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August, 2023

  • 5 August

    FG Asks Over 500 Civil Service Directors and Others to Retire

    About 512 directors in the Nigerian civil service will have been forced to retire due to the implementation of the newly revised Public Service Rules, 2021, by the Federal Government. The revised rules, which took effect from July 27, 2023, were launched by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation on July 28, 2023, in Abuja. ...

  • 5 August

    31 Yrs after, Putin Reopens Russian Embassy In Burkina Faso

    Putin has reopened the Russian embassy in Burkina Faso for the first time in 31 years. The President of the Russian Federation is confident that the work of the Russian diplomatic mission will give an additional impetus to the development of relations between the two countries. . Russian President Vladimir Putin expects that the opening of the Russian Embassy in ...

  • 5 August

    Tinubu orders total closure of Katsina-Niger borders

    Due to the recent coup in Niger Republic, Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Adewale Bashir Adeniyi, was in Katsina on Friday to ensure compliance with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive to close all Nigeria’s land borders linking Nigeria with Niger Republic, pending a peaceful resolution. Addressing newsmen on Friday at Jibia Magama Border, Mr Adeniyi said ...

  • 5 August

    Dropped ministerial nominee, Shetty’s rude shock !

    Maryam Shetty, a ministerial nominee from Kano state, was at the Senate for screening when she got the news of being dropped. Accompanied by some associates, the dropped nominee drove into the National Assembly Complex in a black SUV. Dressed in a black flowing gown with a red head gear, Shetty had a sun shade on her face. In a ...

  • 5 August

    Bode George asks Tinubu to avoid war, ‘ it’s not tea party’

    I write to you as a Nigerian, a retired General in the Nigerian military, a patriot and a war tactician. On July 26, 2023, the Commander of the Presidential Guard in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, seized power and is now the new strongman of the Nigerien Armed Forces. As the leader of ECOWAS, you immediately ...

  • 4 August

    NLC angry as FG sues, vows to resume strike Aug 14 !

    Barely 24 hours after meeting with President Bola Tinubu where an agreement was reached to call off their protests, the rapprochement between the organised labour and the Federal Government appeared to have collapsed as the unions on Thursday night vowed to embark on a nationwide strike from August 14 if their leaders were summoned for contempt of court orders. According ...

  • 4 August

    Knocks on APC for chosen Ganduje as Chairman

    Negative remarks are trending more than positives, about the within party decision to appoint Former Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje by the ruling All Progressives Congress. Some insultively refer to him as one of the thieves, bribe takers and treasury looters.” The former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, is the new National Chairman of the ruling party. Many are ...

  • 4 August

    BREAKING: Tinubu withdraws nomination of Maryam Shetty as minister, picks Keyamo, Mahmud

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, as minister. The president also withdrew the ministerial nomination of Maryam Shetty from Kano and replaced her with Dr Mairiga Mahmud. Tinubu announced this is a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read during plenary on Friday. The ministerial nomination of ...

  • 3 August

    Shocker ! “Tinubu’s a liar, no Kobo saved since Subsidy Removal”

    A lie has been put to claims making round by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that N1trn was saved within two months of the subsidy removal. President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, claimed that the committee that the Federal Government set up to negotiate with the unions disclosed that not a single kobo had been saved since subsidy was ...

  • 2 August

    Tragedy !. Elevator crushes lady Dr. to death 2wks to end housemanship

    A medical doctor, Dr. Vwaere Diaso, Tuesday, died at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, after an elevator she took crashed. She had just two weeks left to the completion of her housemanship at the hospital. Though the manner of her death is being concealed, YOUNEWS’ sources maintained that the hospital elevator that killed the late Diaso crashed from the ...