Minimum Wage: Tinubu, Labour Talks Postponed Until Next Week

12 Jul 2024

President Bola Tinubu’s talks with the Organised Labour on the minimum wage were postponed until next week to allow for more consultation with all stakeholders. At around 2:00 pm, the leaders of organized labor, led by Festus Osifo, the president of the Trade Union Congress, and Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, […]

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Tinubu names National Theatre after Wole Soyinka

12 Jul 2024

The National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, has been named in honor of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka by President Bola Tinubu. This was revealed by Tinubu in a letter he wrote to honor the legendary man on the occasion of his 90th birthday. More information later…

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Appeal Court upholds Daddy Freeze’s N5m adultery fine

12 Jul 2024

The fine levied against well-known Nigerian on-air personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, for adultery has been upheld by the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt. A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on February 18, 2021, ordered Daddy Freeze to pay the sum of N5m for committing adultery with […]

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Ex-Accountant General pleads for more time to return N1.6 billion in embezzled money.

11 Jul 2024

On Wednesday, July 10, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, a former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), pleaded with an Abuja Federal High Court to extend his deadline for completing the return of public funds that he and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, are accused of embezzling. Nwabuoku and Nweke, a former Deputy Director in the Ministry of Defence, […]

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Saleh Mamman, former power minister, collapses in court over alleged N33 billion fraud.

11 Jul 2024

Saleh Mamman, a former minister of power, on Thursday, July 11. collapsed outside the courtroom at a Federal High Court, Abuja. Mamman, whose plea was scheduled for Thursday morning, reportedly passed out outside the courtroom prior to the case being called. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, told Justice James Omotosho soon after he […]

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Doctors at Ojukwu Varsity threaten to go on strike due to unfavorable working conditions.

09 Jul 2024

Residents at Anambra State’s Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) in Awka have threatened to go on strike due to poor working conditions and unpaid allowances. After a meeting and the 21-working-day ultimatum to the state government expired, Dr. Onyebuchi Ichoku, the president of the hospital’s Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), announced the decision. […]

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President Tinubu cancels 0.5% cybersecurity levy

09 Jul 2024

President Bola Tinubu has officially halted the imminent launch of the 0.5 percent levy on the value of all electronic transactions, responding to public criticism. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had announced the introduction of the cybersecurity levy on May 6, instructing banks, mobile money operators, and payment service providers to begin implementation within […]

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Poverty alleviation: Court orders Buhari’s minister to explain N729bn disbursement

08 Jul 2024

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has directed the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk, to give details of how N729bn allegedly disbursed to 24.3 million poor Nigerians was carried out. The court ruled that the ex-minister should provide a list of all the beneficiaries, […]

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NLC, TUC React As Federal Govt Offers ₦48,000 As New Minimum Wage

08 Jul 2024

Organized labour has described the ₦48,000 proposed new minimum wage by the federal government as an insult to the sensibility of Nigerian workers. The labour leaders outrightly rejected the offer, describing it as retrogressive. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) made this known in a joint statement signed by NLC […]

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