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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has dismissed the threat by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) that states may have to sack workers if forced to pay N30,000 as minimum wage. The union said the threat is not new and that workers are standing firm on the figure agreed by the tripartite negotiation team as the new national minimum wage. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday launched the Buhari Unity Band, an idea he said was meant to keep Nigeria united as it inched toward the 2019 general elections. The launch is coming three days to the November 18, 2018 date set by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the formal opening of campaigns for the 2019 general elections, in which …

Reconstruction work on on 109 roads in the three senatorial districts of Edo State has begun, fulfilling the promise made by the State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki. The contractors handling the projects were seen with their workers on site on Thursday when journalists went around Benin metropolis to inspect the road projects. The workers were seen with their equipment on …

Benin City – Following our report on the looming epidemic at Edo Police Command Headquarters in Benin City on Sunday November 11, 2018 due to sewage spillage, a palliative clean up has been carried out in the affected area as directed by the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Johnson Kokumo. Alltimepost.com had reported that the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department …

Labour leaders on Tuesday gave December as deadline for the full implementation of the N30,000 new national minimum wage. They also warned that any reduction in the N30,000 agreed by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage as contained in a report to President Muhammadu Buhari or any further delay in its passage could have negative consequences. According to …

Nigerian governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum have called for an emergency meeting where the issue of the minimum wage is expected to be discussed in Abuja tonight. It is expected that the meeting, which will be presided over by the Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, will take a definite stand on the amount the …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission on Wednesday said it would probe the allegation of corruption leveled against the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, during the recently concluded party primaries. The ICPC’s decision to investigate Oshiomhole came barely one week after he was quizzed by the Department of State Services over alleged anomalies in …

Indications have emerged that Alhaji Ahmed Sokoto the deputy governor of Sokoto State and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has resigned from his position. Sources said he resigned on Tuesday night, Sun reported. The resignation is long expected as he had fallen out politically since governor Aminu Tambuwal dumped APC for opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). …

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has blamed the Nigerian elite for the underdevelopment of the nation’s agricultural sector. Mr Ogbeh spoke at a town hall meeting in Dutse, Jigawa State, that focused on developments in the agriculture sector under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The meeting was attended by federal and state government officials, representatives of …

The House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, whose report last week allegedly indicted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has said he has questions to answer in the probe into an alleged N33bn fraud in a presidential intervention in the North-East crisis. While the committee had indicted Osinbajo over “emergency intervention of food security to the North-East” in June 2017, …