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Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, said on Wednesday, July 10, that it was still studying the directive by the President on Tuesday on food importation to ease the hunger in the country. This is as the service said it generated about N2.7 trillion in the first six months of 2024, an increase of about N200 billion …

…says current scheme falls short of fundamental purpose The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero on Wednesday, June 10, called for a return to the old pension scheme regime. Ajaero said the current regime falls short of the fundamental purpose it was set up to address. He spoke at the 2024 National Pre-retirement Summit with the theme “challenges, strategies, …

American Helene Sula vividly remembers the first time she discovered tap water was a different ball game in Europe. Sula, from Texas, was at a restaurant in Germany. When the server asked for her drink order, Sula requested water. “They kind of scoffed at me like, ‘You can get water. But why would you?’” Sula recalls. She remembers glancing around …

An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has revealed that the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor Godwin Emefiele, and his wife Margaret, were not signatories to the account alleged to have been owned by them. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud, while in office. Ogbonnaya, …

The remains of Nigeria’s late Senate President, Joseph Wayas, were received at the Cargo Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday, July 10. The remains arrived from Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom, aboard British Airways flight BA O83 at 4:40 am on July 10, 2024. The late lawmaker, originally from Obudu Local Government Area in Cross River State, …

…orders trial of security agents that attacked protesters at Lekki Toll Gate The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Wednesday, found the Federal Government guilty of violating the fundamental human rights of youths that participated in the October 2020, EndSARS protest. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justices, …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s imperiled re-election campaign hit new trouble Wednesday as House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said merely “it’s up to the president to decide” if he should stay in the race, celebrity donor George Clooney said he should not run and Democratic senators and lawmakers expressed fresh fear about his ability to beat Republican Donald Trump. The sudden flurry of grave pronouncements despite Biden’s determined …

President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday, July 11, meet organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria as part of consultation before sending a bill on a new national minimum wage to the National Assembly. President of TUC, Comrade Festus Osifo confirmed this to reporters on Wednesday. “The president has invited the organised labour …

The lawmakers discussed the Agreement on Tuesday following the alleged inclusion of “The LGBTQ+ clause in the document. The House of Representatives may have embarked on a misinformation campaign regarding the outcome of the debate on the Samoa Agreement. The lower chamber of the National Assembly discussed the Agreement on Tuesday following the alleged inclusion of “The LGBTQ+ clause in …

…sets up Six-Man investigation panel The National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has suspended the party’s National Vice Chairman, South South, Chief Dan Orbih, and set up a six-man investigation committee to probe allegations of anti-party activities leveled against him. This decision was taken at the PDP NWC’s 588th meeting held at the party’s National Secretariat, …