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Over 600 construction workers on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project downed tools on Wednesday over sudden pay cuts and harsh conditions. The strike brought heavy earth-moving equipment and earthworks to a complete standstill across key construction yards in Cross River State. Discontent had brewed for weeks before workers abandoned their posts, citing unpaid entitlements and…
The United States Department of Labor is preparing to rewrite the rules employers must follow before sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency, after its proposed overhaul of the Permanent Labor Certification programme, known as PERM, cleared White House review. The Office of Management and Budget completed its review on October 23, about six weeks after…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies to investigate a viral video in which a young man leads a group of boys in chants threatening attacks on Christians in Enugu and Jos during Sunday worship. In a statement issued on Tuesday…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has uploaded the preliminary register of voters for the 2027 general election to its online platform, days after the statutory deadline for the publication passed and amid mounting public pressure. Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2026 requires the commission to make copies of the voters’ register available for…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice over 78.8 billion naira in unaccounted welfare spending. The rights group filed suit ECW/CCJ/APP/42/26 in Abuja following damaging disclosures in the Auditor-General’s latest statutory audit report. Paper registers cannot feed poor households. The audit query targets disbursements made…
A mother and her child died instantly at the weekend after two container-laden articulated lorries overturned near Freeman Market at Mile 2 in Lagos. The falling 20-foot shipping containers crushed the two pedestrians beneath tonnes of steel and freight along the busy corridor leading into Apapa port. Cheap logistics often carry bloody tolls. Emergency teams…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Kano State Government commissioned four major transmission substations on Saturday to add 544 megawatts of wheeling capacity to the northern commercial hub. Adeola Labzy, media adviser to the power minister, announced the upgrade across installations at Walalambe, Kumbotso, Dakata, and Dan-Agundi. Heavy industry needs stable grid current. Walalambe…
Nigeria’s daily diesel supply dropped forty per cent in September to hit an uncomfortable thirteen-month low, exposing the fragility of domestic fuel distribution just as transport costs hammer household budgets across the country. Official data released in Abuja by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority showed daily market receipts falling to 8.7 million…
The family of late Afenifere patriarch Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti announced in Akure on Thursday, 22 October 2026, that his funeral service and final interment will take place on 17 December at St David’s Cathedral, Ijomu. The centenarian statesman died peacefully at his Ondo State residence on Tuesday, 20 October, closing a century of principled public…
Pa Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, the centenarian patriarch of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere, died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 100 on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, at his Akure residence, drawing swift national tributes from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and President Bola Tinubu. Old political titans exit the…