•Chelsea captain, James Reece Mauricio Pochettino says Chelsea’s medical and coaching staff are trying to work out why the club have been so badly plagued by injuries, with as many as 14 players likely to be missing for tomorrow’s visit of Tottenham. Defenders Thiago Silva and Axel Disasi are the latest additions to the list […]
Buffeted by staggering food inflation, rising cost of living, biting fuel scarcity, poor electricity supply and widespread insecurity, Nigerian workers have said they have scant reasons to celebrate May 1 fondly known as Workers’ Day. The federal government has declared today a work free day to commemorate the workers’ day, reports Daily Sun. ...
The depreciation of the naira has caused the country’s foreign loans to balloon. Nigeria’s external debt stock (debt owed to foreign entities) has increased by N28tn due to the devaluation of the Nigerian naira against the United States dollar, findings reveal. According to the latest debt profile data published by the Debt Management Office, ...
•Emefiele A Delta State-based group, the Agbor Stakeholders Forum, ASF, has said that the prevailing economic woes in the country, arising from the economic policies of the federal government, have made a saint and hero out of former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, instead of the ‘villain’ he is being painted to be by the […]...
There is growing restiveness among the staff of the federal civil service, ministries, departments and agencies, and MDAs, over unpaid January salaries. The worker’s situation is compounded by the fact that they also owed a backlog of N35,000 in wage awards, reports Vanguard. It was gathered that non-payment of the January salary to core civil...