The Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Rep. Alhassan Ado Doguwa has urged the protesting organised labour to rather go home to lobby their representatives at the National Assembly instead if they want to kill the bill which seeks to remove minimum wage from the exclusive list.
Doguwa gave the advice while addressing some of protesters who came to protest at the National Assembly complex on Wednesday.
While commending the workers for their peaceful protest, he said they have channelled their grievances through the right channel.
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Workers on the platform of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), have declared that any attempt to remove the minimum wage from the exclusive list is an attempt to enslave Nigerian workers.
The workers made this disclosure when they protested against the removal of minimum wage from the exclusive list.
The workers who protested in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Wednesday advised the Oyo State House of Assembly not to be part of the Bill that would return Nigerians workers into slavery.
The unionists …
The Emir of Anka, Attahiru Ahmad, has said that more than 100 miners in Anka and Maru Local Government Areas of Zamfara State have been abducted by bandits.
He spoke in Gusau on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor visited Governor Bello Matawalle.
The Chairman of Zamfara Council of Chiefs disclosed that bandits also killed 10 persons during an invasion of a mining site.
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He said the incident occurred on March 2 but was overshadowed by the abduction of Jangebe schoolgirls.
Ahmad lamented …
Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Wednesday suggested ways the Federal Government can resolve the challenge of banditry in the North.
Gumi said the Federal Government should adopt the non-kinetic approach in tackling banditry and insecurity in the Northern part of the country.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmen, the cleric explained that the use of kinetic force was responsible for the current insecurity issue in the North.
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He stressed that bandits feel, ‘everybody is against them,’ hence they are vicious and aggressively fighting for survival.
…According to Gumi: ‘Honestly
A member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, has warned that unless the economy grows by, at least, 7% to 8% percent yearly in the next five to 10 years, the country risks multidimensional poverty, debt crisis, and heightened insecurity.
According to him although Nigeria has the biggest gross domestic product (GDP) in Africa, it needs to attract both domestic and international capital to grow the current $446.543 billion GDP to $1.5 trillion by 2030 when the country’s population would be 250 million.
The economist, who spoke at a …
At least 105 have been left dead after serious explosions hit military camps in Equatorial Guinea wiping out neighbouring residential areas in the process.
Footage obtained from a broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.
Children and adults were seen being pulled from the rubble. There were chaotic scenes at the hospital in Bata, with the wounded lying on the floor awaiting treatment.
The country’s health ministry warned in a tweet that …
At least 39 migrants drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, as numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe continue to rise.
Rescue Operations ensured that there were at least 165 survivors from the mishaps
It was not immediately clear what caused both boats to capsize, but vessels leaving the North African coast for Europe are often heavily overloaded makeshift crafts, departing at night even in rough weather to avoid detection from the coastguard.
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Tunisian National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli said the ‘search
Brazilian Superstar Neymar who plays for Paris St-Germain has been ruled out of the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona.
The talented forward missed the first leg against his former side, which PSG won 4-1, with a thigh injury.
An official statement from PSG on Wednesday said: ‘Neymar returned to partial training with the squad last week and will continue to work back to fitness individually,’
Barcelona on the other hand will be without defenders Gerard Pique and Ronald Araujo for the match in Paris on Wednesday.
Pique sustained a knee injury in the Copa …
Recall that the the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had in the interview narrated the conversations around about how dark Archie’s (their newborn child) skin might be and how the child would not be given a royal title and police protection.
However, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Tuesday that the Palace ‘is saddened by the challenges faced by her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, and
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Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, China has launched a health certificate programme for Chinese international travellers, which is tagged ‘virus passports’.
The digital certificate, which shows a user’s vaccination status and virus test results, is available for Chinese citizens via a programme on the Chinese social media platform WeChat that was launched on Monday.
According to a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, the certificate is being rolled out ‘to help promote world economic recovery and facilitate cross-border travel’.
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However, although the certificate is meant for travel in and out of …
Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade has declared that Nigerian politicians do not have any iota of conscience when it comes to fulfilling their promises to the people who elected them.
Gov. Ayade made this assertion at the flag-off of enrolment into the states’ Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) in Calabar the state capital.
He berated politicians for taking advantage of the people who they run to for votes during elections.
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Following moves by the National Assembly to remove the national minimum wage from the exclusive to the concurrent legislative list, the Nigerian Labour Congress on Tuesday threatened to embark on a nationwide protest to protest the development.
In a statement on Tuesday, the NLC said the protest will hold in the 36 states’ Houses of Assembly and is expected to commence on Wednesday.
According to the statement, the protest will start from the Unity Fountain Abuja at 7:30 am to the National Assembly complex.
The Congress had after its emergency National Executive Council meeting in Abuja last Tuesday, vowed to …
