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US oil giant ExxonMobil has joined Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to announce job cuts. Exxon said Monday it plans to reduce its European workforce by up to 1,600 across the company’s affiliates by the end of 2021 as part of its global review. This is as Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), another oil giant Friday had said it was disengaging 25 per cent of its total staffers in a decision it said was to aid its long term survival, following the recent downturn in the oil industry. ExxonMobil said…

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Kukah, has affirmed that Nigeria could find redemption and hope again through prayers. Bishop Kukah, who stated this in a recent interview with journalists, bemoaned that Nigeria is gradually drifting towards total implosion, saying the country’s internal crisis has become a Molotov cocktail that urgently needs to be stopped from setting the nation on fire. Against that backdrop, he praised the religious leaders who declared special prayers for the nation during the 60th Independence Anniversary celebration. “However, the President himself has told the Service Chiefs that their best is not good enough…

Staffers of University of Uyo branch of Joint Action Committee (JAC), Akwa Ibom State have joined their counterparts in Nigeria on a 14-day warning strike over alleged indiscriminate deductions of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The unions are Senior Staff Association Of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU. Non-Academic Staffers of universities nationwide proceeded on a 14-day warning strike from Monday, October 5, over the inconsistencies of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, non-payment of arrears of national minimum wage, non-payment of Earned Allowances among others. SSANU in…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has urged Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to assist in rescuing a female lawyer abducted in Port Harcourt recently. Olumide Akpata, president of the NBA in a statement said: “I received reports that Paulette Bisola Ajayi, a lawyer & daughter of Ngozi Ajayi (also a lawyer) was abducted by at least 4 gunmen dressed in combat fatigues & dark t-shirts in front of her home in Rumukurushi, Port Harcourt, as she was waiting for her gate to be opened. “Her mother and others who tried to prevent her from being taken away were brutalised and…

An American astrophysicist, Andrea Ghez, was among three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for her role in discovering a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Ghez, 55, shared the honor with German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, who was also cited for his work on the galactic black hole, and with Roger Penrose, a British mathematical physicist cited for his discovery that Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts the formation of black holes. Ghez, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, became the fourth woman to win a physics Nobel, following…

Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has felicitated Ekiti man who emerged the Best Teacher in Nigeria on Monday. Mr. Henry Olaoluwa Asubiojo, a teacher at Amoye Grammar School, Ikere-Ekiti, was announced National Best Teacher in Abuja on Monday as part of activities marking the 2020 World Teachers’ Day. Fayemi in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, described Asubiojo’s feat as “highly commendable and heartwarming.” The Governor said he was not surprised at the feat because Asubiojo, had demonstrated the stuff he was made of having emerged the Best Teacher (secondary school category) in Ekiti State,…

The factional Chairman of the Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, David Imuse, and the chairman of the Osagie Ize-Iyamu campaign council in the September 19 Edo governorship election, John Mayaki, have been dragged before a Benin City High Court. The Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, who is suing them is demanding N10 billion over alleged libel. Igini also demanded a full-page unreserved apology, to be published by the two people, in every edition of The Punch Newspapers, Tribune, Guardian, and Sun Newspapers for seven consecutive times. He wants the public apology to commence not later than…

Amidst cheery weather, President Donald Trump flew out from the military hospital where he was being treated for Coronavirus. He emerged to the clatter of helicopter rotor blades and the cries of supporters chanting, “Trump, Trump, Trump.” Some fans had waited all day to see him and were hoping for another drive-by in his armoured limo, as he had done the day before. Nevertheless, they were happy when he boarded Marine One and flew off over the crowd gathered in front of Walter Reed military hospital in Bethesda, just outside Washington, DC. “I’m not disappointed based on the security,” said…

As the World Teachers’ Day was marked globally on October 5, the Akwa Ibom State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers, Comrade Etim Ukpong has taken a swipe at governments’ lackadaisical attitude towards public education in the Nigeria. Ukpong who spoke this in an interview with Straightnews publisher Monday at NUT House, 2 IBB Avenue, Uyo, said “There is this attitude of government towards the teachers, which is sometime negative. Governments have lackadaisical attitude towards public education in the country. Meanwhile, government is the proprietor of public schools. The Chairman cited “Just to buttress the lackadaisical attitude. This is the…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Randy Waldrum as the Super Falcons head coach, the organisation announced on Monday. The announcement comes more than 12 months after Thomas Dennerby left the role to take up a U17 coaching job with India. Before his latest appointment, Waldrum was the University of Pittsburgh women’s head coach, a job he took immediately after rejecting the Nigerian offer in December 2017. The 64-year-old is no stranger to the women’s game on the global stage as he served as the US U23 coach and head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago team from 2014 to 2016. He will be…