Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Kalu has urged Nigerian lawyers and legal practitioners to stand up for the rule of law, adding that doing otherwise will open the society up for chaos.Kalu said this on Tuesday when the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr.
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President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with leaders of labour unions at the State House in Abuja.The meeting followed the ongoing nationwide protest by members of organised labour across the country.UNITY TIMES reports that members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Wednesday, occupied major
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President Bola Tinubu has sent the second list of ministerial nominees to the Senate.Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, submitted the second batch of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list to the Senate on Wednesday.The second nominees’ list is a follow-up to the initial list of 28 ministerial nominees
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The Senate, on Wednesday, set up a committee to dialogue with protesting unions who broke down the National Assembly Complex first gate.The protesters in their hundreds had marched from the Unity Fountain in Abuja to the NASS Complex in demonstration against the “anti-poor” people policies of the President Bola Tinubu
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The Chiefs of Defence Staff from 15 ECOWAS countries are currently meeting in Abuja to discuss the political situation in Niger Republic.UNITY TIMES reports that the meeting is being led by Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa.The meeting was convened in response to the recent coup d’état in
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, celebrated a 13-year-old Nigerian, Joshua Agboola, who emerged as the youngest Certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) Developer Associate in Africa.Mr Obi took to his Twitter page to recognise Master Agboola while highlighting the vital role education plays in every child’s life.“This
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday, at the State House, Presidential Villa, met with the United Kingdom (UK) Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, James Cleverly.Cleverly was accompanied to the State House by the UK High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, Ms Kate Foster, Charles Hanen, Alice
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has lost his appeal against the United Kingdom (UK) government regarding his detention in Nigeria.Kanu has been detained at the facility of the State Security Service (SSS) since he was rearrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in
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The organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) are currently carrying out their mass protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.The protesters numbering over 5,000, who have been peaceful, first converged at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, close to Transcorp Hilton Hotel, from where they
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has reacted to the alleged theft of his phone at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday.A video of Obi complaining about his missing phone at the court in Abuja went viral on social media.However, his spokesman, Valentine Obienyem, has clarified
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