Resident Doctors at the Ondo State University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, has shut down hospitals and commenced a warning strike over unpaid salaries. The doctors, who marched to the office of the Chief Medical Director, said they were being owed four months’ salary. The doctors began the strike on Sunday and threatened to embark on an indefinite strike next Monday. They decried a situation where other health workers under health management board are receiving their salaries regularly. Spokesman of the aggrieved doctors, Dr Taiwo Olagbe, appealed to well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the state government to…
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General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has kicked against the proposed regulation of social media by the Federal Government. He condemned the proposal as laughable, insensitive and an attempt to gauge the common man. Adeboye spoke on Sunday at the RCCG headquarters November thanksgiving service with the theme “Better days ahead”. He said the attempts to regulate the social media as done in China won’t work in Nigeria because the variables are so different. “The best the government can do is to ensure that the news being carried through the social media is…
Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka will this month release a new novel, titled: Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth. It is coming 48 years after his two works – The Interpreters (1965) and Season of Anomy (1973). The new work will be on sale before end of the year. The novel is published by Bookcraft Publishing, Ibadan. In a statement, Soyinka gave an excerpt from the book, with the heading: A Parable From National Urban Reality. It reads: “While the formal fact-finding panels pursue their assignment, and bewildered minds attempt to absorb the turn of events, reflect upon, and engage in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again urged the youth to end their street protests and work with the government to find solutions to issues that agitate their minds. The President, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at the maiden National Youth Day celebration – observed on November 1 and coinciding with the African Youth Day celebration – encouraged the youth to have meaningful discussions with government in order to have comprehensive reforms to police brutality. The President, who was represented by the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammed Bello, told the gathering that his administration had carefully listened to the…
Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus has tested positive for COVID-19. He announced the status in a series of tweet on his verified handle @Dr.Tedros. According to him: “I’ve been identified as a contact person of someone who has COVID-19 symptoms, I am well and without symptoms but will self quarantine over the coming days and self quarantine from home. “My colleagues and I at WHO will continue to engage with partners in solidarity to save lives and protect the vulnerable”,he added. Ghebreyesus and other officials at the WHO have been at the forefront of fighting…
The Federal Government on Sunday criticised the Academic Staff Union Universities, saying issues concerning seven-month strike by the union were confusing. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview with one of correspondents in Abuja, accused the union of muddling things up over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. But in its response, the union said government wanted to turn Nigerians against university lecturers. Recall that ASUU had on March 23 begun an indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s insistence on implementing the IPPIS, which the government said all its employees must adopt…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to youths to end all protests and focus on engaging government to find answers to their grievances. The President, who spoke at the maiden National Youth Day celebration on November 1, which coincided with the African Youth Day celebration, encouraged the youths to rather go for meaningful discussions with government for comprehensive reforms to end all forms of police brutality against Nigerians. Buhari, who was represented by the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammed Bello, told the gathering his administration has heard the pleas of youths. The President also announced that over one…
The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has said the results for Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, will be released today, November 2. WAEC made the announcement via its Twitter handle, on Sunday. It wrote: “This is to inform candidates that sat West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates, 2020, that the results of that exam will be released by @waecnigeria tomorrow, Monday, November 2, 2020 by 10:30am.
UFC star, Israel Adesanya, can expect to get back in the Octagon fairly soon, though it won’t be to defend his middleweight title. UFC President Dana White told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto that Adesanya will move up to light heavyweight to face Jan Blachowicz. White and Adesanya reportedly spoke about the move Friday with the undefeated Nigeria-born New Zealander on board to switch weight classes. Adesanya was spotted at UFC Fight Night 181 in Las Vegas on Saturday and had a small back-and-forth with middleweight Kevin Holland after the latter defeated Charlie Ontiveros via technical knockout. Holland appeared to call out…
The acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations and 81 Division’s spokesperson, Major Osoba Olaniyi, has said the military will not disclose the number of its personnel deployed in the Lekki toll gate. Newsmen report that soldiers shot peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, 2020. Though the army initially denied involvement in the Lekki shootings, it later disclosed that its officers were invited by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to enforce a curfew imposed on the state last Tuesday. But a lawyer, Nurudeen Yusuf, had sued the Lagos State Government and others, arguing…