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President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that the salaries of workers earning above the new minimum wage will be renegotiated. He also appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a national minimum wage. President Buhari, who stated this at the inauguration of the technical committee at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, said …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has spelled out the voting procedures for the 2109 General Elections. The election umpire wrote via its verified Twitter handle, @inecnigeria. The following are the seven steps, as stated by INEC: Step 1: Upon arrival at the polling unit, joins the queue and present yourself to the INEC official (APO111) at the polling unit who will determine …

A team of scientists working with the staff of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital,  Edo State has made a breakthrough with a “rapid portable genomic sequencing technology to identify viruses without prior knowledge of the cause of the disease.” The research led by scientists from Public Health England (UK), the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Germany, in collaboration with the …

…Govt queries 28 other private school principals …Warns 16 public, private schools over complicity in exam fraud  Edo State Government has suspended 28 principals of public senior secondary schools over their involvement in examination malpractice in the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Emmanuel Agbale, made this known in a memo to the …

By Louis Odion, FNGE In a recent article, Femi Ojudu, one of Nigerian journalism’s best currently making a difference in national politics, declared the forthcoming general elections as potentially the cheapest in the nation’s history. I cannot agree more. By deliberately keeping the campaign budget low, Buhari has, perhaps unwittingly, helped reduce the financial pressure on his opponents, thereby availing …

Lagos — Three persons were, yesterday, feared dead and scores injured including journalists, as hoodlums suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) invaded the campaign flag-off of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held at Skypower Ground, Ikeja in Lagos State of Nigeria. According to Vanguard report, the hoodlums invaded the venue with guns, daggers  …

Babayo Gamawa, the former deputy national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, who defected to the All Progressives Congress Tuesday after he was suspended by the PDP, is accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of a N500 million fraud. Mr Gamawa is standing trial alongside five chieftains of the PDP in Bauchi State for alleged receipt of …

By Premium Times President Muhamadu Buhari has assured that he will act on the lingering controversy surrounding the retirement of Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. Speaking exclusively to ThisDay/ Arise TV, Mr Buhari took responsibility for not changing his military and security chiefs since 2015. The president has come under criticisms in recent days over his inaction on the …

Stooges of former Libya leader, Muamar Gaddafi, constitute the terrorists perpetrating evil acts in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The bandits, who escaped from Libya after the death of their leader in 2011 took to terrorism, the brunt of which Nigeria and some other African countries are currently bearing, Mr Buhari added. Mr Gaddafi, who led Libya for decades, …

The  Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Khadija Ibrahim, has turned in her resignation. She is wife to a Senator and former Governor of Yobe State, Bukar Abba-Ibrahim. She resigned to contest the February 16 House of Representatives election in her home-state of Yobe. She is contesting the Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency seat. Recall that she had last year contested …