In Bid to Avoid Promotion Interview, Electricity Union Throws Nigeria into Total Blackout Action triggers collapse of national grid NUEE suspends strike for two weeks after meeting with FG officials Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Power sector workers yesterday
made good their threat to embark on a nationwide strike, shutting down power stations countrywide and setting off another electricity
grid collapse around 3pm. But after throwing the entire nation into a total blackout for several hours with its attendant
loss of productivity which may have run into billions of naira, the workers suspended the industrial action by two weeks.
It came after a four-hour conciliation meeting between the federal government and the striking electricity workers
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At 81st Birthday, IBB Says Nigeria’s Insecurity Would be Over Soon Charges citizens to be patient, prayerful NHRC commends Nigerian armed forces Kingsley Nwezeh, Michael Olugbode in Abuja, Laleye Dipo in Minna, Fidelis David in Akure and Ibrahim Shuaibu in Dutse
Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, sounding a note of hope and
optimism on the eve of his birthday on Wednesday, said the security challenges currently facing the country would be over soon. Babangida, who
turned 81 yesterday, said Nigerians should be patient, prayerful, and supportive of one another. The former head of state spoke
on Tuesday when officials of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Niger State paid him a birthday visit at
his Minna residence. However, not giving up on the Continued on page 10
Masari: APC'll Win 2023 Polls Despite Nation’s Challenges Declares: In 2019, they said it would be difficult for us to win, they were wrong, we won Says Nigeria’s problems have global dimensions Party denies plan to remove Adamu Hammed Shittu in Ilorin and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari, yesterday, boasted that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the 2023 general election, despite the current unpleasant socio-political and worsening security situation in the country. Masari spoke in Igbaja, Kwara State, during the inauguration of an ultra modern hostel/campus named after him by the management of a private university, Al-Hikma University, Ilorin. He said Nigeria’s current challenges were not in isolation, but had global dimensions. In another development, the leadership of APC denied alleged plots to remove its National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu. Examining APC’s chances in the 2023 elections, the Katsina State governor, who spoke with a lot of confidence, explained, "Those saying it will be difficult for the APC Continued on page 10
TINUBU VISITS OBASANJO IN PURSUIT OF HIS LIFELONG AMBITION... L-R: A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC)/Former Ogun State Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba; Governor Dapo Abiodun; Presidential candidate of the APC, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, during a consultative meeting at the residence of the former president held in Abeokuta…yesterday