The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have threatened to go on a nationwide strike in two weeks if the government fails to take decisive action to alleviate the economic hardship rocking the country. The workers’ union lamented the “massive hardship” the removal of the petrol subsidy and the spiralling inflation linked to the crash of the Nigerian currency, the naira, against the United States dollar has wrought. They also accused...

…Tells the president to reshuffle cabinet Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Muritala Audu has asked President Bola Tinubu to consider a strategic reshuffling of the cabinet to tackle rising insecurity. He urged the President to consider appointing the immediate past Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello as defence minister. Audu, who is the Aare Atunluse Omoluwabi Oodua Worldwide, in a statement on Thursday said that the immediate past Kogi governor has some ingenuity...

The National Assembly has been tasked to expedite action and ensure the passage of the whistleblower bill enacted in 2016, as a safe alternative for exposing dishonest dealings. Umar Yakubu, Executive Director of, the Center for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch (CeFTIW) made the call at the presentation of Civil Society’s Monitoring Mechanism for Nigeria’s Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC, noted that the law has become more urgent following the raging...

The Senate is probing over N100 billion Presidential Compressed Natural Gas (PCNG) projects, as such the Senate Committee on Gas has written to Finance Minister Wale Edu to provide one-week details of the award and disbursement of over N100 billion to companies engaged in handling the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas (PCNG) project, allegedly done in breach of the Public Procurement Act 2017. The request follows a fresh plan by the PCNG to release another N130...

The Enugu State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill for a Law to establish the Enugu State Geographic Information System Service and for connected purposes (HB.2), 2024. Iloabuchi Aniagu, Minority leader and member representing Nkanu West constituency in his presentation said the bill seeks to computerize information on lands in the state, put an end to anomalies in the Ministry of lands and the negative narratives of sale and resale of lands without...

Opunabo Inko-Tariah, former Special Adviser to the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said that there is no peace in Rivers State, stressing that the former Rivers Governor is not sincere with the claim. It will be recalled that a few days ago Wike told journalists in an interview that peace had returned to Rivers State and that the three arms of government are working independently and harmoniously. Inko-Tariah, in an interview on Tuesday...