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• We are dying of hunger, citizens cry out • Minimum wage earners to spend 90% of income on rice• I pretend there’s no Christmas, says school teacher • Improve business environment to create jobs, FG urged. Many households are not finding it easy as the ability to purchase daily and basic needs is becoming a tall order for many …

The organised Labour and the Federal Government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent on Monday, noted that the Federal Government only paid N35,000 wage award for September. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy by …

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigeria’s Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen, on winning the CAF 2023 Men’s Player of the Year award. The president, in a release issued on Tuesday by his Media Adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, also celebrated the remarkable achievements of Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria’s Super Falcons, who clinched the 2023 CAF Women’s Player of The Year for the …

The members of the Northern Regional Caucus of the House of Representatives have pledged N450 million worth of infrastructure to the victims of the drone attacks in Tudun Biri community, Igabi Local Government of Kaduna State. They announced the gesture yesterday ,when they visited Government House, Kaduna to  commiserate with the government over the recent bomb incident . The 13 members were …

Bank customers’ agony over the prevailing Naira scarcity increased, yesterday… Bank customers’ agony over the prevailing cash scarcity increased, yesterday, as more banks resorted to rationing cash withdrawals while Point of Sale Operators, PoS, operators, hiked transaction fees by 100 per cent.Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN in a move aimed at ameliorating the situation, suspended charges for cash …

Universities across the country may witness strikes in 2024 due to the small budget allotted to the education sector and poor remuneration, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has said. Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, Prof. Emmanuel Oshodeke, explained that during the campaign and election earlier this year, President Bola Tinubu promised to increase the Education sector to …

The federal government, yesterday, hinted that it might consider returning to the National Assembly to seek the lawmakers’ approval for a supplementary budget next year if the government surpassed its revenue projections. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s N27.5 trillion 2024 appropriation bill is currently being considered by the federal legislature. Addressing a joint sitting of the National Assembly Committee on Finance, …

The Nigerian government is set to unveil the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (NHSRII) as part of efforts aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday night. Mr Pate said a strategy to actualise this initiative will be signed …

Tony Ojukwu (SAN) is the executive secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In this interview with AMEH OCHOJILA, he speaks about the Commission’s effort in combating human rights abuses, mechanism to assist indigents get access to justice, issues about the implementation of the #EndSARS panel reports recommendations and Nigeria’s benefit of becoming a member of the Global Alliance …

A group known as The Voice of The Common Man has warned that the glaring corruption in Nigeria judicial system might lead to crisis if concerted efforts are not taken to stop it. The group has also expressed strong belief in the unity of the country and, therefore, urged federal government not to destroy the future of Nigerian youths. The …