The House of Representatives has called for a review of the 2024 budget projections owing to the free fall of the naira in the past few months. Rising from plenary session yesterday, the lawmakers adopted a motion on matter of public urgent importance titled, “Need to evaluate the implications of the current exchange rates on […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero There are strong indications that Organised Labour will push for N500,000 as the minimum wage as the zonal public hearing on the new wage structure begins on Thursday (today) in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, and Abuja. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in an interview on […]
•Late Alexei Navalny More than 40 countries today demanded an independent international investigation into the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny — and said President Vladimir Putin bore ultimate responsibility. “We are outraged by the death of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny… Russia must allow an independent an...
The House of Representatives, yesterday, described the 2012 Steve Oronsaye Report as outdated and called on President Bola Tinubu to thoroughly review it before going ahead to implement the same. The House, therefore, raised a 23-man committee chaired by House Leader, Julius Ihonvbere, to recommend appropriate measures to mitigate the likely f...
•Police The Southwest Conference of Speakers has called for the immediate creation of state police and devolution of powers. The conference said doing so would address the hydra-headed insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges facing the country, reports The Nation. In a communiqué issued at the of their meeting in Ikogosi-Ekiti, the speak...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has demanded the payment of its N25,000 quarterly accoutrement allowance for medical and dental doctors in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in the federal public service. NARD made this known in its communique issued today at the end of its January National Executive Council meeting and healt...
•Bandits Bandits who abducted seven residents of Kuduru community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on December 28 have demanded N290 million ransom, drugs and foodstuffs to release the hostages. The victims, including a pregnant woman, three children and four adults, have now spent one month and four days in captivity...
•Bandits A ransom of N30 million has been requested for the release of Barrister Cyril Adikwu’s wife and his two in-laws, who were abducted from the Army estate in Kurudu. Recall that kidnappers invaded the estate on Thursday night at about 10 pm and took away his wife and two in-laws, reports The Nation. Adikwu, […]
•Beta Edu Anger over the memo issued by the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, instructing the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, to pay N585m into the private bank account of a project accountant in her ministry, Bridget Oniyelu, spiked yesterday, with the opposition parties calli...
•Matchete A suspect identified as Ibrahim Salisu has been taken into custody by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly macheting his brother, Malaimi Yellow, to death over alleged sexual demand. It was learnt from the state command that the incident happened in the Araromi Street, Sango-Ota area at about 11:00 p.m. on Friday, reports [&he...
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