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…
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Imolites Pressurizing Araraume To Run For Imo Guber, 2027
…Source: He’s yet to show any interest for now There are indications that as 2027 draws nearer, scores of prominent Imo people at home and in Diaspora have started mounting pressure on Distinguished Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume to prepare for the Governorship of the State. Nigeria Newspoint gathered from sources close to the former Senator for Okigwe (Imo North ) confirmed that individuals and Groups from Imo state have been visiting Araraume to plead with him to throw his hat in the ring again for the Imo Governorship Seat. Those…
Read MoreStand up against Nnamdi Kanu’s rendition -Ejimakor challenges Britain
Aloy Ejimakor, lead counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, called on Britain on Monday to stand up against the rendition of the Biafra agitator. He made the call in response to reports by United States lawmakers urging the U.S. State Department to secure the release of Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of Financial Crime Compliance. Gambaryan was arrested on allegations of money laundering and tax evasion alongside his colleague, Nadeem Anjarwalla, but Nigerian authorities dropped the tax evasion charges in June. The money laundering case…
Read MoreI Live In A Rented Apartment In Abuja –Dangote
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…
Read MoreOrlu Senate: Izunaso ‘s One Year: Esiwe commends Izunaso on quality representation
The Immediate past co-ordinator of Nkwerre West Development Centre, High Chief Michael Esiwe has commended the Senator representing Orlu zone in the National Assembly, Senator Osita.B. Izunaso on quality and effective representation. Esiwe gave the commendation while speaking to journalists on the occasion of his score card presentation/Town Hall Meeting with his constituents held at Nkwerre Country Club in Nkwerre Local Government Area,Imo state. The former Coordinator, Development Centre who described the event as a welcome development, a step in the right direction lauded the senator for the initiative to…
Read MoreImo Guber: Appeal Court Judgement Mere Distraction – Anyanwu
…Expresses confidence in Supreme Court, …Urges, Imolites , PDP members be calm. Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the November 11,2023 Governorship election in Imo state, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has described the latest judgement of the Appeal Court affirming the declaration of the APC candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma as Governor as a mere distraction. The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday,Tuesday, July 16, dismissed the appeal challenging the declaration of the APC candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma as Governor of Imo state. Anyanwu maintains that such verdict remains inconsequential…
Read MoreIllegal Motor Parks: Motorists Rally Support For Onwumere
…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…
Read MoreCharly Boy reacts over renaming of National Theatre after Soyinka, says I withdraw my respect
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…
Read MoreNigerian Govt Now Run By Thieves, Criminals -Ndume Alleges
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.”
Read MoreFG, States Must Adopt Strong Agric Policies To Quench Rising Hunger
The prevailing high prices of food items in Nigeria appear to have reached a crescendo. Suffice to say that Nigerians are already beleaguered by the palpable economic situation in the country, presently. Prices of goods and service continue to climb to the top of the mountains under the present administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Although the economic situation in the country began to slide to worrisome lows under the lacklustre Muhammadu Buhari administration that left office on May 29, 2019. The over one year-old Tinubu administration as Nigeria’s President…
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