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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to abolish age barrier in government employment. This indicates that job seekers are one step closer to gaining employment in Federal Government Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs) without discrimination of age. The bill, with the long title “Bill for an Act to Eradicate the Age Discrimination against …

The Federal Government said on Wednesday the N30,000 minimum wage proposal contained in the report of the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government was still a recommendation and had not been approved. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, said President Muhammadu Buhari would still …

  Benin – Twenty-one-year old boy, Akpobome Samuel who reportedly strangled his mother and had multiple sex with her corpse at Ologbo Community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State has revealed more details about why he committed the horrible act. The suspect said that he killed his mother, Mrs. Christiana Ighoyivwi, 58, on October 29, 2018 and copulated …

The Senate on Wednesday approved that half of the N242 billion budgeted for the 2019 election be removed from the 2018 budget of 30 federal agencies. Presenting a motion on Wednesday, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Danjuma Goje, said the election could not be funded entirely from the service wide votes as earlier approved. The motion, co-sponsored …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted to implement the ‘new’ minimum wage of N30, 000 the tripartite committee recently pushed forward to the federal government. In a statement issued by his media office, the presidential hopeful said Mr Buhari, who is known for ‘flip-flopping’ may not …

The Presidency on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage was misinterpreted by the media. Mr Buhari had received the highly anticipated report from the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple, on Tuesday. A presidential source, who preferred not to be named, said the president did not …

  Ayogwiri – Twenty three-year old man has allegedly beheaded a carpenter in Ayogwiri Community in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The victim, Atogwe Asilemhe, 46, it was learnt, was on his way to work at site when the suspect, Odion Jimoh attacked him with a cutlass and severed his head in the process. The incident which …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday endorsed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. He said this while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The report was submitted by the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple. Buhari has also promised to send a bill to the National Assembly to effect …

Four members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives have announced their defection from the party. They are Mr Abiodun Awoleye-Dada, who has moved to the Accord party; Mr Samuel Segun-Williams, who has moved to the Labour Party; and Mr Lawan Hassan-Anka, who has joined the Peoples Democratic Party. The fourth member, Mr Lam Adesina, has …

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has alleged that he, his wife and son escaped an assassination attempt at about 4am on Tuesday. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Uche Anichukwu, said the armed men evaded the security at Ekweremadu’s Apo Legislative Quarters, Abuja residence to gain entry into his house. The statement partly …