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 ...
Read More »Fayemi begs workers to drop minimum wage strike, insists increase not total pay review
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has appealed to workers to shelve their planned nation-wide strike to protest against non-implementation of the new national minimum wage, saying such action would amount to an effort in futility. Fayemi, who is also chairman ...
Read More »VC orders immediate suspension of student for alleged cultism
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Professor Zana Akpagu, has approved the immediate suspension of one Obio, Godswill Okon of the Department of Physical Oceanography over alleged cult activities. Obio, who is a fourth-year student with registration ...
Read More »Lawyer cautions Ayade against retrenchment, fresh employment in C’River
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ntufam Mba Ekpezu Ukweni, has cautioned Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade against employing fresh workers and retrenchment of employees in the state as polling agents. The governor threatened to sack some workers whom ...
Read More »Tokarczuk, Handke win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature
Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk, and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2019 and 2018 as the prize was not awarded last year. Olga Tokarczuk, who was 10/1 and Peter Handke, 20/1, upset bookmakers’ prediction ...
Read More »A’Ibom IPAC cautions members against issuing unofficial statements
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Akwa Ibom State chapter, has expressed disappointment over a statement credited to its Publicity Secretary, Reverend Aniebet Emmanuel that the council has a pending case of alleged financial misappropriation. It, therefore, cautioned its members against ...
Read More »EFCC arrests 18 INEC officers, recovers N65m from Zamfara office
Yakubu, Bello, Wada seek violence-free Kogi guber election The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in Zamfara State and recovered N65.5m. A statement issued in in ...
Read More »NECA urges labour to shelve strike over implementation of minimum wage as FG’s personnel cost hits N3.08tr
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has urged organised labour to shelve its planned October 16, 2019 nationwide strike over the non-implementation of minimum wage for grade levels seven to 17. Speaking when he visited the Minister of Labour and ...
Read More »Kaduna CAN flays state government’s inability to stop kidnappings, banditry
The Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has blamed the state government for its inability to arrest banditry and kidnapping, following the abduction of Principal of Government Technical College, Francis Maji, in Kajuru. Its Chairman, Reverend Joseph ...
Read More »Kefas sues El-Rufai, others for N500m over rights violation, unlawful detention
After spending 143 days in detention, human rights activist and journalist, Steven Kefas, has filed an N500 million suit against Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu and four others over alleged infringement on his ...
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