesia meets Boeing, U.S. representatives over plane crash
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) on Thursday, held a closed-door meeting with representatives of the crashed plane producer, Boeing,…
Sexual abuse ‘part of ordinary life’ in North Korea – HRW
Sexual abuse is so common in North Korea “it has come to be accepted as part of ordinary life,” Human…