A 24-year-old lady Sheba Simon was stabbed with a knife by a phone snatcher in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital near Damaturu City College in Malali Byepass around 9:30pm on Saturday, April 27, 2024. It was learned that the victim was chatting with her phone after she dropped from a commercial tricycle and was trekking home from work when the attacker stabbed her with a knife and fled with her cell phone, leaving her in a...
…Says Current Wage Can’t Meet Basic Needs The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is demanding a significant increase in the national minimum wage to ₦615,000, arguing that the current minimum wage of ₦30,000, set in 2019, is no longer enough to afford basic necessities due to Nigeria’s rising cost of living. On 1st May 2024, the national Workers’ Day, NLC President Joe Ajaero announced the demand at a televised interview. The NLC is urging the federal...
Not less than 16 persons lost their lives in a fatal motor accident on Wednesday at about 5:20 p.m. at Ekwegbe, along Enugu/Opi/Nsukka Road in Enugu State; fourteen males (14) and two (2) females burnt beyond recognition. In a bulletin signed by the Police Public Relations Officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the Enugu State Police Command calls on persons with useful information as regards tracing the victims’ families to come forth. Preliminary investigation by the Police...
…Says Labour Played Significant Role In Govt’s Efforts To Rescue Economy President Bola Tinubu has lauded the Nigerian workers for their hard Work in ensuring the prosperity and stability of the nation. The President stated this on Thursday at the workers May Day celebration rally in Abuja where he was represented by the Vice President, Kassim Shettima. According to the President, the workers contributed immensely in ensuring the government’s efforts at rescuing the economy. Tinubu...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that the impact of the 25 and 35 percent range of increase in salaries announced by President Bola Tinubu for Federal civil servants will be eroded by rising inflation. It will be recalled that the Federal Government has approved an increase in salaries across various salary structures in a move aimed at boosting the welfare of civil servants. The increase, ranging between 25% and 35%, will apply to...
…Threaten To Petition National Human Rights Commission Scores of Kogi youths trooped out in Abuja, on May Day in a solidarity walk to protest the handling of the much-publicized allegations of corruption against the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), especially as regards the involvement of the former Governor’s children. The youths condemned what they described as the systematic violation of the constitutional rights of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reassured Nigerian workers of the government’s commitment to improving their welfare. While congratulating the workers on the occasion of May Day celebration, the party in a press statement signed on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, Esq, applauded the resilience, sacrifice, diligence and patriotism of Nigerian workers and celebrated their invaluable contributions to the building and sustenance of the nation’s economic life. The statement read, “Nigerian workers...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commended Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State for being the first Governor in the country to pay the new hazard allowance and the newly adjusted Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) to resident doctors. NARD, in a letter co-signed by its President, Dr Dele Olaitan and Dr. Anaduaka Obinna, and dated June 1, 2024, the association noted that the payment of the hazard allowance and adjusted CONMESS would...
The Depot Chairmen Forum of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has restated that NNPC remained the exclusive importer of PMS products and refuted accusations of hoarding of PMS products leveled against its members. In a communiqué released after its recent gathering, the IPMAN depot chairmen forum emphasized that the scarcity of PMS was not a result of any actions by IPMAN or its members but rather attributed it solely to the Nigeria National...
No fewer than 6,000 Nigerian refugees from Chad and Cameroon would be repatriated. Tijani Ahmed, Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the end of a Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on the voluntary repatriation of Nigerian refugees. Ahmed said 6,000 people would be returned from Chad while the number to be repatriated from Cameroon would be determined before the start...
