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The organised labour has said it will hold its planned nationwide protest on Wednesday despite the Monday rollout of subsidy removal palliative plans by President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had in a national broadcast unveiled N500bn palliative for manufacturers, small businesses and farmers. He also released plans to increase salaries and acquire 3,000 mass transit buses. […]
The federal government has shifted the date for its new monthly pension payment for pensioners in the parastatals under the Ministry of Power and Transportation. Mr Gbenga Ajayi, Head of Corporate Communications at the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), disclosed this on Friday in a statement. According to him, the July date earlier […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given the Federal Government seven-day ultimatum to reverse all its anti-poor policies or face an indefinite nationwide strike. NLC has fixed August 2 for the commencement of the strike if their demands remain unmet. These policies include the recent hike in the pump price of petrol. […]
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, Tuesday said that a total of 1,618 civil servants with fake employment letters were uncovered by the government. She also noted that the government was working towards an upward review of the Duty Tour Allowances of civil servants. Speaking with selected journalists in Abuja […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday identified poverty and vulnerability as among the major challenges facing Nigeria. The Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Esuabana Nko-Asanye, made this known during the opening ceremony of a two-day policy and programmatic dialogue workshop on Nigeria’s poverty profile […]
No fewer than 65 civil servants on the directorate cadre are currently jostling to be appointed principals of some of the nation’s unity schools. The process of selection commenced today, July 25, 2023, in Abuja. Nigeria’s 110 unity schools include special schools for the gifted spread across the 36 states of the federation […]
Nigerians have been advised to stop consuming hides (ponmo), smoked meat and bush meat due to the outbreak of Anthrax in some neighbouring countries. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development gave the caution on Monday in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe. […]
The Federal Government and the striking Joint Health Sector Union will reconvene today (Thursday) in a bid to find a resolution to the ongoing indefinite strike. The National Vice-chairman of JOHESU, Dr Obinna Ogbonna, disclosed this in an exclusive interview with newsmen. The unions had met with the government last Thursday, but the meeting ended […]
The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has struck out the suit filed by a factional president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, UMAR LAWAL, seeking for the court’s order to mandate the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call of its industrial action and return to the classroom. LAWAL, who told the court […]
The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr. MONDAY UBANI has threatened to sue the Federal Government if it follows through with its threat to ban cooked cow skin, popularly called ‘ponmo’. UBANI in a statement noted that ponmo is the most common delicacy that is mostly […]
