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…. Govt , union reschedule enlarged truce meeting for tomorrow THE leadership of Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria, JDWAN, yesterday, suspended its seven days strike, over alleged extortion by officials of the Lagos State Park and Garages Management on major roads in the state. The suspension is pending further resolutions of the matter, as some members of the group said they won’t resume until their grievances are resolved. JDWAN members had, Monday, embarked on a seven-day warning strike, which entered the third day, yesterday. However, the JDWAN, led by Akintade Abiodun, yesterday, directed its members to return to work at the end of a crucial stakeholders’ meeting with representatives of the state government, led by Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, MOT, Gbolahan Toriola, held at the ministry’s conference hall, Alausa, Ikeja. In the wake of the strike action, the state government had summoned the leadership of the unregistered union to the meeting with the

  University of Lagos student, Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga,  has denied killing the deceased in a confessional video that was played before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday, October 18. This was her claim when the court resumed watching of the recorded video footage of the confessional statement of the prime suspect. In the video recording played before the court,  Chidinma denied knowledge of who killed the deceased. According to her, she went out on the said day and by the time she returned, she saw Ataga on the floor and she quickly picked her things and left because she was scared. “I don’t know who entered I just picked my things and left because I was scared.”she said This is contrary to her confession when the video showing the lifeless body of Ataga was earlier played at the last proceedings on October 11, 2022, where she said that she killed the decease

A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv early on Tuesday. A Reuters witness said, the latest strike on a city hours after the United States warned that it would hold Russia accountable for war crimes. The missile, which caused one of three explosions heard in the southern city in the early hours of Tuesday, completely destroyed one wing of the building in the downtown area, leaving a massive crater. A fire crew pulled the dead body of a man from the rubble, the witness said. Monday brought Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv and other cities, in which at least four people were killed, the second wave of air strikes in a week. The Russian strikes followed advances by Ukrainian forces in the east and south and after an Oct. 8, blast on a bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea, the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. “Right now, there is a new Russian drone attack,’’ Zelenskiy, said in a Monday evening video address. “There are (drones

There was pandemonium on Monday when hoodlums invaded the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign mega rally in Kaduna and launched an attack on the crowd. The hoodlums came into the Ranchers Bees Stadium venue with sticks and machetes  and started attacking the crowd, leaving many injured. The hoodlums invaded the venue three times before they were finally repelled by security operatives and members of the opposition party. Reacting to the development, the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, condemned the attacks on supporters of his party in Zamfara and Kaduna states. According to Atiku, the attacks in Kaduna and Zamfara, which led to the death of a PDP member, were direct attempts to suppress the legitimate campaigns of the party in the states. This was disclosed in a statement he signed on Monday. He said, “I have received reports of coordinated attacks on members of our great party, the PDP, by thugs in Zamfara State, which reportedly led to the death of one of

By Christian Appolos, Clement Idoko And Tunbosun Ogundare: APPARENTLY  to whittle down the influence of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and ensure that it no longer retains the power to cripple academic activities in Nigerian universities, the Federal Government, through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, said it had registered two new unions of lecturers.  The two unions:  Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) , Ngige said, were registered after due consideration following series of letters written to the Ministry of Labour and Employment by the lecturers who made up the two new unions.  He said the lecturers had in the letters complained of ASUU’s maltreatment and further declared their interest to break away from their parent union.  Ngige, who made this known in his office in Abuja when he played host to the two unions, said that the Trade Union Act empo