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Hope has risen for workers expecting a new minimum wage beginning this year. This follows the constitution of the 37-member Tripartite Committee to negotiate and agree on the new minimum wage. The current minimum wage of N30,000 went into effect five years ago. The panel members will be inaugurated tomorrow at Aso Villa, according to a government statement. To chair …

“Arrested and detained Ruth Ogunleye, claiming she is undergoing rehab, but did not arrest the officers she accused of sexual harassment”. Ruth had raised the alarm in the viral video that some senior army officers were threatening her life for rejecting their sexual advances. Nigerian women affairs minister, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, has announced that she paid a visit to Ruth …

Federal Government’s battle to stem inflation, exchange rate crises is total, Information and National Orientation Minister Mohammed Idris said yesterday. Idris said the government was deploying the required measures, including devoting various ministries and agencies under its control, to bring down rising inflation and stabilising the foreign exchange market for the prosperity and comfort of all Nigerians. The minister, who …

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is yet to receive any direct formal notification from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic about their intention to withdraw from the Community. In a statement on Sunday, the Commission said it has been “working assiduously with these countries for the restoration of constitutional order. Burkina Faso, …

The federal government will on Tuesday, inaugurate a 37-man Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage with a mandate to recommend a new national minimum wage for the country. A statement issued by the director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Segun Imohiosen, the planned inauguration of the Committee is sequel to …

‘We’re Suffering; For Some Of Us, Our N50,000 Salary Can’t Even Buy 50kg Bag Of Rice’ The soldier also urged Tinubu to take his anti-corruption war to the armed forces, lamenting the non-payment of the government’s N35,000 monthly palliative to workers. An aggrieved soldier of the Nigerian Army has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the issue of poor treatment …

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have announced they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). The junta-led countries had already been suspended from the bloc, which has been urging them to return to democratic rule. The three governments said it was a “sovereign decision” to withdraw from Ecowas. They were also founding members of the bloc, first …

•We saw hell – survivors’ scary stories•Cities, roads across Nigeria worst hit•Over N6 billion demanded by kidnappers Beyond Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which has recorded several cases of kidnapping recently, there is heightened fear in no fewer than 19 states of the federation following a spike in the activities of kidnappers and their kingpins. So worrisome is the …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted for dealing in illicit drug activities. According to a statement released by Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA National Headquarters in Abuja, the suspect, who held the title of Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation, …

The operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested one Bello Mohammed, 28, of Zamfara state, in Kaduna. The force headquarters on Sunday in a statement by Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed that on 20th January raided one hotel in Tafa Area, Kaduna, where he arrested Bello in Zamfara with the sum of N2.25m suspected to be …