Breaking: ASUU extends nationwide strike
ASUU Strike: NANS threatens to disrupt political activities ahead of party primaries
FG to connect Ogoniland to national grid
Ogoni clean-up unlikely to be completed under Buhari’s administration – FG
Port Harcourt refinery to begin operations by 2023 – FG
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has disclosed that the Port Harcourt refinery is likely to resume operations by the first quarter of 2023. Recall that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited commenced the rehabilitation of the refinery, after the Federal Executive Council, approved $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation exercise in […]
Northern youths warn FG against engaging Tompolo in pipelines contract
Some youths under the aegis of the Arewa Youths Assembly have urged the Federal Government against awarding a contract for oil pipelines surveillance to former-Niger Delta warlord, Oweizide Ekpemupolo, also known as Government Tompolo. In a statement in Kaduna on Thursday, the deputy Speaker of the group, Abdulsalam Mohammed-Kazeem, said that the information at their […]
FG asks Shell, Chevron, NNPC to allow others move gas through their pipelines
Uniport Alumni mourns Dr Chinelo, asks FG to fix security structure
The University of Port Harcourt Alumni Association has said the attack on the Kaduna-Abuja bound train has further exposed the susceptibility of the country’s security architecture. The group, while mourning one of them, the late Dr Chinelo Megafu, who was among the passengers attacked and killed in the incident, called on the Federal Government to […]
Polythecnics lectrures threaten strike action, issues one month notice
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has threatened to resume the industrial action it suspended in June 2021, if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands within one month. Speaking to journalists in Yola, Adamawa State, after its National Executive Council meeting, the union’s President, Anderson Ezeibe said ASUP was close to resuming the […]
SSANU, NASU declares industrial action Monday
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a decision to embark on a two-week industrial action, starting from Monday. The unions said its decision comes after the failure of the Federal government to react to its […]
ASUU strike: Occupy Abuja streets, NANS tells students
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said it has begun mobilising students nationwide to disrupt official activities and public movements in Abuja beginning from Monday. NANS said this was to express its anger over the inability of the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve their differences and reopen the […]
Use indigenous contractors for clean-up projects – Ogoni group tells FG
A group, Ogoni Peoples Assembly (OPA), has disclosed that the Ogonis would resist any plan to hijack the water and remediation projects in the ongoing Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) by contract awards that did not bestow right of the first choice on Ogoniland. It called on the Minister of Environment to consider indigenous contractors […]