Recall that the governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum rejected the proposed N60,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers. In a statement issued by the Director of Media and Public Affairs for NGF, Halimah Ahmed, the governors said the proposed minimum wage was too high and not sustainable. The governors said if the […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ,NCDC, revealed this in its latest Lassa fever situation report for week 21. NCDC noted that the number of confirmed cases increased from four in week 20 to 10 in the reporting week, adding that the number of suspected cases increased compared to that reported for the […]
President Tinubu made the appeal at a meeting with a delegation of the International Finance Corporation ,IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, led by its Managing Director, Makhtar Diop in Abuja. He urged global financiers to consider more strategic investments in agriculture, infrastructure, research, and development on the continent.Tinubu said the expectations of […]
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said this in Abuja after a Federal Government delegation on the new minimum wage met with the President. The FG delegation includes Idris; Edun; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; Labour Minister Nkiruka Onyejeocha; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu; Chief of […]
The sleek design shared in the Super Eagles X page has been generating significant buzz among football fans and fashion enthusiasts alike. The new design was modeled by Wilfred Ndidi who will likely captain the Super Eagles in the absence of the trio of Ahmed Musa, William Troost-Ekong and Kenneth Omeruo. The country’s 2018 World […]
The draw taking place in Bogota, Colombia, will see the 24 qualified teams divided into six groups of four teams each for the final competition. Falconets, who have qualified for every edition of the competition and have been runners-up twice, losing to Germany on both occasions in 2010 and 2014, secured a place in the […]
At briefing, leaders of NLC and TUC pleaded with Nigerians to bear with them, saying “Apologies for inconveniences but commitment to pursue the cause to its conclusion.” Recall that there had been report that Organised Labour under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, might […]
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN, is leading the Federal Government’s legal team against the state governors who are being represented by various lawyers. To do justice to the issues in dispute, a 7-man panel of Justices of the Apex Court, led by Justice Garba Lawal, has kick-started […]
It stated that the cash transfer programme was overhauled to tackle fraud. The Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, announced this at the ministerial sectoral briefing to mark the first year in office of the President Bola Tinubu administration in Abuja. On January 12, Tinubu suspended all the programmes […]
The NLC’s Deputy President of Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, spoke to newsmen at the end of a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage, where Labour rejected the Federal Government’s fresh offer of N60,000, up from the N57,000 earlier proposed. The Federal Government added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 […]