The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has announced the death of its Director-General, Dr Timothy Olawale. NECA Secretariat said in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday that Olawale passed on, on Friday, Oct. 1 in a hospital in Abuja. “It is with
Kwara Government has reached an agreement on minimum wage with Organised Labour in the State. The deal confirmed that the payment for levels one to six had begun since February 2021. The agreement holds that the consequential adjustment would be implemented “as would
The Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) has queried expenditures by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) totaling about N467million, which allegedly contravened extant financial regulations of the Federal Government. The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA , General Buba Marwa (retd.),
Just seven months into her four-year tenure as the Director General at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), there are reports that Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is growing frustrated with the workings of the organization and has floated the idea of resigning if no headway
Yesterday, while the State of Nigeria was preparing for the celebration of Nigeria’s 61st Indepence Anniversary, the residents of Owerri were embroiled in panic buying. The Indigenous People of Biafra had issued Sit-At-Home Order and hoisting down of Nigerian flags in the South
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the ban on microblogging site, Twitter, be lifted. President Buhari made the disclosure in his October 1 independence anniversary speech on Friday morning. However, the President said, the lifting of the ban is based on Twitter meeting
Protesters under the banner of #TakeItBack Movement and #RevolutionNow on Friday stormed the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos. The protesters registered their displeasure against insecurity, poor economy, lawlessness, and other challenges in the country. The protest coincides with the nation’s 61st Independence
Begins full production Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State is excited that Adapalm Nigeria Ltd is now ready to engage 120,000 workers with the restoration of full production capacity and removal of encumbrances. He said in the coming weeks, the newly resuscitated Adapalm
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has granted an application Lagos State filed to be joined as an interested party in the suit that stripped the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, of the right to collect Value Added Tax, VAT. The
Oyo State government, among other interested States, has asked to be joined in the battle to take over collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The state like Lagos State and others asked the Court of
The wave of abduction of journalists that continues to grow under a so-called democratic government
Chadians vote for a president on Monday in an election purportedly aimed at ending military
– As Chief Okeke Thunders In line with his astute stance against the “cast system”
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has responded to the incessant power supply in the