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Despite the delay in the negotiation of consequential adjustment, the take-off date for the implementation of the new minimum wage is April 18, 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill into law, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris ...

The Lagos State government has declared a state of emergency on various dilapidated highways and carriage roads within the State; as the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed that massive rehabilitation works on critical roads and highways across the State ...

Accountant General (AG) of Nasarawa State, Yakubu Zakka, has sought a reduction in the cost of governance to enable the state to pay salaries, gratuities, pensions and other workers’ benefits. He made the call in an interview with newsmen in ...

The Aggah Community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Council Area of Rivers State has signed an agreement with ENI, parent company of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to end perennial flooding in the area. Aggah, a host community to NAOC has been ...

Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has directed Accountant General of the state, Head of Service (HOS) and the Commissioner for Finance to begin payment of the retirees from Thursday, October 17, 2019. He gave the directive at a one-day Pensions ...

A member of the House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions, Henry Nwawuba, has advocated an upward review of the N46 billion budgeted for health in the 2020 Appropriation Bill by at least 15 per cent, as required by international ...

The South East Revival Group (SERG) has said attempt to reintroduce toll gates in the nation’s highways would be counterproductive, describing Federal Government’s plan to bring back the tollgates, as insensitive to the plight of Nigerians, especially southeasterners. The group said ...

A former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi has decried over monetisation in Nigeria, saying Nigerian workers should hold government accountable rather than always asking for money. Makarfi, who is a member of Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), stated this ...

The Federal Government has dismissed a video clip making the rounds that the Nigerian Embassy in Cotonou, Benin Republic had been attacked. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinand Nwonye, refuted the claim yesterday in a statement in ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Abdullahi Adamu Candido, imploring him to “urgently withdraw and revoke the bill/edict for the unconstitutional and illegal payment of life pensions to former ...