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A dead end was reached between the Organized Labour, Federal Government and the Organized Private Sector over the payment of a new minimum wage. NLC and TUC walked out of the negotiations after the OPS proposed 54 thousand naira and 48 thousand naira were proposed by the Federal government. The umbrella of the […]
I was just an Innocent ND 1 student going to school when I was kidnapped along Police Staff College Road around 9 am yesterday. This was the statement of 17-year-old Basil Benjamin who was arrested for trying to bomb a commercial bank in Jos, Plateau state. Parading the suspect at the Police Command […]
Speaker of the House of Assembly in Niger State, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, has expressed his displeasure and withdrawal from the 100 orphan girls in Mariga LGA, whose marriages were scheduled for May 24. Expressing his displeasure towards how the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, would have gotten across to him first but she […]
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, has threatened to go on an indefinite strike if the federal government refuses to reintroduce the governing councils of universities across the country that were earlier dissolved. In May last year, the government had put a hold on the governing council, the board […]
A standing order was given by the speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly that 100 orphanage girls who lost their parents to bandits attack at Mariga LGA should be set for marriages. Speaker of the House, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, said it was a way of alleviating the suffering of these young girls […]
Late Thursday night bandits invaded a higher institution of learning in Kogi State kidnapping nine students. According to an eyewitness report, at about 9:00 pm on Thursday why students of the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara in Okene, were studying for their fort-coming exams when a group of bandits laid siege […]
It looks like another issue is sprouting up in the Ewu Kingdom a few days after the withdrawal of the Nigerian Army from the Okuama community. The residents of Akugbene in the Bomadi LGA sharing a boundary with Okuama and other communities around the riverine area, claimed that the returnees from Okuama attacked […]
A skit maker, Young C, who told his online followers he would be engaging in a stunt of being buried alive for 24 hours, has finally been exhumed yesterday. The content creator whose Tiktok handle has been permanently banned, was buried on Wednesday and was life-streaming the event also on his YouTube channel. […]
Following grievances from individuals, groups and cooperate organizations over the notice by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to deduct 0.5% from bank transactions, the House of Representatives have asked the apex bank to withdraw the circular. The bill which was sponsored by the house member representing Obio/Akpor Constituency, Kingsley Chinda said that the […]
Bordering on an alleged mismanagement of funds tuning to the sum of 2.7 billion naira, the Former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika and his daughter were arraigned before the Federal High Court today in Abuja. The petition of fraud was filed against the Former Minister by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on […]
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