Govs should earn minimum wage to understand workers’ pain — Soludo

13 Jun 2024

Charles Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, stated on Wednesday that in order to represent the current state of affairs in Nigeria, governors and other elected officials ought to be paid the minimum wage. He said contrary to the flamboyant lifestyles portrayed by governors and elected officials, the country was facing a dire financial crisis. […]

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Labour rejects FG’s N62,000 minimum wage offer, may resume strike on Tuesday

10 Jun 2024

According to organized labor, the minimum wage for workers must not be N62,000 or N100,000. Chris Onyeka, assistant general secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), stated the union will not negotiate a “starvation wage” during a Monday appearance on Channels Television’s “Morning Brief.” A week-long nationwide strike was “relaxed” on June 4 by the […]

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Youths protest in Ondo over EFCC raid, and the arrest of 127

10 Jun 2024

A group of young people protested against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission agents’ raid on two nightclubs on Monday in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, which resulted in the arrest of 127 individuals. On Saturday, commission employees barged into nightclubs and took approximately 127 young people into custody on suspicion of engaging in […]

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Breaking News: Reps seek 6-year tenure for president, rotation among zones

10 Jun 2024

Several members of the House of Representatives are attempting to make changes to the 1999 Constitution to allow for the Presidency to be rotated among the nation’s six geopolitical zones. They also want an amendment to the Constitution to provide for a single tenure of six years for the President and Governors of the Federal […]

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Minimum Wage: FG offers N62K, labour requests N250K

09 Jun 2024

The Federal Government has increased its offer for a new national minimum wage to ₦62,000, while organized labour has reduced its demand from ₦494,000 to ₦250,000. This development follows the submission of the cost implications of the new minimum wage by the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to President Bola Tinubu. A source confirmed this […]

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LASU overall best student gets N10M from Gov. Sanwo-Olu

09 Jun 2024

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu offers the sum of N10M to be the best-graduating student at the 27th convocation ceremony of Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday. The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Sanwo-Olu on New Media, Jubril Gawat, shared this information in a post on X, mentioning that the governor arrived at the university at 12:38 […]

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SS3 students crash car while celebrating graduation

09 Jun 2024

The graduation celebration of a group of overzealous SS3 students ends in an accident after running into a tree, causing severe damage to the car. A video making the rounds on social media captured the joy in the hearts of some high school graduates who packed themselves in a car. In the video, they could […]

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Minimum wage: Don’t plunge nation into monumental crisis, Labour tells govs

08 Jun 2024

Organised Labour has rejected claims by state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, that they cannot afford N60,000 minimum wage, urging the governors not to plunge the country into a monumental crisis. Speaking on behalf of Labour, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, accused the governors of lying with their resources, contending […]

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Drug reaction caused Mohbad’s death, autopsy reveals

08 Jun 2024

Almost a year after his death, the autopsy conducted on the body of the Nigerian rapper and singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has finally revealed the possible cause of his death. The report, which went viral on the internet yesterday, said though the cause of the singer’s death could not be ascertained, there […]

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