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Eighteen months after organised labour mooted an idea for a wage increase for government workers, a positive response may soon come for the unions. The unions at the 2016 May Day anniversary reechoed their proposal for N56,000 minimum wage for workers. They argued that N18, 000 was no longer realistic as the minimum wage going by the prevailing economic realities. …

Dr Mas’udu Kazaure, the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education ( NBTE ) has called on the Federal Government to establish more technical colleges across the country. Kazaure told newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday, that the country was supposed to have at least one technical college in each of the 774 Local Government Areas. He said the …

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has dismissed claims by Chairman of Presidential Committee on Anti-corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, that Nigerians would have been crossing the Sahara to Libya had he (Jonathan) stayed in office for another three years. Jonathan, who reacted through one of his aides, Reno Omokri, said facts on ground suggested otherwise, stressing that the nation’s economy was …

The Federal Government says it has not been able to pay the statutory 5% to the Ikoyi whistle blower due to controversy surrounding the claim.The minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed made this known on Tuesday during his visit to Leadership Newspaper. He said the issue is a bit complicated because two persons are currently laying claims to …

As part of ongoing efforts to revamp the estate development and housing sector in the state, the Edo Development and Property Authority (EDPA) has commenced the recertification exercise for legal occupants of government-owned estates in Benin City, the state capital. The recertification exercise, which commenced on Monday, November 27, at the Andrew Wilson Housing Estate, Evbuoriaria, off Sapele Road in …

By Alltimepost.com Following a long period of silence, North Korea today defied the United States of America and the world by launching a provocative intercontinental ballistic missile, the third this year and first, since President Trump labeled Kim Jong Un’s regime a state sponsor of terrorism. United States Defense Department detected and tracked a single North Korea missile launch today …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, to facilitate release of 50 per cent from the balance of the first tranche of Paris Club refund to the 36 state governors. ‎ The President said the governors must use the amount, which has not been disclosed, to clear all outstanding workers’ salaries before Christmas. Imo State governor, …

Each time Van Nguyen got pregnant, her doctor advised her either to stop working at the San Francisco nail salon she owns – or have an abortion. But Nguyen wanted to keep her babies and couldn’t afford to stop working. So she avoided seeing doctors throughout her four pregnancies, despite experiencing significant bleeding during all four, and miscarriages during two. …

On Friday 2 December 2016, a curious story appeared on the website GhanaBusinessNews.com. “Ghana security authorities shut down fake US Embassy in Accra,” the headline declared. For a decade, the story went, there had been a fake US embassy in the Ghanaian capital. The fraudsters behind it had flown the American flag from their building and even hung a portrait …

Ireland’s deputy prime minister is to resign to avert a parliamentary vote that would have collapsed the minority government and triggered a snap election at a crunch time for Brexit negotiations. Irish lawmakers had been due to vote on Tuesday on a no-confidence motion targeting the deputy premier, Frances Fitzgerald, filed by the opposition party Fianna Fáil. Her position – …