•Governor Abiodun of Ogun State The Organised Labour in Ogun has rejected Governor Dapo Abiodun’s proposals to resolve the indefinite strike, which was triggered by the unrelated N82 billion contributory pension deductions and other issues. This was contained in a communique issued last night by the organised labour with signatories of 25 affi...
•Shehu Sani A former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, has criticised the proposal for the creation of additional 31 states in Nigeria. The proposal was made yesterday by the House of Representatives Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution, reports Channels TV. Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Benj...
•Senator Mohammed Sani The Senator representing Niger East senatorial district and chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Mohammed Sani has kicked against the establishment of State Police, saying it would be abused by the political class. Senator Sani said what is required is adequate funding for the existing police structure adding that resou...
•Flood Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked against the call to remove N300 billion from the Federation Account to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the flood disaster in Maiduguri, Borno State. The lawmakers expressed the objection during the debate on a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Hon. Amos ...
A man, Abdullahi Idris, has been arraigned in a Kano State Sharia court for allegedly setting his girlfriend, Sa’adatu Ibrahim, ablaze for turning down his marriage proposal. Idris, a resident of Rimi town in Sumaila LGA, was said to have dated Sa’adatu, a divorced woman, for seven days before she refused to accept his proposal […]
•Kayode Egbetokun (L) and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (R) Organisers of the planned #EndBadGovernance nationwide demonstrations slated for August have rejected the proposal by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun for confined protests. At a meeting with the organisers today, the IGP suggested confined protests in identified locations...
•Pro-Palestinian student protestors and activists applaud during a demonstration Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh today informed mediators Qatar and Egypt that his Palestinian militant group had accepted their Gaza truce proposal after nearly seven months of war. Haniyeh had spoken on the phone with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulr...
Organised labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has demanded N615,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. An impeccable source, who is an executive of organised labour, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told our correspondent that […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, yesterday, warned the federal government against heeding the advice of the World Bank to increase the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit popularly called petrol to N750/litre. The NLC’s Head of Information, Benson Upah, in an interview with our correspondent, said any further increase in the price of petrol would l...

