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• Workers spending over twice for food since last salary review in 2018• We are borrowing to survive, federal employees cry out• Reform of industrial system needed, says Oshinowo• Make Nigeria a producing nation, Okon advises incoming administration “The current N30,000 minimum wage is worth less than N18,000 the least paid Nigerian workers received between 2011 and 2018.” – This …

The Aide-De-Camp of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Colonel Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf has assumed office. Yusuf assumed his new role barely four weeks before the inauguration of the president-elect. Yusuf is not a stranger to the Aso Rock vicinity, having previously served in sensitive roles in the Presidential Villa during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. The new ADC is bringing to …

President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged to put in place a living wage for Nigerian workers. In a solidarity message to mark International Workers’ Day, he said his administration would leave no stone unturned to put in place measures aimed at empowering the Nigerian workers. Tinubu said in his administration workers will find a dependable ally and co-labourer in the …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has again rescheduled the computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates who experienced hitches at their centres. Affected candidates, whose inability to take tests was not their fault, are now to sit the test on Saturday, 6th May, JAMB spokesperson Fabian Benjamin said in a statement on Monday. He said the development was part …

NIMC puts Diaspora registration at 409,408 The number of the National Identification Number (NIN) issued to Nigerians by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Nigeria is some 1.29 million away from hitting the 100 million mark. The latest data from NIMC, as of April 28, showed that 98.7 million identification numbers have been issued to Nigerians. Specifically, 56 million …

•FG, APC murdered sleep by rigging polls — LP The Federal Government and the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; and Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, were once again at one another’s jugular over the outcome of the 2023 presidential poll, yesterday. The Federal Government through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said that the state government has implemented institutional reforms to sustain the gains made in improving workers’ welfare. The governor, who said this in commemoration of the 2023 Worker’s Day celebration, said some of the reforms include new legislation, capacity enhancement programmes and policy changes that impact on building a strong and virile …

NEW YORK — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday, making it the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and promptly sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to end the turmoil that has raised questions about the health of the U.S. banking system. It’s the third midsize bank to fail in …

CLEVELAND, Texas— Wilson Garcia hadn’t even asked his neighbor to stop shooting his gun. People in their rural town north of Houston are used to people firing their weapons to blow off steam, but it was late Friday night, and Garcia had a month-old son who was crying. So, Garcia said, he and two other people went to his neighbor’s …

By Eben Enasco  Edo State Internal Revenue Service EIRS, says it has stepped up efforts at digitizing its revenue process by introducing a self-service portal in the State. The move according to the State Internal Revenue Service, is to enable vehicle owners to conduct a self-renew process on expired vehicle documents from the comfort of their homes. A statement signed …