Abia State Government has stated that it will  commence fully payment of national minimum wage in October, noting that since July 2024 when it was approved by the Federal Government, the state government reached an agreement with the organised labour in the state to start the payment of the new wage of N70,000 this month. According to Prince Okey Kanu, the Abia State Commissioner for Information, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Umuahia said...

…Tinubu Issues Directives for Immediate Action The governors of the 19 northern states have called on the Federal Government to diversify energy sources following widespread power outages that have crippled 17 states in the region over the past two weeks. Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Gombe, and Katsina are among the worst-hit states, with others like Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, and Nasarawa also heavily affected. The power outages, attributed to vandalism of the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line...

Senator Shehu Sani has told President Bola Tinubu to consider the fact that Nigerians are suffering as he implements economic reforms, saying that the citizens shouldn’t die before the benefits of the reforms would be felt. The lawmaker who represented Kaduna Kaduna Central at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly spoke on Arise TV on Monday where he stated that the leaders’ should be seen to be making sacrifices as well. He said, “There’s...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has hailed former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the swift assent to the bill creating Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF). He also commended the National Assembly for passing the bill even as he urged that no child should be denied education and no woman should suffer from trafficking. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections stated this on Monday at the...

The combined and coordinated efforts of the Ghanaian Anti-Human Trafficking Police, Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO) Ghana, and the Nigerian High Commission in Accra has rescued seventeen young Nigerian girls trafficked to Ghana. Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the spokesman of NiDCOM, said the rescued girls were repatriated back to the country while five traffickers were equally arrested. This latest rescue operation brought the number of girls repatriated back to Nigeria from Ghana alone since July 2024 to 130. Balogun...