Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, started giving back to society while waiting to be charged for “facilitating and arranging travel with the aim of exploiting “a 21-year old”, a former inmate, Mr. X, has told The Guardian. He described him as a “simple and nice man.” The Nigerian-born X, however, said he had never heard…
A 60-year-old Russian woman was given a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday for leaving a note with an “insulting inscription” on the grave of ???????? President Vladimir Putin’s parents, independent news sites reported on Thursday. Prosecutors had sought a three-year suspended sentence for Irina Tsybaneva, who in October was charged with desecrating the grave in…
•Funding captured in this year’s budget, says Fed Govt•President-elect promises living wage•Other categories of federal workers, including health workers and lecturers, will soon enjoy a pay rise like their counterparts – core civil servants, who are on Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS). Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said yesterday during the May…
The regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd), on Monday claimed that a total of 1.6 million poor households benefited from a bimonthly payment of N10,000 each as part of the regime’s plan to mitigate suffering among the citizens. The Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, made this known during the…
Organised Labour, yesterday, raised the alarm over what it described as last-minute looting of the treasury by out-going governors, ministers and other political office holders and called on President Muhammad Buhari to do everything possible to stop them. Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterparts, raised…
A firm belonging to the son of Nigeria’s president-elect bought an $11 million London mansion that his predecessor’s government was seeking to confiscate as part of a probe into one of the biggest corruption scandals in the West African nation’s history, according to previously unreported UK company documents. There’s no suggestion that President-elect Bola Tinubu was…
FG may be unable to pay salaries beyond June 2023 without removing fuel subsidy, massive money printing, says Obaseki…urges workers to champion cause for subsidy removal…pledges to sustain reforms to better workers’ welfare, improve livelihoods The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday, said the Federal Government may not be able to pay workers’…
Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has said that American billionaire, Elon Musk, is not the right person to run the company, noting that it “all went south” for Musk after he bought the social media giant. Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion, in a victory by the world’s richest man…
WITH just four weeks left to quit office, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and regime officials are taking decisions and inking deals that are potential booby traps for their successors. Among these are a pay rise, fresh contracts and procurement deals, borrowings and unresolved reforms that will undoubtedly add to the already humongous challenges that await the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Buhari…
A Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit driver, Osibanjo Oluwaseun, who collided with a moving train at Ikeja and allegedly killed six people was, on Tuesday, arraigned before an Ikeja High Court. The defendant, who was arraigned before Justice Oyindamola Ogala, is facing 16 counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter and previous harm, preferred against him by the…