January 2, 2020

Labour , EKSUTH Clash Over Sack Of 200 Ekiti Health Workers

January 2, 2020 8:26 am
The organised labour in Ekiti State and the management of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital are heading for a serious clash over the sack of 200 professional staff of the health institution.

The workers were shoved out of the service in December, 2019, through a process called reorganisation by the management, but which the Nigerian labour and other allied unions, had succinctly described as “illegality and infringement of the civil service rules”.

Speaking for the staff, who are majorly experts in various fields on Thursday, the organised labour via the Chairperson, Joint Health Sector Unions(JOHESU), EKSUTH chapter, Com Omotola

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Obaseki Can’t Hold APC Hostage, State Chairmen Declare

January 2, 2020 8:24 am

The Forum of State Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress has tasked the recently constituted National Reconciliation Committee to come up with an action plan to resolve the lingering crisis in the party.

The chairmen urged the committee headed by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to set for work and ignore the camp of the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, which had raised objection to the membership of the committee.

They said Edo as the only one out of the 36 states and Abuja, should not be allowed to frustrate peace efforts in the party since it was not …

Nigerians’ Incomes Will Shrink In 2020 – Rewane

January 2, 2020 8:23 am

The disposable incomes of Nigerian consumers will be squeezed by the proposed increase of Value Added Tax and electricity tariff this year, an economic and financial expert, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, has said.

Rewane, who is the Managing Director /Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, said the VAT hike (from five percent to 7. 5 percent) would lead to higher commodity prices.
He said other challenges would include low income per capita ( currently at $2, 236), high-income inequality and rising poverty rate in the country.
He spoke at the December edition of the LBS Breakfast Session on Tuesday.…

Melaye: I Will Fight For Better Society Through Movie Roles

January 2, 2020 8:22 am

Dino Melaye has said that he will use his movie roles to fight for a better society.

The former Kogi West Senator made this known to NAN reporters in Abuja during the premier of a new movie he acted, entitled, ‘Lemonade’.

He said, “I brought my political experience to bear and to say that in changing the society everyone should be involved in it. The message is that we must have a nation and a society where leaders must be responsible, where followers must ask questions, where every Nigerian must decide to either work in the light of our creative …

Nigeria, Sierra Leone Plan Currency Swap

January 2, 2020 8:22 am

The Chairman, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Governors of Central Banks, Prof. Kelfala Kallon, has disclosed a plan for currency swap between Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Kallon, who is presently the Governor, Bank of Sierra Leone, also decried the increasing dollarisation of West African economies and subsequent depreciation of national currencies in the region.

Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Peoples Bank of China (PBoC), had in 2018, agreed on a currency swap worth $2.5 billion to reduce their reliance on the U.S. dollar in bilateral trade.

The agreement is aimed at providing …

Oshiomhole Blasted For Calling On Nigerians To Pray For Him

January 2, 2020 4:06 am
A former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Edo State, Charles Idahosa, has told his former boss, and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to stop playing the victim of the crisis rocking the party across the country.

Idahosa said that Oshiomhole was the cause of the crisis and so should stop playing the victim card.

He was reacting to the former Edo State Governor’s call on Nigerians to remember him in their prayers over his fate in the party.

Oshiomhole made the call at a meeting with some party members in Edo.

Idahosa, a former

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