•INEC Chairman, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the N40 billion earmarked for it in the 2025 budget. Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, rejected the estimate during budget defence before a joint committee session on INEC and Electoral Matters, at the National A...
•Asa Asika and Leona Adesanya Nigerian music star Davido’s long-time manager, Asa Asika has proposed to his girlfriend, Leona Adesanya. The proposal, which was captured in a viral video, shows the talent manager guiding Adesanya to the venue, where he then popped the question. The video also captured friends and well-wishers cheering in the ba...
•Kawu A bill seeking the creation of Tiga State from the current Kano State is ready for presentation at the Senate. It is titled, “Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (Creation of Tiga State) Bill, 2024″, reports Daily Trust. The bill is sponsored by Senator Kawu Sumaiman AbdulRahman (Kano South). Kano State has...
•NLC strike The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has proposed the sum of Eight hundred and fifty thousand Naira as the new minimum wage for workers in the South-South geopolitical zone. Chairman of NLC, Akwa Ibom State Council, Comrade Sunny James presented the position of the zone today in Uyo, the state capital during the zonal […]
•NLC strike The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) ,FCT chapter, has proposed N709,000 as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The NLC FCT Chairman, Dr Stephen Knabayi, made the submission at the North Central Zonal Public Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage today in Abuja, reports NAN. President Bola Tinubu...
•Labour strike The South-East chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have proposed N540,000 and N447,000 respectively as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The organised labour of NLC and TUC made the proposal during the South-East Zonal Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Mi...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today passed for second reading a bill seeking to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act to provide for single non-renewal term of six years for the governor and the deputy governors of the apex bank. The bill, sponsored by Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos) and all the 41 […]
•Nigerian workers Ahead of negotiation on the new national minimum wage, the Organised Labour has proposed a Living Wage of $300 for Nigerian workers. It argued that the current minimum wage of N30,000 has since been eroded by the high exchange rate coupled with the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy which has translated into the […]

