Thursday 02 May 2024 May Day: Governors promise better working conditions, pay rise for workers May Day: Labour gives FG May 31 deadline on Minimum Wage London sword attack suspect charged with murder of 14-year-old British-Nigerian Daniel Anjorin UNIABUJA yet to comply with court order reinstating 21 staff Minimum wage: FG, Labour talks deadlocked, […]
A federal high court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, has fined the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) N10 million for unlawfully declaring Οyinmiebi Biribena, a pastor, and his wife Beatrice, wanted. Isa Dashen, presiding judge, gave the declaration while ruling on a matter marked FHC/YNG/CS/132/2022 filed on June 10, 2022, by the applicants seeking […]
A 75-year-old barber identified as Nwankwo Nweke has been arrested by security operatives in Anambra State for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl. The incident happened in Awka, the state capital, according to a statement issued by Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, the Media Aide to the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, on […]
David Umahi, minister of works, has accused Paul Onwuanibe, chief executive officer (CEO) of Landmark Africa Group, of politicising issues arising from the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project. Umahi spoke on Monday while supervising the demolition of structures at the Landmark Beach in Lagos. Recently, the federal government commenced the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal […]
A 14-year-old boy who lost his life on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police officers and two other people in a street attack in east London has been identified as Daniel Anjorin. A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. BBC reports that Anjorin attended Bancroft’s, […]
Lagos State’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday said the government discovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10 and 12×10, under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, on Lagos Island. Tenants are said to be paying N250,000 per annum for the makeshift apartment under the bridge. Wahab shared this information via a […]
The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality. The church has long been divided into factions over LGBTQ inclusion and even weighed splitting into two separate churches over the issue, CNN previously reported. In 1984, the church banned “self-avowed practicing […]
Minister of Works, Engr Dave Umahi, has accused the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, of inciting some of the people of South-East against the federal government over the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project. Umahi said this on Wednesday in an event organised to compensate the affected owners of demolished structures while creating […]
The Federal Government says although the Tripartite Committee On National Minimum Wage is yet to conclude its negotiations, workers will not lose anything as the new minimum wage will take effect from May 1, 2024. The Minister of State Labour, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, stated this on Wednesday while addressing Nigerian workers at the May Day […]
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has disclosed that the Federal Government will, on Wednesday (today), pay N2.75 billion compensation to property owners affected by the demolition necessary for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway spanning from channel 0 to channel 3. He revealed this information during a stakeholders meeting held in Lagos […]
