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Just five days ago, the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, boycotted a meeting with the Federal Government over the ongoing strike action by its members. In the five weeks the industrial action has lasted, the JOHESU and the Federal Ministry of Health have met six times but failed to reach a peaceful resolution of the trade disputes. Blames, as expected, are flying back and forth. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, accuses the JOHESU of turning down the Ministry’s overtures for peaceful settlement, while the health workers charge the Minister of posing as a barrier to the resolution of…

The Federal High Court in Abuja Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a self-acclaimed United Kingdom-based private investigator, Chief Victor Uwajeh. Justice John Tsoho directed security agencies to arrest and produce the defendant in court on June 4 for arraignment. Uwajeh, who was accused of attempting to obtain money through fraudulent means from Senator Andy Uba, who is representing Anambra South senatorial district, is facing a four-count charge the Federal Government preferred against him. At the resumed sitting on the matter, government lawyer, Mr. Abubakar Alilu, applied for a bench warrant, following repeated absence of the defendant…

Defence Headquarters said 35 herdsmen terrorising Benue State were killed last weekend, declaring that one soldier was still missing as another was killed and two others wounded in the clearance operation by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke which took off in Taraba, Nasarawa, Zamfara and Benue states. This is even five persons were on Sunday night killed at Mchia village in Logo local government area of Benue State by suspected herdsmen. Similarly, two persons were killed by gunmen at Pasakori village in Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State. Brigadier General John Agim, acting Director of Defence Information, said in…

Following the on-going nationwide strike, the Plateau Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has chided some members of the state branch of Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, of tampering with and adulterating reagent in the laboratories. The doctors also accused the striking health workers of locking up hospital stores and denying those working access to consumables, an indication that the striking health workers were out to sabotage effective healthcare service delivery in the state. But JOHESU and National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, in a reaction, said they had no issues with NMA but the government, stressing that what was…

The Presidency Sunday lamented that some set of Nigerians that had fed fat on the nation’s treasury through corrupt means were working hard to dislodge President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, APC, in collaboration with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through the slogan “change the change.” Those behind the campaign to ensure that President Buhari was sent packing in the 2019 elections, according to the Presidency, include lawmakers, police, Customs and Immigration officials, and civil servants. Others, according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, include importers of…

Two Nigerians, who operated a London-based cybercrime group, have been jailed after reportedly stealing more than £1million. Emmanuel Mmaduike and Olawale Kashimawo, both 31, obtained thousands of business email addresses and passwords which they used to divert payments from companies to themselves, according to the UK National Crime Agency. They were said to have operated from south-east London and spent the money on “a lavish lifestyle.” Sky News reports that they hired a helicopter, drove “flash cars”, and “posed for photographs of themselves with wads of money, expensive watches and drinking champagne.” Known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), the operation…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to submit himself for an independent inquest in his handling of the N1.4 trillion oil subsidy regime. A statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, said “Such inquest, which is already backed by state governors across board, will not only expose humongous corruption but also show the world that our African Union (AU) Anti-Corruption champion had not been totally spotless.” According to the party, “We invite Nigerians to note that the demand by governors to probe all subsidy deals since 2015 is a direct indictment on President Buhari as…

Aliko Dangote Foundation has earmarked N10 billion for empowerment of vulnerable women in the 774 local government areas in the country. Already, 25,000 disadvantaged women in Niger State have benefited from the foundation’s unconditional Micro-grants Programme. This brings the total number of women beneficiaries to 256,500 across in seven states of the federation. Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Aliko Dangote Foundation, stated this weekend at the flag-off ceremony held at Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre, Minna, the Niger State capital, saying 1,000 women were drawn from each of Niger State’s 25 local government areas. “The Micro-grants programme is one component…

The Police have apprehended two suspected gang leaders who were declared wanted in connection with the April 2, 2018 multiple bank robberies in Offa, Kwara State. This brings the number of suspects in Police custody to 22. The two suspects were identified as Kunle Ogunleye, 35, a . k . a Arrow, a native of Oro town in Kwara State; and Micheal Adikwu, a dismissed Police Corporal and a convict. The Force spokesman , Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that the two suspected arrowheads have confessed to their roles in the heist and would be…

The lust of the body tempted a 53-year-old pastor to have slept and impregnated an under age girl and he was publicly flogged contrary to his priestly calling. GossipMill purported that Prophet Michael of Celestial Church of Christ parish in Ilashe, Ogun State, was disgraced for allegedly abducting and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who was missing since February. The suspect from Ondo State allegedly abducted the girl in February and sexually abused her for months till she became pregnant. It is said that Michael hid the girl in his house despite a search party launched for her whereabouts by the…