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The joint congresses of the four in-house unions of the Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU) Katsina, have suspended the two-week warning strike they embarked upon on Nov. 3, 2025. This was announced in a statement signed by Mr Saminu Salihu-Haiba, the Secretary of the UMYU in-house unions, and issued to...

The Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChE) has urged governments and policymakers to strengthen Small Medium Enterprise (SMEs)-focused industrial parks and cluster hubs across the country. The organisation also called on government to provide tax incentives, access-to-finance instruments for technology-based SMEs and to support local fabrication of processing equipment and...

“Anyone who disrespects a soldier indirectly disrespects the president, who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces,” said Mr Matawalle Defence minister Bello Matawalle has criticised former Governor Nyesom Wike over a standoff involving a naval officer, Lieutenant Ahmed Yerima. The standoff, which occurred on Tuesday, arose over the ownership...

The Chairman, Oru West LGA of Imo, Mr Ikenna Adikibe, on Thursday, unveiled several projects executed by his administration to boost local infrastructure and enhance the people’s wellbeing. It was reported that the projects included a rehabilitated National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) lodge, a new 33kVA transformer, and modern busstops....

The Edo Government has reiterated its commitment to sustaining and expanding the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises in the Niger Delta (LIFE-ND) project. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Jerry Uwangue, disclosed this in Benin during the wrap-up of the Fifth Joint Supervision Mission of the FGN/NDDC/IFAD LIFE-ND Project....

The Citizens Network for National Defence and Development (CN2D) has commended the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, for leading efforts to transform Nigeria from a consumer of defence equipment to a producer, leveraging local capacity, talent, and resources. In a statement released on Wednesday, CN2D praised the signing...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has been credited with transforming Nigeria’s oil industry into a more investor-friendly sector that is attracting development to the ECOWAS sub-region and restoring confidence among global stakeholders. A statement on Wednesday by the West Africa Energy Policy Institute (WA-EPI), led by Executive Director...