Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed a bill to alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to provide for a single tenure of six years for the president and governors. The lawmakers are also proposing a bill for the rotation Read more…
A former governor of Jigawa State has rubbished the acclaimed label on President Bola Tinubu as the builder of modern Lagos State, faulting his government at the federal level for its inability to get things right. Tinubu served as the Read more…
Organised Labour has insisted on its N250,000 new minimum wage proposal, stating it would not negotiate what it described as ‘starvation wage.’ The Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Chris Onyeka, said labour would not accept the latest Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has removed former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, as the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC). In his place, he has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Hashimu Argungu (Rtd). A Read more…
Berlin will not support France’s proposal to send Western instructors to Ukraine to train its army, German news outlet Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing sources. Earlier reports said that French President Emmanuel Macron had been trying to form Read more…
Godswill Akpabio, Nigeria’s Senate President has said Aliko Dangote, the chairman of the Dangote Group shamed successive governments by completing 650,000 barrels per day refinery. Akpabio said this when he led the leadership of the 10th Senate on a tour Read more…
The new minimum wage talks between the Federal Government and Organised Labour are expected to end on Monday (today) as the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders await President Bola Tinubu’s decision on their N250,000 offer. The Read more…
Former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark, has revealed that prominent politicians including former president Goodluck Jonathan, former Rivers State governors Peter Odili and Rotimi Amaechi responsible for Nyesom Wike’s rise in politics, are no longer on talking terms with Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The re-election of Gov Charles Soludo for a second tenure received a boost over the weekend as one thousand, three hundred stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State defected to the All Progressives Grand Read more…
Hamburg MP Olga Petersen has sought refuge in Russia, telling Bild that she feared having her children taken by the German state over her perceived support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Petersen left Hamburg with her children last month, prompting Read more…
The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) had said a compulsory requirement for the 2024 Batch B registration is National Identity Number (NIN) This was made public on Saturday 8th June 2024 on the official X account of the scheme. “This Read more…
When Governor Willie Obiano instituted the Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature in 2021, his government was showered with encomiums. If anybody’s name deserved a literary prize, it had to be that of the Father of African Literature. However, the people Read more…