President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has approved the payment of health workers whose salaries were withheld when they embarked on strike.

Minister of labour and employment, CHRIS NGIGE, disclosed this while speaking to journalists after a meeting with the president at the state house in Abuja.

The development comes months after BUHARI promised that the salary arrears of health workers would be cleared, following strike actions embarked upon by health workers.

He said that the wages, which were seized on the premise of the no-work, no pay-rule following strikes embarked upon by the Joint Health Workers Union, have been approved by the President to be released to the health workers on compassionate grounds.

Responding to the grievances by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the minister asserted that since July 2021, a total of N52.1 billion revitalization fund has so far been released to workers in the university system in consonance with an MOA signed in December 2020 and expects that members of ASUU would have been adequately informed about the Federal Government's efforts.

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Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has raised an alarm over plots by Boko Haram and Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) to set up terrorist camps in the state.

He threatened to depose any traditional ruler caught assisting or keeping criminals and told them not to allow non-indigenes with negative mindsets to settle in their domains.

Governor Ishaku stated this while signing the N149 billion 2022 budget of the state into law at the Executive Chamber of the Government House in Jalingo.

"My delay of coming to sign the 2022 budget and address you is because of security challenges," he said. "Boko Haram and ISWAP are trying to set up camps in this state and that is why we had an emergency meeting for over an hour before my coming.

"It is very sad that the traditional rulers are bent on encouraging this insecurity. Let me warn that I will not, and I repeat, I will not tolerate it and will not waste time to remove any traditional ruler that misbehaves.

"I am kind and soft, but can sometimes be decisive, being quiet and gentle does not make me a mere footstalk to be rubbished."

"I must add with emphasis that security is of great concern to all of us; being the quietest state in the North East has its implications.

"I want to also talk to the traditional rulers, while we have warned them severally not to allow non-indigenes to settle in the state, their persistent refusal to abide by this warning is giving a lot of cause for concern to me," Governor Ishaku added.

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A former governor of Abia state and Chief Whip of the senate, ORJI UZOR KALU, has called on the All Progressives Congress to postpone its national convention slated for February 2022.

KALU also appealed to the party to consider conducting the presidential primaries and election of the party's National Working Committee on the same day.

In a letter addressed to Governor MAI MALA BUNI, the national chairman and other members of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, KALU warned that holding the convention in February without sorting out the minor disagreements that arose during the Congress would lead to implosion.

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Erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,  Attahiru Jega, has lamented the state of insecurity in Nigeria.

Jega warned that the 2023 general elections may not hold if the current insecurity is not tackled immediately.

He issued the warning at an event in honour of the late former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi in Ibadan on Thursday.

The former INEC boss said insecurity poses a serious threat to the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

He maintained that adequate security was key to an acceptable election outcome.

According to Jega: "Unless elections are conducted in an environment that is peaceful and secure, its integrity and even the legitimacy of the outcome of that election will be questioned.

"As we look forward to the 2023 general elections, there is increasing apprehension that the pervasive insecurity situation in the country may present a formidable obstacle if not an obstruction to that election.

"If not appropriately and effectively mitigated, security challenges would pose the most serious danger to the integrity of the election process if it evens allows the election to be conducted."

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