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Dgetirector General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze, says the 2018 budget, at present, cannot accommodate the minimum wage as proposed by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He said the Federal Government might go for supplementary budget to implement the new minimum wage if approved by the law. Akabueze disclosed this at the Media and CSOs Dialogue on the …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday officially registered as a member of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement. Mr. Obasanjo completed the membership form of the movement and handed it over to former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who is the national coordinator of the group. The ceremony was held at the NUJ secretariat, Abeokuta. The movement, which was officially …

Donald Trump has promised a “new American moment” in a State of the Union address that sought harmony but succeeded only in underlining the deep discord at the heart of the country’s politics. The US president preened over a growing economy and pledged a return to national greatness with a nostalgic appeal to family, faith, law and order, the military …

… to set up Forestry Commission Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said the state government will set up a Drug Control Committee in partnership with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to control the cultivation and abuse of Cannabis in the state. The governor, said this when he received the Edo State Commander of NDLEA, Mr. Wakawa …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the payment of N600million counterpart fund for the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme implemented in some local government areas across the state by the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the European Union (EU). Obaseki disclosed this when he received the Chief of WASH programme, UNICEF Nigeria, Zaid Jurji during …

Edo State-ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the government have been warned not to remove Afuze as administrative headquarters of Owan East Local Government. The state Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Osi Orbih gave the warning on Wednesday in Afuze at the 5th stop of the Meet the People Tour 2018 of Owan East Local …

She remembers first crossing the bridge as a girl in the 1950s. “My mother was scared to death because they had little metal balustrades you could see right through and it looked like you could crash over the edge,” Maria Estevez says. “They were scary. My mum would close her eyes when we crossed the bridge.” Today the metal fencing …

Imagine a word in which Michelle Alexander never wrote The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay never produced 13th. A world in which Barack Obama never made criminal justice reform a part of his second-term agenda, creating the largest clemency project in recent US history. It would be a world in which bipartisan consensus never coalesced around the idea that …

Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih has challenged the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and his ruling party to make a bold statement on cattle colonies as proposed by the Federal Government across the states. Chief Orbih gave the charge in Igarra, the administrative headquarters of Akoko Edo Local Government Area, as …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has hailed the return of $73million (about N21.1billion) of the Malabu Funds to Nigeria by the United Kingdom. The organization also expressed a desire that Civil Society Organization (CSOs) should participate in the monitoring of the use of the funds, in the spirit of …