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Nigelec, Niger’s electricity company, says Nigeria’s government has cut supply to the neighbouring country, leading to blackouts in major cities. The electricity company disclosed this in an interview with the BBC after power shortages hit the warring country.  Recall that Niger soldiers announced a coup on national TV that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s democratically-elected president. The military junta dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions, and closed the nation’s borders. In response to the coup, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), after an extraordinary session chaired by Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, resolved to impose several sanctions on the military junta that toppled the democratic government in Niger. Part of the sanctions by the regional body was freezing all service transactions, including energy transactions and deals with all financial institutions.  The West African leaders gave Niger’s military junt...

President Bola Tinubu has sent 19 more names to the Senate for screening and confirmation as ministers. Hon.   Femi Gbajabiamila , the Chief of Staff to the President, presented the second batch list to the Senate on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. Gbajabiamila walked into the red chamber amid the screening of the first batch of nominees, so the letter was kept sealed by Senate President,  Godswill Akpabio  until the conclusion of the exercise. In the new list are five former Governors:  Gboyega Oyetola  (Osun),  Simon Lalong  (Plateau),  Bello Matawalle  (Zamfara),  Atiku Bagudu  (Kebbi), and  Ibrahim Gaidam  (Yobe). This comes barely a week after the President, via Gbajabiamila, submitted the first list of 28 nominees to the red chamber. The Senate has already concluded the screening of 28 nominees in the first batch. The Senate, at the commencement of the exercise on Monday, July 31, 2023, screened former governor of Ri...

Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State chapter, has directed all the doctors working in the three government hospitals on the Lagos Island to begin an indefinite strike over the death of its colleague, Dr Vwaere Diaso. The NMA also declared a five-day mourning period in the state and asked doctors in the other government-owned hospitals to scale down activities as a mark of respect for the dead colleague. The hospitals to embark on the indefinite strike are the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos; Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Lagos, and the Massey Street Children’s Hospital, Lagos. The association said Diaso died on Tuesday at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos, after she was trapped in the elevator for more than 40 minutes before she was rescued, and there was no blood available to resuscitate her. The NMA made this known in a press statement signed by its state Chairman, Dr Benjamin Olowojebutu, and Secretary, Ismail Ajibowo, on Wednesday. “The NMA Lagos State received with rude shoc...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu (right) assessing the site of the private helicopter crash at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, being conducted round by the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr Femi Oke-Osayintolu (left), on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu speaking to journalists after assessing the site of the private helicopter crash at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu assessing the site of the private helicopter crash at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, on Tuesday, 1 August, 2020

LAGOS, NIGERIA – One of Africa’s fastest-growing companies and Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Sterling Bank, has joined forces with the Lagos State Government to expand the reach of its health care provision with the launch of the Ilera Eko Virtual Booth, designed to bring healthcare closer to the people and expand the reach of its health insurance scheme; Ilera Eko, across the state.  This announcement was made by Mr. Obinna Ukachukwu, Divisional Head of Business Growth at Sterling Bank, during the inaugural Lagos State Insurance Summit held in Lagos recently. He said the bank and the Lagos State Health Management Agency; LASHMA plans to leverage technology to bring health these insurance booths to where most of the informal sector work, thus expanding the reach of healthcare services to residents of the state.  He noted that most residents earn daily pay from their trade locations, making it difficult for them to leave and go to the clinic when sick, hence the need...

  Super Falcons World football body FIFA has announced its plan to pay prize money directly into the players’ accounts of the winners of the ongoing women’s World Cup in Australia/New Zealand. FIFA Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura, confirmed this in a viral video on social media saying the policy change is due to unpaid allowance issues involving Nigeria’s Super Falcons. The Falcons head coach, Randy Waldrum, had earlier revealed that some players were owed “per diem and bonuses” from two years ago. The development caused a stir and almost affected the preparation of the Super Falcon players with most of them insisting on missing the training to protest their unpaid bonuses. However, in the video, Samoura acknowledged that “things have been tough” for the Falcons. She added that FIFA for the first time would monitor that match bonuses got to the players directly. “I know that things have been tough. We have to face the realities of Nigeria. It pains me a lot. It is becaus...

The two-day meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, with the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders vowing to begin a nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. This came as oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association began an indefinite strike on Tuesday, citing inhumane treatment by the management of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, an agency of the Federal Government. The strike and planned protest by the organised labour slated for Wednesday (today) over the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government may shut down the country and paralyse the economy. Oil workers had earlier on Tuesday staged a protest and shut down the commission’s office in Lagos, while also vowing to shut down the agency’s offices nationwide. Speaking on the planned strike on Tuesday, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said the organised labour had no reason ...