In a pivotal move towards fostering unity and progress, Hon. Kevin Solomon Olaoluwa (KSO), the Senior Special Assistant on Students Affairs to Ondo State Governor, convened a crucial resolution meeting with the executive members and stakeholders of the Ose Local Government Students’ Association of Nigeria (OSESAN NATIONAL). The meeting, held in his office, highlighted KSO’s…
The fuel scarcity crisis in Nigeria has taken a tragic turn, as the chairman of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) for Akure South Local Government, Oluwatuyi Olasoji, has passed away. Olasoji collapsed while waiting to purchase fuel at a filling station in Akure, Ondo State. Local reports indicate that the incident occurred…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have expressed concerns over the safety of residents around the submerged zoo parks in Borno state. Thousands of residents fled their homes following a devastating flood in parts of Maiduguri, Borno state capital. In separate statements on Tuesday, the CSOs described the situation as…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has clarified why its officers visited the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project’s Abuja office on Monday. The secret police, in a statement on its website on Tuesday, explained that contrary to reports that its officers raided SERAP’s office, the agents were detailed for routine investigation. The DSS insisted that…
The Federation Account Allocations Committee (FAAC) disbursements to the Federal Government (FG), 36 states and 774 local governments (LG) rose by 149.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) to N13.72 trillion in the first seven months (January to July) of 2024, 7M ’24, from N5.5 trillion in the corresponding period of 2023. Details of data from the National…
More facts are emerging on possible reasons the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. The NLC President was picked up by DSS operatives on Monday morning at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja on his way outside the country for an…
Ahead of its centenary celebration, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church Worldwide, has called on Prophets from any of its fold to stop rituals for youths specializing in internet fraud, popularly known as “Yahoo Yahoo”. Speaking at its pre-centenary revival in Osogbo on Monday, Chairman, C&S Unification Osun State, Senior Apostle Samuel Onigbinde, disclosed that the…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been released from custody on bail. The development was confirmed by the Omoyele Sowore, the .presidential candidate of the African Action Congress party in a post on social media platform X. It can be recalled that Ajaero was arrested on…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero; and the Secretary General, Emmanuel Ugboaja will be questioned by the Nigeria Police Force on September 30, 2024. They will be grilled over petitions written against the NLC, The PUNCH learnt on Monday. Human rights lawyer and counsel for the NLC, Femi Falana, SAN, in…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has issued a Monday midnight to the Federal Government to unconditionally release its President, Joe Ajaero, or face dire consequences. NLC has therefore fixed a National Executive Council, NEC, meeting for Tuesday, 9am to take appropriate response if Ajaero was not released. In a communiqué at the end of its…
