Tag: Agreement
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BREAKING: Buhari signs AfCFTA agreement in Niamey
President Muhammad Buhari has signed the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement. The signing has just taken place at the 12th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on AfCFTA and the First Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities in Niamey, Niger Republic. Buhari appended his signature to…
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Strike continues, says ASUU despite reaching ‘agreement’ with FG
…we want varsities opened by weekend – FG The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said the eight-week old strike embarked upon by the union would continue until an agreement was reached by the members on government proposals concerning their demands. Ogunyemi said this after the end of a…
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Strike: FG, ASUU reach agreement
The federal government has reached an agreement with striking university lecturers, raising the possibility of ending the teachers’ prolonged industrial action. The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, said the National Executive Committee of the union will review its decisions based on the new commitment by the federal government.…
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Strike: NMA appeals to FG to honour agreements with JOHESU
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has appealed to the Federal Government to honour all agreements with the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), and end the ongoing strike in the nation’s health sector. The association made the appeal on Sunday, in Abuja in a communiqué issued at the end of its 58th Annual General/Scientific and Delegates’…
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Nigeria absent as 44 other African countries sign agreement to establish continental trade area
African countries on Wednesday signed an agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Kigali, capital city of Rwanda. The signing took place during the 10th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) on the AfCFTA. Nigeria was however absent at the signing. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday…
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Arik signs agreement with Presidential Air Fleet
Nigerian carrier, Arik Air and Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on capacity building to assist in imparting proficiency and line training for PAF’s pilots. Arik Air in a statement signed by its Media Consultant, Simon Tumba, on Sunday in Lagos said the agreement was signed by the Commander of…
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Ganduje orders Kano hospitals’ staff to sign anti-strike agreement
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said prospective employees of Giginyu Specialist Hospital and Zoo Road Pediatric Hospital constructed by the state government, may have to sign a bond, forbidding them from going on incessant strikes. Ganduje gave the indication while inaugurating a 20 – man Advisory Committee on the operations of the hospitals,…
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Buhari signs anti-corruption, tax administration, other agreements
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed some international agreements that will reinvigorate his administration’s anti-corruption war, improve national security and boost the nation’s economy among others. The agreements ratified included Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters; Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Civil and Commercial Matters; Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons;…
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Apapa Wharf Road: FG, stakeholders reach agreement as reconstruction begins July 7
Stakeholders on Thursday reached an agreement to take necessary measures in Apapa to ensure commencement of reconstruction of Wharf Road leading to the nation’s major port on July 7. The stakeholders agreed on several issues at a meeting held at the office complex of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing headquarters in Lagos.…
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Buhari reneging on our agreement, we will hit him terribly in 2017 – Avengers
The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA has threatened to resume its suspended militant activities in the oil rich region in the new year should the Federal Government fail to implement the decisions reached with the group before it (the Avengers) and other allied groups agreed to cease fire in 2016. Recall that the deadly terror…