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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 …

…blames Kaduna state government for increasing bloodletting ABUJA – After a cursory assessment of the state of affairs in the Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari ‘s led administration, saying there is no indication that the country has a substantive Commander-in-Chief. This is even as the party bemoaned what it called worsening …

The Benin Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association on Thursday barred its members from handling cases of kidnapping. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the branch made this known in a communiqué signed by its chairman, Mr. Collins Ogiegbaen; and Secretary, Mr. Pius Oiwoh, on Thursday in Benin. The association said it was withdrawing its services from all suspects whose offences …

A new prison facility built by Imo State Government along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, to accommodate no fewer than 3,000 inmates, will soon be ready for occupation. The new facility, which will replace the old one with a carrying capacity of about 500, was built in Owerri, by the colonial masters in 1904. Speaking, when he played host to the …

ABUJA- President Muhammadu Buhari will dissolve his cabinet five days to the end of the administration, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed, has said. The Minister stated this while briefing journalists at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the Council Chamber Presidential Villa, …

… threatens to file for contempt against  INEC chairman The Atiku-Obi legal team has condemned the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to produce polling documents from the February the 23rd, 2019 presidential elections even after the Court of Appeal granted an order directing the commission to allow them access. A member of the team, Mr Silas Onu, in …

The Senate has invited the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, for a briefing over the spate of kidnappings across Nigeria. The lawmakers said the invitation is to help profer lasting solution to the menace. The IGP’s invitation is one of the many resolutions made after a deliberation on a motion on the “senseless killing of a Briton and the …

By Jethro Ibileke Suspected​ killers of four police officers, including a pregnant woman at the Afuze Police Station in Owan East local government area of Edo State, were Wednesday paraded by the police in Benin. The suspects, numbering six, were alleged to have killed the officers, set the station ablaze and set free their colleagues who were arrested for armed …