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Kaduna State Government has declared the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ayuba Wabba and other executives wanted for alleged economic sabotage. The state governor Nasir El-Rufai said, “Ayuba Wabba & others of NLC declared wanted for economic sabotage & attacks on public infrastructure under Miscellaneous Offences Act.” El-Rufai said the state government has also placed an undisclosed bounty on the NLC executives. “Anyone that knows where he is hiding should send a message to MOJ (Ministry of Justice) Kaduna. There will be a handsome reward,” El-Rufai tweeted. NLC president Wabba and other national executives of labour unions on Monday…

A senior special assistant to Ogun State governor has been arrested in the United State for wire fraud, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Monday. Abidemi Rufai was arrested at the JFK Airport in New York on his way out of the US and has appeared before a court on May 15. He scheduled for a detention hearing on May 19. If found guilty, Rufai may spend up to thirty years in prison since the fraud relates to benefits paid in connection with a presidentially declared disaster or emergency. Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman accused…

• How hypertension, heart diseases fuel COVID-19 deaths, by NHF• NMA says poverty, anxiety raise risk of hypertension• Normal blood pressure is 120/80 mmHg but 140/90 mmHg in Nigeria• NHS decries high rates, urges Nigerians to go for check up As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the World Hypertension Day (WHD) today, May 17, medical experts have warned that no fewer than 76.2 million Nigerians are hypertensive. Executive Director, Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF), Dr. Kingsley Kola Akinroye, yesterday, told The Guardian that the prevalence of hypertension is about 38.1 per cent (76.2 million out of an…

Cars queue to buy petrol at the NNPC Mega petrol station in Abuja • Nigeria losing N73.6b monthly to high consumption claims despite work-from-home practice• Subsidy difficult to police, poses major corruption risk, says LCCI• Deregulation a hard choice amid inflation, pandemic, electricity tariff hike – Proshare As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) signals a subtle harmonisation of exchange rates with the removal of N379/$1 official rate from its website, all is set for labour unions to lock horns with the Federal Government on petrol subsidy removal. The return of subsidy have posed new challenges for the country in…

…Says Website Operated by Faceless Persons Enugu State based foremost pro-democracy and sociopolitical organisation, the Save Enugu Group (SEG) has dissociated itself from a website of a group with similar name. The group in a statement jointly signed by its convener/national coordinator, Chief Willy Ezugwu and the Secretary, Comrade James Ezema, made available to ThePrimeTimes noted that “the website with the domain name SaveEnugu.com and has its title as “SaveEnugu Pressure Group” is a blog registered on December 30, 2020 and is not known to us.” Worried by the development, the Save Enugu Group described those who are operating the…

The Commissioner for Health in Plateau, Dr Nimkong Ndam, says that 44,000 persons have so far received the first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the state. Ndam, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos, said that the state had stopped administering the first dose of the vaccine. He said that the administration of the second dose of the vaccine would commence on June 13. He said that this would mark an interval of three months after the first set of the vaccine was received and administered. “The state chose…

Some Nigerians have slammed the former vice president Atiku Abubakar over his position on restructuring and calls for a national conference. Atiku on Saturday urged the 17 Southern governors engaged in the ‘Asaba Declaration’ to convene a national conference should President Muhammadu Buhari refuse to heed to their demands. “What our present challenges, therefore, call for is not fragmentation but concentration,” Atiku tweeted. “We must concentrate and focus our national willpower and resolve towards fighting these unNigerian tendencies. “I call on Nigerian Governors to stop waiting on Abuja to make changes, and instead convene a National Unity Summit of all Nigerian Governors…

Legendary Nigerian singer/songwriter, television presenter, publisher, and producer, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa aka Charly Boy, has concluded arrangements on his song ‘Which Way Nigeria’ and other notable projects. Regarded as one of Nigeria’s most controversial entertainers because of his alternative lifestyle, political views, Area Fada has continued to stimulate the minds of African Youths, as he has done consistently for decades, through his unique mystical forms of Artistic expressions , delivered through music and recently in blockbuster movies. ‘Which way Nigeria” is a brand new song from the Charly and ‘A Goodwill Message’ to the Nigerian people in these turbulent times.…

Some adolescent girls in Rigasa community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State have produced about 15,000 reusable sanitary pads using local materials. Girls in Rigasa community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna. Photo/NANMr Yusha’u Abubukar, Executive Director, Enhancing Communities Action for Peace and Better Health Initiative (E-Caph), made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Friday. Abubakar said that the sanitary pads were produced by 150 adolescent girls, 15 to 18 years, who were rounding up a three-month training on how to make the pads as a means of livelihood. Reusable…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed door with Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Deby, who took over the mantle of leadership in Chad after the death of his father on April 19, 2021, is on one-day official visit to Nigeria. NAN reliably gathered that 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. NAN also reports that…