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Following the breakdown of negotiations on the new minimum wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Cross River has given the state government a seven-day ultimatum to act. A letter, signed by the State Chairman, Comrade Julius Nkoji, and Secretary ...

 Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has offered reason for the enlargement of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian leader had on Wednesday approved the increase in ...

The Minster of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has dissociated himself from the attack on the Abuja home of the Odilis in the aftermath of the nullification of the gubernatorial victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in ...

Two members of the House of Representatives, Francis Oghene Waive (Ughelli South/Udu federal constituency) and Ossai Nicholas Ossai (Ndokwa East/Ndokwa West/Ukwuani federal constituency) have disagreed over the establishment of two polytechnics in their constituencies. This followed after a Bill for ...

The Federal Government has been urged to institutionalise its social protection programmes for impact and sustainability. An international organisation, Save the Children, said government could leverage the gains of the current administration’s social nets for continuity. The Senior Social Protection ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned parents, guardians and corps members against failing victims to fake persons who promise deployments and redeployments to states. Raising the alarm over the activities of these individuals who operate through an online ...

The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has said no proposal had been made by the Federal Government to handover the power distribution companies (DisCos) nationwide to Siemens. Mamman had been quoted saying the Federal Government had submitted a proposal to ...

The Federal Government has appealed to the United States to rescind its decision on immigrant visa ban on Nigerians due to the age-long ties between the two nations. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the call while receiving the American ...

For allegedly failing to remit the five per cent of staff wage to the Nigerian Pension Commission (PENCOM) in the past five years, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts yesterday queried the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed ...

Chairman, Expert Advisory Panel of the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), Odein Ajumogobia, and leading industry experts have re-echoed the lingering challenges bedeviling the nation’s oil and gas sector, especially poor management of resources and regulatory loopholes. Speaking at the ...