Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has directed Heads of Local Government Administration to immediately take charge of the 23 council areas of the State. This follows the expiration of the statutory three-year tenure of the elected local government chairmen, vice chairmen and councillors on Monday, June 17, 2024. Governor Fubara gave the directive in a statewide broadcast in Government …
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Biden To Give Legal Status To 500,000 Undocumented Spouses
Despite withering criticism, President Joe Biden has vowed to make the US immigration system “more just President Joe Biden is set to announce a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation, according to administration officials. The issue of immigration has proven an election-year headache for Mr Biden, who recently issued a …
Read More »Nigerians Must Move Beyond Trading Blames, Picking Faults To Save Nation – Obaseki
To save Nigeria from the pervasive economic challenges and place it on the path of prosperity and progress, Nigerians must move beyond trading blames and picking faults, but bond in unity, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has emphasized. Obaseki, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, said the country is at a crossroads, restating the need for a serious …
Read More »Why Labour Should Review Stance On Minimum Wage — Committee
The tripartite committee on national minimum wage has given reasons why the organised labour should have a rethink on the amount it is demanding as minimum wage. Alhaji Goni Aji, the chairman of the committee said this in Abuja on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Organised Labour is demanding for N250,000 as minimum wage per month …
Read More »The War In Gaza Has Wiped Out Entire Palestinian Families, AP Documents 60 Who Lost Dozens Or More
BEIRUT — He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks. Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem’s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of days in December. By spring that toll had risen to 270. Bones …
Read More »UAE To Lift Visa Ban On Nigerians Soon — Keyamo
The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has revealed plans by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, to lift the visa ban imposed on Nigerian travellers, soon. Keyamo disclosed this during a 44-minute interview with the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu, Otega Ogra, published on the official YouTube page of the State House of Nigeria. He noted that a …
Read More »A Large Part Of The US Is Preparing For A Heat Wave.
What to know about this week’s massive heatwave and how to stay safe Things are about to heat up in much of the U.S. with dangerously hot temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast next week, prompting health officials to urge people to make plans now to stay safe. The heat wave follows an earlier-than-usual one in the Southwest last week, which saw …
Read More »Obaseki Seeks Muslims’ Support For Govt’s Programs
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has tasked Muslims in the State to continue to support government programs and policies and take the right decisions to ensure sustainability of the development recorded by his administration across all sectors of the state’s economy The governor said this while receiving Muslim faithful in Benin City led by the Deputy Chief Imam, Alh …
Read More »New Minimum Wage For Nigerian Workers Must Align With Global Standards, SERAP Tells Tinubu
The president in his Democracy Day Speech on June 12 stated, “We shall soon send an executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine the new minimum wage as part of our law for the next five years or less.” The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to “ensure that his government’s proposed bill on …
Read More »The Woman Who Founded Father’s Day Was A Renegade, Great-Granddaughter Says
LOS ANGELES — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking neckties to kids’ finger paintings crafted with so much love by …
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