Reps summon Power, Labour Ministers over planned strike by electricity workers

Tony Akowe, Abuja The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Labour and Employment and the Minister of Power as well as the Director-General of the National Pension Commission to appear before it on Thursday, December 12, 2019 to brief the leadership

Minimum wage: Corps members to get increment from 2020 budget – Ministerinister

Frank Ikpefan, Abuja   The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has disclosed that serving National Youth Service Corps members will enjoy increased allowance as a result of the N30, 000 minimum wage from next year. The minister said that increase

Electricity workers begin strike

Yusufu Aminu Idegu, Jos and Toba Agboola, Lagos Nationwide blackout is imminent as electricity workers begin indefinite strike this morning. The industrial action is declared under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) The union said the decision to down

Akpabio withdraws from Akwa Ibom N’West senatorial rerun election

Sanni Onogu, Abuja The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has pulled out of the forthcoming Akwa Ibom North West senatorial rerun election. Akpabio who was a former Minority Leader of the Senate, in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of

Aisha Buhari to Garba Shehu, You are a disloyal traitor

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has taken President’s media aide, Garba Shehu to the cleaners, accusing him of disloyalty and abandoning his responsibility and issuing presidential directive behind her husband, while tacitly asking him to resign. Mrs Buhari who made this known

Senate seeks to appropriate N2.1tr for Constituency projects, Bill passes 2nd reading

  While Federal Government is investigating Legislators over the appropriation of over 11 trillion constituency funds disbursed for various projects, members of the National Assembly would henceforth be allocated N2.1trillion to execute constituency projects if a Bill that seeks to set aside 20

Edo APC in the eye of the storm: Ex Speaker demands N500m damages from APC scribe

  The All Progressives Congress in Edo State seems to be birthing in an endless stormy water with the party becoming a nest of commotion. There is hardly a day that passes by without certainty of quarrel as sanity seems to have taking

Just in: IPOB leader’s lawyer, Ejiofor sues police over alleged invasion

In a bid to seek redress over his alleged complicity in the killing of two persons and to enforce his human rights, a lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed of the group – Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – Ifeanyi Ejiofor

Why I oppose hate speech Bill – Soyinka

Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka on Monday said he was opposed to the hate speech Bill because it would limit free speech and access to information. He said though he had been a victim, he would not support any attempt

Sowore’s continual detention: Our son must not die, family members cry out

Worried by the twitchy situation surrounding their son’s continual detention in the custody of State Security Service (SSS), the family of embattled Omoyele Sowore is concerned over the condition of their son. In a statement jointly signed by Deacon S.M Omoyeni, Olusegun Sowore