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*'Wike Is On The Run! Staff Are Following Him!' *Why Are They Following The Minister? Are They Following With Cutlasses To Harm Him?, Aide Queries By Felix Durumbah, Abuja A video depicting striking workers of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) mocking the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, as fleeing from protesting staff by taking an alleged back gate, has sparked a reaction from the Minister's camp. The two minute-forty-our seconds video,which has since gone viral, showed some persons, described by the narrator, a male voice, as FCTA workers amid a rowdy atmosphere on a road. People&Politics, a keen follower of…

By Felix Durumbah, Abuja A mammoth crowd of striking employees of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) today besieged the National Industrial Court (NIC), Abuja, venue of resumed sitting into the case filed by FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, and FCTA, against the workers, represented by two leaders of their umbrella Joint Unions Action Congress (JUAC). The two are Mrs Rifkatu Iortyer (president, first Respondent) and Abdullahi Umar Saleh (secretary, second Respondent). Wike and FCTA were listed as first and second Claimants in the matter. Bearing placards emblazoned with various inscriptions calling for better conditions of service, the workers, who have…

*Past FCT Ministers Never Allowed Labour Issues Get To Court,He Notes By Felix Durumbah, Abuja To the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, has come wise counsel over the continued face-off with staff members of FCT Administration (FCTA),who have been on indefinite strike over poor conditions of service since Monday last week. The counsel is: Urgently withdraw the case in court,delegate the FCTA Head of Service or Chief of Staff to the Minister to negotiate with the workers' leaders on their demands and immediately implement any agreement reached by the parties. The wise words came from retired…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Placing its members' sorrows before God Almighty, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, has beseeched heaven to intervene and free the remaining persons of the 177 worshippers recently kidnapped by terrorists in Kurmin Wali in the LGA. The body today organized a special prayer session for their safe return. The worshippers were abducted from different churches during routine Sunday service. The prayer session, held at Tawaliu Baptist Church in Maraban Kajuru, brought together Christian leaders from across Kaduna State and the wider Northern region as families of the…

*Tell Him Muslim LG Chair, Muslim Ex-Vice-Chair Also Held By Same Boko Haram -Official *Activist Reveals ISWAP Secret Night Market By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Popular Borno State-born human rights activist and Director General (DG), Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Rev. Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, has sounded the alarm over what he alleged to be the discriminatory input of the State government in efforts towards release of 13 of 28 females recently abducted by Boko Haram in the troubled North-East state. Rev. Dikwa said those released, allegedly through state government's facilitation, are all Muslims, querying why similar…