GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the medical doctors in Ogun State have commenced an indefinite strike over unresolved issues concerning their allowances. The chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Dr Kunle Ashimi, confirmed the commencement of the strike at a press conference in Abeokuta on Tuesday. According to Daily Trust, the industrial action is hinged…
At least 18 passengers were injured after an aircraft belonging to Delta Air Lines, which was on a trip from Minneapolis in the U.S., crashed and overturned while landing at the Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada on Monday evening. The flight was carrying 80 people – 76 passengers and four crew when it crashed. Initial…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have ambushed an Ado-Ekiti-bound 18-passenger bus at Emure Ile, kidnapping all the passengers on board. The incident occurred on the outskirts of Emure-Owo on Sunday night, at the boundary between Ekiti and Ondo states, as the bus was returning from Onitsha. A source at the Road Transport Employers Association…
Barikisu Sulaiman, a housewife, has been taken into custody by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) after reportedly throwing her newborn baby into a gutter in Lokoja, Kogi State. The incident came to light after concerned residents of Karaworo alerted authorities on Sunday. The woman had been dating a man in Adankolo after…
Facebook user, Vincent Udo has raised the alarm over a theft he claims took place on Monday at a shopping complex in Abuja. Udo’s Facebook post, which has quickly gone viral, includes a CCTV footage that shows three women dressed in hijabs stealing three laptops from a store. In the video, a man who is…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has intensified its enforcement efforts against the sale of illicit and counterfeit pharmaceuticals, sealing over 3,000 shops within the Idumota Open Drug Market in Lagos in the first week of operations. This was made known in a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday…
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has finally thrown its weight behind the proposed tax reform bills currently at the national assembly. In a statement on Thursday, the group proposed an “equitable” sharing formula for value-added tax (VAT). The development was an outcome of a meeting between the NGF and the presidential tax reform committee, convened…
Each member of the House of Representatives takes N600,000 as monthly salary against N900,000, which is being speculated by some Nigerians, its spokesperson, Akin Rotimi, has said. Mr Rotimi made the clarification in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He reaffirmed the commitment of the House to the 50 per cent deduction in their salary…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday announced that Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio has decreased from approximately 97 per cent when he assumed office 17 months ago to 65 per cent currently. Tinubu stated that his administration has managed to keep the country afloat despite inheriting an economy on the brink of bankruptcy. The President stated while…
The Rivers State government has begun implementing the N85,000 minimum wage it recently approved for its workers. According to The Guardian, some public school teachers and some other workers in the state were jubilant as they received their November salary alert and realised that the new minimum wage had been implemented. Recall that President Bola…