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Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), today (Monday), began the issuance of the new passport booklet with 10-year validity period at the agency’s Headquarters, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari had on January 15, 2019, launched the enhanced polycarbonate passport booklet, which is embedded with the National Identity Number. Fielding questions from journalists, The NIS Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James, said the new …

At least 1.4 billion Facebook members have been predicted to die before 2100, as a result of which dead members on the social media platform could outnumber the living members by 2070, according to research report published by the Vanguard. A new analysis conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (part of the University of Oxford, England) said  the …

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in collaboration with  Edo State Government has distributed relief materials to victims of 2018 flood disaster caused by the surge of the River Niger in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. The materials distributed include 75 sewing machines, 60 grinding machines, 42 hair dryers and 75 fishing nets. L-R: Senior Special …

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration will sustain ongoing reforms which prioritize occupational safety and health in workplaces as part of efforts to groom a highly-motivated workforce. The governor stated this in commemoration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, celebrated on April 28 each year, by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to promote safe, …

With the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari to the new minimum wage of N30,000, there is no other hurdle barring or delaying state governments, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) from implementing the new pay structure, the Federal Government clarified last night. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who made the clarification told Sunday Vanguard …

A non governmental organization, Good Leadership and Peace Advocates of Nigeria, GOLEPAN, weekend, stated that the inability of the Nigeria Police to exercise discretion as to which case should be charged to court and limited sponsorship of Pro Bono lawyers by the Federal government were some of the factors responsible for Prisons congestion in the country. It further decried the …

•Facts •Fiction •Myth If there is anything, or a combination of things, that is fanning the embers of doubt about the credibility of the 2019 general elections, it is to be located in the response of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Perhaps, whether owing …

Organised labour on Thursday warned that no state chapter of labour movement would accept any renegotiation for downward review of the already signed minimum wage law of N30,000 from any state governor. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the National President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, made the declaration in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, …

The implementation of the new National Minimum Wage bill signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari has been hit by some bottlenecks, Saturday PUNCH can reveal. Officials of some state governments told Saturday PUNCH that they had yet to receive the documents containing the implementation guidelines from the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, almost 10 days after the wage bill was …

Hundreds of additional policemen will be needed to implement and sustain the new eight-hour  shift  work ordered by acting Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, according to  ex-police chiefs  Solomon Arase, Adedayo Adeoye and Emmanuel Ojukwu. Amid rising security concerns  in the country, Adamu  on Thursday  stopped  the current 12-hour, two-shift work arrangement  in the  force, ordering a reversal to the …