The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah has announced cash awards for the state workers and an increase in the number of indigent persons to be enrolled in the state’s social register. Speaking to newsmen and the Labour leaders on Wednesday at the Government House, the Governor said his administration’s focus is on the welfare of her citizens so as to achieve a zero percent poverty headcount index by 2031; As a palliative to...

For allegedly traveling to Rwanda without seeking permission from the state executive or legislative, the Jigawa State House of Assembly has suspended three local government council chairmen. The suspended chairmen are Hon Mubarak Ahmed of Birniwa LGA, Hon Rufai Sunusi of Gumel LGA local, and Hon Umar Baffa of Yankwashi LGA. The Chairman House Committee on Local Government Affairs, Hon Aminu Zakari Tsubut, said the House moved a motion for the suspension of the affected...

Public and private sector workers in Nigeria returned to their various workplaces on Thursday after a largely successful two-day industrial action following directives from the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC. Workplaces were shut down across Nigeria’s 36 states and the capital city Abuja on Tuesday and Wednesday. While the strike was observed strictly in some states, it wasn’t in others. The NLC and TUC suspended the strike...

…Warn losers against blackmailing commission Indigenes of Kogi State, on Wednesday, marched, in their numbers to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, to declare their confidence in the umpire and also affirm support for the Governor-elect, Usman Ododo. The Kogites, also warned mischief makers in the state, under the guise of opposition parties, to desist from blackmailing the Commission, stressing that the good people of Kogi State “stand by the...

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that it will review the Appeal Court judgment which upheld the judgment of the tribunal in favour of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) A press statement on Wednesday signed by Hon. Hakeem Amode, the state Publicity Secretary of the party noted that   it is in the process of reviewing the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos,...

Traditional rulers in Kogi State have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and other stakeholders for the peaceful conduct of the Saturday, November 11 governorship election in the state. The royal fathers congratulated the governor-elect, Usman Ododo and affirmed the traditional institutions’ commitment to continued collaboration with the Kogi State Government to enhance the unity and development achieved under the current administration. The remarks were made when they paid a congratulatory visit...

The Federal government on Wednesday through the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, begged the organised labour to call off their nationwide strike which began on Tuesday. It will be recalled that the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) embarked on the strike on Tuesday to protest against the attack on the NLC president, Joe Ajaero, in Imo State on 1 November. Ribadu, in a statement by the Head of Strategic...