Nigerian Govt Lists 14 Reasons For Proposing N60,000 Minimum Wage The Federal Government and organised labour, led by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), failed to reach an agreement on a new national minimum wage on Friday, May 31. The tripartite committee has been engaged in negotiations over a new minimum wage since its inauguration in January. In an effort to expedite the process, the NLC and TUC had set a deadline for the committee to conclude negotiations by the end of May. However, this deadline passed without an agreement being reached. In response to…
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Edo Guber: INEC Speaks On Preferred Candidate Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured of a level playing field, saying the commission has no candidate in the election. This is even as the commission also assured that the election will not be postponed on account of flood that damaged some facilities at its headquarters in Benin City. The INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Benin yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting ahead of the election. “INEC has no candidate in this election and we are not a political…
Wike Begins Reconstruction Of School Where Pupils Learn Under Fallen Roof Barely three months after a report detailing the dilapidated state of the LEA primary school in Bagusa, Dei Dei community in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has started the rehabilitation of the school. The story with the headline, “Nigerian Pupils Lack Classrooms, Learn Under Fallen Roof In FCT Government School” with accompanying pictures, was published on March 7, 2024. A visit to the school had showed that students of the school who were in their teens were arranged under a makeshift structure built from…
Peter Obi Speaks On Killing Of 5 Nigerian Soldiers In Abia Peter Obi of the Labour Party has condemned the killing of five Nigerian soldiers by gunmen as the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) separatists enforced a sit-at-home order in Abia State on Thursday. “I condemn this atrocity in strong terms,” Mr Obi said in a statement on Friday, “and demand an immediate and thorough investigation into this crime in order to identify and punish the culprits.” The former Anambra governor described the continuous bloodshed and violence in the country as the failure of the Nigerian state. Mr Obi called…
Finally Breakthrough In Diabetes Treatment Information reaching Ibom Focus says that there’s Breakthrough In Diabetes Treatment Chinese researchers claim to have cured diabetes for the first time. The 59-year-old male patient underwent a groundbreaking stem cell transplant in 2021 and has not taken medicine since 2022. The experimental procedure entailed generating synthetic pancreatic cells, which are responsible for producing insulin and regulating blood sugar levels. The man lost nearly all of the activity of these cells, called islets, after developing type 2 diabetes 25 years ago. He needed numerous insulin injections each day to keep himself from going into a…
My Wife Abuses Me, Beat Me To Coma, Pulls My Maπhood, Man Cries Out For Help Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Man Cries Out For Help Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has adjourned for further hearing, the divorce suit brought before it by a man, Ige, against his wife, Bukola on the accounts of being a dullard, abusive, irresponsible and in the habit of fighting. Ige stated that his wife is a failure. According to him, she is academically poor and lacked the ability to learn a vocation. The plaintiff stated that she had failed WAEC…
NNPP Speaks On EFCC Probing Kwankwaso Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, in Kano State, Alhaji Hashimu Dungurawa has said detractors can’t stop the destiny of the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Dungurawa said those fighting Kwankwaso were behind reports that he’s being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Reports had it that the anti-graft agency was probing Kwankwaso over alleged N2.5 billion fraud. However, addressing journalists in Kano, the NNPP chieftain described the reports as lies, stressing that Kwankwaso is a man of integrity and capacity. He said: “We have been seeing this…
Yoruba, Igbo, Other Ethnic Nationalities Are Now Free To Exit From Nigeria, Says National Assembly Over Proposal Bill Every ethnic nationality and people in Nigeria will have an unconditional right to self-determination, the promoter of a trending draft “bill” seeking a return to the regional system of government, Dr Akin Fapohunda, has proposed. The private bill was titled, “A Bill for an Act to substitute the annexure to Decree 24 of 1999 with a new governance model for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” In the full proposal on Saturday, Fapohunda also suggested the scrapping of the presidential system of government,…
VIDEO: Drama As Aisha Yusuf Protest At Public Event Over National Anthem Nigerian activist and businesswoman Aisha Yesufu made a bold statement by refusing to stand for the newly adopted national anthem, “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” at a recent event In a recently released video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the businesswoman Aisha Yesufu was seen deliberately ignoring the new national anthem. Yesufu remained seated, flipping through a book and adjusting her glasses, while others stood in respect. This act of defiance comes after President Tinubu signed the new anthem into law on Wednesday, replacing the old national anthem. It…
States Banning Alcohol Won’t Get VAT On Beer Information reaching Ibom Focus says that States Banning Alcohol Won’t Get VAT On Beer A former Health Minister, Prof Isaac Adewole, has advocated fiscal federalism where states get funds commensurate to what they bring into the federation account. Adewole, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, was a guest on Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television on Friday. Adewole urged governors to allow the local government areas to function as an independent tier of government. He backed the persistent call for restructuring and resource…