JUST IN: Labour Reject New FG’s Minimum Wage Offer As Nigerian Govt Revealed The Organized labour on Wednesday stormed out of the minimum wage committee meeting with the Federal Government over the later’s offer of N48,000 new wage. Recall that the organized labour had made a demand of N615,000 as the new minimum wage and had given the government up till May 31 to conclude negotiations on new living wage. The Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage resumed negotiations on Wednesday. It was informed that representatives of the organized labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade…
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BREAKING: Working Week To Start From Sunday – FG Proposes Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Working Week To Start From Sunday Iranian legislators have voted to change the country’s working week to start on Sunday. The Iranian Parliament approved a bill enacting the change on Wednesday, local media reported. The new law also includes a reduction in the regular working week from 44 to 40 hours. The main aim of the measure is to improve the country’s economic relations with the rest of the world. Iran’s working week currently begins on Saturday, while Friday – as in many other…
Nigerian Hospital Reject Dead Bodies Over High Cost Of Diesel The collapsed electricity transmission towers have caused a blackout in the six Northeast Nigerian states. Consequently, this has taken its toll on lives and businesses in the region. It report that the blackout, coupled with the high cost of diesel, has made morgues moribund. SaharaReporters observed that hospital morgues in Yola, the Adamawa State capital have been emitting an awful stench, causing health hazards for staff members, patients and host communities. An employee of a hospital with a large morgue with several lockers or coolers who spoke to our correspondent…
JUST IN: Massive Resignations Rock Fubara’s Cabinet Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Massive Resignations Rock Fubara’s Cabinet In One Day Two more Rivers State commissioners loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have dumped the State Executive Council. The Commissioner for Social Welfare, Inime Aguma and Jacobson Nbina, Commissioner for Transport, have all tendered their resignation letters to the state government. Their resignations were contained in separate letters addressed to the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, through the Office of the Secretary to the Rivers State Government As at the time of filing this report, about…
BREAKING: Tinubu Directs Airports To Start Collecting Tolls The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has announced that all the users of federal airports across the country must start paying tolls at airport gates. This was part of the approvals given by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the end of its meeting held in Abuja on Monday and Tuesday. The Special Adviser Information and Strategy to President Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, who made this known in a list of approvals granted by FEC said that no one, including the President and the Vice President was exempted from the federal airports gates…
BREAKING: APC Fires Top Senator The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has suspended a serving senator, Jimoh Ibrahim, for his alleged anti-party activities. Senator Ibrahim represents Ondo South Senatorial District. In the suspension letter on Wednesday, 16 members of the APC Executive Committee of Igbotako Ward 11 in Okitipupa Local Goverment Area of Ondo State, carried out his suspension. The notice was signed by ward executive members including Bakere Usuf, Tore Obwoselu, Oloyinmi Idowu, Borewaye Louyomi, Oladipupo Bose, Alkimbobola Seyi, Lawal-Babatunde, Aritawe-Ademole, Akinkuoju Olarewaju and Fabioye Ajoke The notice read, “We, the members of the APC Executive…
BREAKING: Contractor Writes Fubara, Begs For Payment Of Debt Owed Wike’s Administration A construction firm, HADO Nigeria Limited that executed some roads projects in 2016 and 2017 under the administration of former Governor Nyesom Wike without payment has written the incumbent Governor Siminalayi Fubara to pay its money. In the letter to the governor on Wednesday, dated March 7 and received at the office of the governor on May 2, 2024, the company said that the unpaid but completed contract amount to N467,073,921.16k which it said was done in two batches. The letter with Ref: HNL-ADM-CONT-2024-L530 and signed by one…
BREAKING: Another Wike Loyalist Resigns From Fubara’s Cabinet The Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Professor Chinedu Mmon, who is a loyalist of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, has resigned from the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Mmon is the third reappointed Commissioner to tender his resignation after the former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor and former Commissioner for Finance, Hon. Isaac Kamalu, resigned their appointments few weeks ago. Both Adangor and Kamalu resigned after Fubara directed that they should be redeployed to the Ministry of Special Duties (Governor’s Office) and Ministry…
Hisbah Lands In Trouble For Arresting TV Journalist Over Facebook Post Nigerians on X platform (formerly Twitter) have lambasted the Islamic police in Northern Nigeria, Hisbah for arresting a Trust TV journalist, Jamil Mabai, in Katsina State. An X user, @Edrees4P, who revealed Mabai’s arrest on Wednesday said that the journalist was arrested over his post on Facebook where he criticised the unjust detention and human rights violations against youths in the state. “Hisbah in Katsina arrested a journalist @jaymb000 over his post on Facebook criticising their unjust detainment and human rights violations against youth in the state. “Jamilu is…
BREAKING: Worshippers Dies As Man Bomb Nigerian Mosque One of the worshippers affected by the incident at a mosque in Laraba Abasawa area of Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano is dead. AIG Umar Mamman Sanda disclosed this when he led a delegation of security personnel, including the Commissioner of Police in the State and the Director of Department of State Services (DSS) to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, where the injured are being treated. He said, “What happened is not associated with any act of terrorism but rather, it was a skirmish that aroused as a result of…