Dangote Vs PENGASSAN: Sanusi, Kukah, Oteh, Peterside, Others Wade In, Say Unionism Not Licence to Cripple Economy Maintain strikes may discourage investments Want protection, fair treatment of workers ACF BoT chair condemns ‘deliberate’ sabotage of refinery NUPENG attacks Oshiomhole over alleged anti-labour remarks NLC: Shettima’s position on PENGASSAN, Dangote face-off troubling Emmanuel Addeh and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and John Shiklam in Kaduna
Several eminent Nigerians Dangote Refinery and the geria (PENGASSAN), stressing cripple the Nigerian economy. yesterday intervened in the Petroleum and Natural Gas that workers’ right to organise In a joint statement by the recent face-off between the Senior Staff Association of Ni- should not be overstretched to concerned Nigerians, they also
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Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Bola Tinubu is tention following the retirement National Electoral Commission Yakubu, as everyone is waiting nominate as the next electoral currently the focus of public at- of Chairman of Independent (INEC), Professor Mahmood to see who the president would Continued on page 10
Uche Nnaji, Tinubu’s Minister Accused of Certificate Forgery, Quits
President accepts his resignation Premium Times: How minister’s own letters countered his graduation claim Records show he failed a virology course, MCB 431AB, made two unsuccessful attempts to re-sit the examination
Deji Elumoye and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, accepted the resignation of Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Geoffrey Nnaji, following allegations of multiple certificate forgery against him. Nnaji had been in the eye of the storm, which gathered over alleged inconsistencies with his first degree certificate from the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, that he tendered for screening by the National Assembly as a ministerial candidate over two years ago. Tinubu appointed Nnaji in August 2023. Continued on page 10
DAUDA LAWAL AT DIGITAL GOVERNMENT AFRICA SUMMIT IN LUSAKA...
L-R: President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia; Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State; and Percy Chinyama, National Coordinator of SMART Zambia Institute, at the Digital Government Africa Summit in Lusaka, yesterday