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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured the state’s new Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Olusegun Odumosun of support, leveraging the newly established Edo State Security Architecture. Obaseki said the new security architecture was established to guarantee well-coordinated policing that will benefit from input from relevant stakeholders, especially local communities, in the state. The State Chief Executive Officer gave …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has issued a noticed to all its structures and organs to commence mobilization for mass action against the federal government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics. This was contained in a statement signed by the association’s president, Danielson Akpan, on Sunday. The ASUU commenced a nationwide …

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the contract for the refurbishment of 230 primary schools across the state, to provide for conducive learning environment for pupils in the schools. Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said this in Benin City, the state capital on Wednesday. He noted that the state …

The Federal Government has said that the Technical Committee announced by President Muhammadu Buhari to be set up on the new Minimum Wage was not to review the report of the Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee. Besides, the government team on the new minimum wage has invited leadership of the organized labour for a meeting on Friday January 4, 2019, to …

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, to investigate the shooting incident at Ring Road, Benin City, on New Year Day, which reportedly claimed one life. In a statement, Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy to the governor, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said “the governor has asked the Police …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has pledged commitment to workers welfare while appealing to the Federal Government to urgently transmit the bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, made the appeal in a New Year message on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, 2018 remains one of the most traumatic for workers …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has promised to sustain investment in critical sectors of the state; education, infrastructure, security and job creation initiatives to retain his administration’s positive growth trajectory. Obaseki, who made the pledge in his New Year Message which was broadcast on television and radio stations in the state, said that after two years in the saddle, …

The N30,000 minimum wage demand of labour unions is “neither realistic nor sustainable,” the Nigeria Governors Forum has said. Instead, the NGF said, states should pay a minimum wage of N22,500 but any governor who can pay more than this is free to do so. The forum also said insinuations by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that its members were …

Alhaji  Bala Shagari, eldest son of late President Shehu Shagari has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari over his condolence visit to the family in Sokoto State, even as he noted that his father told them that he had pardoned everybody before his death. According to him, his father had no grudge against Buhari or anyone because Shagari “told us …

The Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, has unveiled the Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary Centre for Natural Product Research (ICCNPR), a research arm of the institution that will seek innovative ways of providing solutions to society’s problems with the use of natural products. The unveiling and groundbreaking ceremony of the center held recently at the school’s premises in Usen, near Benin …