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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has pledged commitment to workers welfare while appealing to the Federal Government to urgently transmit the bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, made the appeal in a New Year message on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, 2018 remains one of the most traumatic for workers …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has promised to sustain investment in critical sectors of the state; education, infrastructure, security and job creation initiatives to retain his administration’s positive growth trajectory. Obaseki, who made the pledge in his New Year Message which was broadcast on television and radio stations in the state, said that after two years in the saddle, …

The N30,000 minimum wage demand of labour unions is “neither realistic nor sustainable,” the Nigeria Governors Forum has said. Instead, the NGF said, states should pay a minimum wage of N22,500 but any governor who can pay more than this is free to do so. The forum also said insinuations by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that its members were …

Alhaji  Bala Shagari, eldest son of late President Shehu Shagari has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari over his condolence visit to the family in Sokoto State, even as he noted that his father told them that he had pardoned everybody before his death. According to him, his father had no grudge against Buhari or anyone because Shagari “told us …

The Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, has unveiled the Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary Centre for Natural Product Research (ICCNPR), a research arm of the institution that will seek innovative ways of providing solutions to society’s problems with the use of natural products. The unveiling and groundbreaking ceremony of the center held recently at the school’s premises in Usen, near Benin …

…Says helicopter use is weapon of intimidation by Adams Oshiomhole Edo State branch of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris of impunity for allegedly deploying police helicopter for the private use of former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The PDP alleged that the use of police helicopter by Oshiomhole …

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has warned Nigerian youths to shun money rituals. Oba Ewuare gave the warning on Sunday during a thanksgiving service at the Holy Aruosa Cathedral in Benin to round off the 2018 annual Igue Festival Celebrations. He said youths who cling to the illusion that they could become wealthy by killing people or stealing …

Great Benin King, Oba Ewuare II at the weekend rose from Ugie Festival, wishing all Edos and Nigerians in general, both at home and in the Diaspora a happy and prosperous New Year, with a warning against violence, religious and political hostilities in the country. The Omo N’Oba enjoined them to approach the New Year with renewed hope, zeal and …

The Independent National Electoral Commission is currently under severe pressure not to include the display of election results at polling units and the electronic transmission of results to INEC server in its manual for the conduct of the 2019 polls. Regardless of the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, INEC still reserves the power …

The Nigerian presidency bungled a condolence message to the victims of ongoing armed bandits’ attacks in Zamfara State earlier this week, misidentifying a community that is perhaps the hardest-hit by the rampaging bandits this year. Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, was extending the condolences of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the administration “strongly condemned the killing of innocent Nigerians in Birnin Magaji …