Indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu may announce the new minimum wage on May 1 in commemoration of the International Labour Day and backdate its implementation to April. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the National Minimum Wage Committee was working to Read more…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies as outrageous and a daylight robbery, just as he commended Governor Alex Otti of Abia State for repealing the law backing pension payment for Read more…
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored United Nations resolution supporting “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, calling the measure ambiguous and saying it was not the direct demand to end the fighting that much of Read more…
More than 70 ambulance crews treated and evacuated the victims of the deadly terrorist attack that took place at a large concert hall near Moscow, officials have said. Gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on Friday night just Read more…
The village of Tonenkoye, located to the northwest of Avdeevka, has been liberated according to the Defense Ministry Moscow’s forces have liberated the village of Tonenkoye in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Thursday. Tonenkoye has Read more…
Following reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has cleared all valid foreign exchange backlogs, foreign airlines, yesterday, questioned the claim. President of Association of Foreign Airlines and Representatives in Nigeria, AFARN, Mr Kingsley Nwokeoma, who spoke to Vanguard, Read more…
The former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council in the 2023 general elections, Akin Osuntokun, has recommended that a member from the North should become the next chairman of the party. Osuntokun, who said this during a chat Read more…
Abia Governor Alex Otti has assented to the Abia Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Repeal Law of 2024 passed by the Assembly. The Governor who explained that the Bill is an Executive Bill, thanked the Assembly for expeditiously passing it. Read more…
A former Director of the Department of State Services, Mike Ejiofor, has said the Nigerian Army is an interested party in the killing of 17 military personnel in Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State Read more…
The 36 State Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have underscored the need to put the creation of state police on the front burner during the ongoing alteration of the 1999 Constitution initiated by the National Read more…
From Ifeoma EjioforAzia Igwe elect, Chief Felix Ifeanyimo on Thursday said that the Royal stool of the community is not in contention. Chief Ifeanyimo stated this during an interactive session with journalists in Awka. He said as a matter of Read more…
At the March meeting of the Surulere Lawyers Forum, legal luminary Afam Osigwe, SAN emphasized the importance of improved remuneration for lawyers in Nigeria. Osigwe, who chairs the Remuneration Committee established by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), delivered a keynote address Read more…