Day: October 8, 2020

IPPIS: Buhari, Varsity Lecturers’ bickering worsens, dashes students’ resumption hope

Precious Ibekwe

No IPPIS enrolment, no Salary – President vows With IPPIS, no work – Lecturers union declares No end in sight to the seven months’ sitting at home by students of the public Universities in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no civil servant, including their lecturers on the payroll of the Federal Government will receive salary henceforth without enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike over disagreement with the Federal Government on the mode…

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PITY! NULGE President slumps, dies in Abuja

Aliyu Aliyu

  The President of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Mr Ibrahim Khaleel, has slumped and died in Abuja. Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ekiti State Chapter, who, on Thursday, confirmed this incident, described Khaleed’s death as a great loss. The congress, in its condolence letter, signed by its Chairman, Comrade Kolapo Olatunde, in Ado-Ekiti, said Khaleel’s death was a great loss, not only to the entire labour movement but also Nigeria as a whole. According to the letter, the deceased contributed positively to the welfare development of labour…

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Nigeria’s 3.1m HIV patients face fresh fake drug threat, CISLAC cries out

Gbenga Adeoti

Rights group, CISLAC, demands the probe of suppliers of HIV/AIDs drugs in Nigeria 3.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria are under a threat posed fake drugs in circulation in the country. The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), which raised this alarm at a press briefing in Lagos, country’s commercial capital, demanded the probe of suppliers of HIV/AIDs drugs in Nigeria. Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa alias Rafsanjani alleged, in a written address sent to Platforms Africa that his group “gathered that the contractors currently sell the…

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How Lagos gas explosion killed 8, injured 37, destroyed 41 houses, shops + PHOTOS

Precious Ibekwe

  The early morning gas plant explosion which rocked Lagos on Thursday has killed eight people; burned and injured 37 others; and destroyed 25 houses and 16 lock up shops. Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who declared this at the scene of the explosion, added that 3 vehicles and 3 motorcycles popularly called Okada were also razed. This explosion, which occured at a gas station in Baruwa area of the metropolis, came barely two weeks after the Ajuwon Iju Isaga gas explosion that killed…

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Another Gas explosion rocks Lagos

Wonuola Olujobi

The casualty figures are still not certain in another gas explosion, which, on Thursday morning, rocked Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Platforms Africa reports. This explosion, which occured at a gas station in Baruwa area of the metropolis, came barely two weeks after the Ajuwon Iju Isaga gas explosion that killed more than two and injured 40 people. According to reports, the explosion occurred around 5.44am at Best Roof Gas Station located at Unity bus stop, Fatade area of Baruwa in Alimoso Local Government Area of the State. “We do not…

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