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As the nation waits for a new National Minimum Wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to shut down the country for a month over plans by the National Assembly to deregulate the Minimum Wage. President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, who spoke on the sideline of the 67th Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, insisted that minimum wage is a national issue. Ajaero warned that organised labour would not accept a situation where governors working with the members of the National Assembly would imposed slave wage and poverty on…

Africa’s richest man, Mr Aliko Dangote, has said the house he stays whenever he is in Nigeria’s capital city is not his personal property. During a media parley at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, on Sunday, Dangote said his passion for an industrialised Nigeria is the sole reason he doesn’t have houses outside Nigeria. He revealed that he once had a house in London, disclosing that he sold it in 1996. “The reason I don’t have a London or America house is solely because I wanted to focus…

…Urge SA to step on toes Following his unrelenting efforts to sanitize the state of activities of illegal park operators and other anti road uses, motorists in Owerri Municipality have pledged their individual support for Pastor Frank Onwumere  Special Adviser (SA) on Illegal Motor Parks. Motorists who separately made the pledge at their various parks said within two weeks the SA began work the state capital has worn a new look noting that loading on the roads, illegal park activities, road trading and other traffic offences are now at low…

Veteran singer and social activist, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, says he will no longer accord respect to the Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka.Charly Boy, a staunch critic of President Bola Tinubu made the assertion in a post on his official X handle on Friday while reacting to the renaming of the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos after Soyinka. It was reported that President Tinubu in a tribute he wrote to celebrate Soyinka in commemoration of his 90th birthday, announced the renaming of the facility after Soyinka. Reacting, Charly…

The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Ali Ndume says the Nigerian government is peopled by persons of questionable characters and antecedents. Speaking during an interview with Arise Television on Thursday on Friday, Ndume stated that Nigeria is now being run by “kleptocrats”. He said: “The government is also populated by kleptocrats, but unfortunately that is not what the President is up to; he really meant renewed hope, but you can only do that when you have people around you that are on the same type of thinking.”