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Chairman, Senate  Committee on Finance,  Senator Sani Musa,  APC, Niger East has written to the President,  Nigeria  Labour Congress,  NLC, Joe Ajaero, the organised Labour, appealing to the leadership of the NLC and TUC to suspend the declared strike action. According to him, suspending the proposed strike would  allow room for what he described as continued negotiations as well as  …

…as Akume, Gbajabimila, Edun, others present The leadership of the National Assembly and five ministers have commenced a meeting with the executive of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in a bid to avert the planned indefinite workers’ strike. The leadership of organised labour had declared an indefinite strike billed to commence on Monday, June 3, over …

Senator representing Sokoto South Senatorial District, Senator Aminu Tambuwal said President Bola Tinubu’s government can never be disassociated from the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure. Tambuwal stated this in his remarks during the stakeholders meeting of the PDP in Sokoto State on Sunday. He has asked President Tinubu to stop using some unsolicited and negative remarks about Buhari’s tenure. The …

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has been released from the Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja after 27 months in custody. This followed the ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja that granted Kyari two weeks bail. The court said the two-week bail was to allow Kyari to return home to conclude his mother’s burial rites. The court subsequently set …

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way. The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated …

Trade Union Congress (TUC) President, Comrade Festus Osifo has commended the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki for prioritising the welfare of workers in the State and increasing the minimum of workers to N70,000, which is the highest in the Country. Comrade Osifo gave the commendation during a courtesy visit at the Government House, in Benin City. He commended the …

…declare total shutdown  Rising from an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Lagos chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have ordered a total shutdown of schools, government offices, airspace, electricity and water as of midnight on Sunday. The unions, in a joint press briefing, addressed by their chairmen, Comrade Funmi Session and Comrade Gbenga Ekundayo, …

The presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi said 2023 general elections have proved that the Yorubas do not hate the Igbos. Obi stated this while receiving the 2024 Courageous Citizen Award from the Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy (NACJD) in Abuja on Saturday. The former Anambra State governor noted that the election was not a Christian or …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said politics must always be about bettering the lives of the people, noting that his government plays a politics centered on serving the people and putting the State on the path of accelerated growth and prosperity. Obaseki reassured that his government will not share or give treasury looters access to Edo people’s money …

NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It’s the same courthouse where five Black and Latino youths were …