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Only 14 states complying Rivers paying N30,000, Kwara, Gombe N10,000 States yet to commence payment of wage award to cushion the effect of subsidy pain may be in for a raw deal. Labour centre – Trade Union Congress (TUC) – has expressed its intention to take on such states. As part of measures to mitigate the effect of petrol subsidy withdrawal, the …

•Banks, other service providers denied access A major Internet disruption hit West and Central Africa, yesterday, the Internet observatory, Netblocks said, citing reports from operators of multiple subsea cable failures. While the cause of the cable failures was not immediately clear, Ivory Coast, Nigeria experienced severe outages, while Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso saw a high impact. Reuters noted …

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A federal judge on Thursday rejected one bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a two-page order saying that though the Trump team had raised “various arguments …

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Dr. Mele Kyari, revealed on Wednesday that the corporation recorded 9,000 infractions on its pipelines within one year. Dr. Kyari made this disclosure while addressing the House of Representatives’ Special Committee on Oil Theft, led by Hon. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, during an oversight function at the NNPCL headquarters in …

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved N873.23 billion for the execution of three projects across the country by the Ministry of Works. Works Minister Dave Umahi, who dropped the hint in a chat with reporters at the State House, Abuja, after the FEC meeting, listed the projects as the Obajana-Benin Road; Isheri-Ogun Road and the Outer Marina Shoreline protection. The …

More controversies appear to be swirling around the 2024 budget as more indications that the portion of the budget attributable to some federal government institutions lack details and transparency. The affected institutions, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were allocated between N3.5 trillion and N3.7 trillion without specific expenditure heading, or stipulations of what the monies were meant for. …

Federal Govt ‘reviewing proposals’ ‘We won’t pay ransom’ ‘There are stage-managed abductions in Abuja’ The Federal Government is reviewing the offer of foreign assistance in the battle against kidnapping and other high-profile crimes. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the United States and other countries, which he did not name, have offered to assist Nigeria. He spoke with …

All is not well in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, as a Federal High Court, in Abuja, will, today, begin sitting on a suit brought before it by Dennis Idahosa, who is claiming to be the Edo governorship candidate of the party and does not want the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accept any other person …

Members in court, seek his release Court to rule March 22 The Federal Government has charged a leader of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore group, Bello Bodejo, with illegally raising an armed ethnic militia group. In a charge filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja on March 12, the Federal Government accused Bodejo of establishing the ethnic militia group without …

Nigerian civil rights group, Talakawa Parliament has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest against the continuing silence maintained by police authorities over the alleged brutal killings of 19 policemen in Delta State. Talakawa’s Parliament threatened to mobilize members nationwide for protest against what it described as the senseless and mindless killing of Policemen in an evil forest in Delta …