News Update

A meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour to stave off the planned strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress deadlocked on Monday night. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, who hosted the parley in Abuja, could not convince the unions to suspend the strike slated for February 23,2024.

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has sought the permission of governors in the South-West to go after the killers of three Yoruba monarchs. Adams, in an open letter to the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji, on Tuesday, said he had the capacity to deal with those he called the enemies of Yoruba land, saying, however, that he needed the permission of the governors.

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 The immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday that $6.2m was released from the Central Bank of Nigeria in February 2023 using a forged document. The money, he said, was released for foreign observers ahead of the 2023 general elections.

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 The naira gained marginally against the United States dollar on Tuesday, appreciating to N1,499/ from an all-time low of N1,534/$ on the official Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market. This means the naira gained by 2.3 per cent or N35, according to FMDQ Exchange, a platform that publishes official foreign exchange trading in the country.

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 A yet-to-be-ascertained number of shops with goods were destroyed in a Tuesday late-night fire that occurred when a gas tanker caught fire along Agbado Road in the Toyin area of Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State. The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, confirmed this on Tuesday.

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 Files of old cases were burnt in the early hours of Tuesday morning when fire engulfed the new Kwara State High Court complex located in the Government Reservation Area, Ilorin, the state capital. Judges working could not also hold their normal court sittings as the fire damaged the main building, including court rooms, litigation department and offices located in the court complex.

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred National Honours on Super Eagles of Nigeria players and technical crew. He conferred the honours on them at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Tuesday.

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 Leader of the military junta in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, has said that none of the three Sahel countries, which recently pulled out of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, would seek re-admission to the group. He also affirmed that the junta ‘will never’ release the deposed president, Mohammed Bazoum, who was taken hostage following the July 26, 2023, coup in the country.

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 The Federal Government said yesterday it was planning to establish a National Commodity Board as a solution to the escalating food inflation in the country. Vice President, Kashim Shettima disclosed this at a two-day high-level strategic meeting on climate change, food systems and resource mobilization held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.

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. Five persons died, while 12 others were injured in an accident which occurred on Tuesday around the Foursquare Church, Ajebo on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The accident which occurred around 1:07 pm involved a Mazda bus with registration number SMK685YG and a Howo truck with registration number ZE-1210G.

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