•National power grid. Amid the incessant national grid collapses that have continued to throw the country into darkness for days, some states have intensified push for independent power plants for a stable and affordable power supply. It was gathered that while some states have initiated the power generation processes, others have reached adva...
•Nigerian debt Sub-national governments continued to grapple with a persistent reliance on borrowing to finance their budgets in 2023, as the total debt stock of the 36 states surged by 38.1%, from N7.25tn in 2022 to N10.01tn. BudgIT’s 2024 State of States report released yesterday revealed that the debt growth was partly driven by a […...
•Governors Not less than 20 states have either started paying the new minimum wage or will commence payment from this week. After negotiations by the government, the Organised Private Sector and the Labour Centres, the minimum wage was raised from N30,000 to N70,000, reports The Nation. The negotiations, spanning many weeks, produced an agreem...
•Tinubu and Ajaero As the October deadline approaches, the tension surrounding minimum wage policies in Nigeria is reaching a fever pitch. With a significant number of states poised at a crossroad, the impending government intervention promises to reshape the landscape of labour rights and economic equity across the nation. The stakes are high...
•Gov Sanwo-Olu, Ganduje and Gov Aiyedatiwa in Akure yesterday Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has declared that the ruling party will capture the SouthWest by winning the November 16 off-cycle governorship election in Ondo State. Ganduje declared this when he led members of the National Working...
•Naira notes The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N1.298 trillion among the Federal Government, State Governments, and Local Government Councils from the September 2024 Federation Account revenues. In a statement issued last night, Mr. Bawa Mokwa, Director of Press and Public Relations at the Office of the A...
•Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe) In July 2024, President Bola Tinubu approved an increase in the minimum wage for Nigerian workers from N30,000 to N70,000, reports The PUNCH. However, the implementation across states has been gradual, with some still yet to adopt the new minimum wage....
•Mpox The Mpox situation report obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said Mpox has spread to 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory across 63 local government areas in the country. According to the report, 94 confirmed cases have been reported out of the 1,297 suspected cases recorded so far from […]...
Local government workers in some of the states yet to conduct council elections by yesterday are now living in fear of the possible suspension of allocation to their councils from the federation account. The Supreme Court had in a recent ruling granted the local government financial autonomy and specifically ordered that the councils’ share of...
•Dollar notes Foreign investors bypassed 26 states as Nigeria’s capital importation reached $2.60 billion in the second quarter of 2024, representing a robust increase of 152.81 per cent year-on-year compared to $1.03bn in Q2 2023. This was revealed in the latest capital importation report for the second quarter of 2024, released by the Nation...
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