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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has returned its President, Ayuba Wabba, unopposed for a second term of four years. Wabba will head a 16-member National Administrative Council (NAC), of NLC, who were equally elected unopposed to administer the affairs of NLC for the next four years. Three persons elected unopposed as Deputy Presidents were Amaechi Asugwuni, Muhammad Nadir Idris, and Najim Usman Yasin, while Ibrahim Khaleel, was elected National Treasurer. Four persons elected Vice-Presidents were Abdrafiu Adeniji, Peters Adeyemi, Lawrence Amaechi and Oyelakan Lateef who was returned unopposed. Other officials elected include Marven Adamu, National Financial Secretary and Adewale Adeyanju,…

The Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission, RMAFC, stated that the Nigeria is losing $14.235 billion annually in revenue from Joint Venture Contracts, JVC, due to continuous decline in crude oil production. Speaking in Abuja at the National Policy and Development, NPOD, Summit 2019, on the theme: ‘Interrogating the change agenda,’ in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr. Shettima Abba-Gana, acting Chairman of RMAFC, lamented that the country is not benefitting from existing Joint Venture Contracts, JVCs. Abba-Gana noted that the federation earns between 55 per cent and 60 per cent share of all JVCs operated by NNPC, while companies under Production…

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has dismissed the endorsement of the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by some socio-cultural groups in the country, saying it may not affect the outcome of the election significantly. Reacting to an enquiry made by Vanguard on the implication of the endorsement of Atiku by the groups, the secretary of the umbrella body of the north, Anthony Sani, said the endorsement was “nothing new”, adding that ACF does not share the views of Northern Elders Forum, NEF. “Many media houses have been asking for reactions on the endorsement of PDP presidential candidate in…

President of the Senate, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on the Federal Government to immediately end the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. ASUU commenced the strike 62 days ago to press the federal government to meet its demands, including adequate funding of universities in the country. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki emphasised the need for re-opening of Nigeria’s universities without further delay. According to him, the education of Nigeria’s young people is being negatively affected by the stance of the government and also disenfranchising…

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, Wednesday, said the state belongs to President Muhammadu Buhari. This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, will soon commence drilling for a deeper search for oil and gas in the Benue Trough. The governor, who stated this while receiving the President who was on a campaign in the state at the Nigeria Air Force Base, Makurdi, also said the President could do whatever he wished in the state, being the President of Nigeria. He said: “He is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and whatever…

The Organised Labour is poised for a titanic battle with the political class over the planned sale of the nation’s refineries. Recall that Alhaji Abubukar Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Candidate, has made it clear that if elected President, he would privatise Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. But, Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President, who spoke to delegates and other guests at the ongoing 12th Quadrennial National Delegates of the congress, in Abuja, insisted that the privatisation programme in the country had failed and must be jettisoned. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reasoned that what the refineries needed was…

President Donald Trump has called for a bipartisan commitment to eradicate AIDS in the United States and beyond within a decade. Speaking in a State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump said, “Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach,” Trump said in his annual address to Congress. “My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” he said. “Together, we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond.” Some 38,000 people were infected with HIV in the United States in 2017, according to…

Cattle rearing is a big business in Akwa Ibom State. In Uyo, the state capital, it portends danger to the teeming populace, states Dr. Edem Eniang, a natural conservation expert. What is the government doing to check the menace posed by the business? A native of Itu local government area, Akwa Ibom State, Edem as an Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Environmental Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo, Uyo, looks at the menace and other related issues and proffers solutions to such. In this interview, Straightnews publishes excerpts of his views. Do You Have Passion for Wildlife?…

Dangote Group, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, NLNG, Lafarge Africa Plc and three other companies have keyed into the federal government’s drive to build infrastructure across Nigeria. The companies, which also include Unilever Nigeria Plc, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, and China Road and Bridge Corporation Nigeria Limited, will build19 roads, totalling 794.4 kilometres in 11 states across each of the six geopolitical zones of the country. The affected states and roads are not yet mentioned. This is made possible with the signing of executive order 007 2019, by President Muhammadu Buhari to allow private companies construct and refurbish…

All Progressives Congress, APC, says it is concerned about the way Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has used falsehood to discredit state institutions involved in the forthcoming elections in the eyes of Nigerians and the international community. ”On a daily basis, the PDP has invented one lie after the other to discredit state institutions in the eyes of Nigerians and the international community,” the party said in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, in Abuja Tuesday. Issa-Onilu said as the general elections approach “the APC had watched with consternation how the PDP in the last couple of…