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Labour Disagrees With Ngige, Says FG Can Fund Demand

Labour Disagrees With Ngige, Says FG Can Fund Demand

October 5, 2019 1:28 pm

Organised Labour has faulted the pronouncement of Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige that the federal government would only be able to pay the minimum wage if it retrenched some workers.

Ngige declared last week that the federal government would not be able to meet the demand of organised labour on the percentage for consequential adjustment of the ₦30,000 new minimum wage owing to dwindling revenue.

Reacting to the statement, Labour said Ngige was merely expressing a personal opinion when he said that the number of workers in the federal government’s payroll was very high and the …

LGA polls: Certificate forgery rocks Niger APC

2019 Election: FGN, APC demand apology from Atiku, PDP

September 13, 2019 1:10 am
  • Your gloating won’t last, opposition party replies

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, Thursday taunted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for losing their bid to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the election.

The duo urged them to apologise to Nigerians for challenging the president’s declaration as the winner of the election, adding that Buhari will win the former vice president even at the World Court or the Supreme Court.

But the …

123 men from Jigawa sue Lagos state, demand ₦1bn

123 men from Jigawa sue Lagos state, demand ₦1bn

September 3, 2019 12:37 am

The Lagos state government has been sued for unlawful detention by the 123 men from Jigawa State who were detained by the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit) on Monday.

The men are demanding N1 billion for illegal detention.

The men who were coming from Jigawa State were intercepted along Moshalashi Road, Agege alongside 48 motorcycles in a truck, but were later released after investigation.

They however went to court Monday to allege illegal detention in suit filed by Abdullahi Yakubu on behalf of himself and the other men before the Federal High Court, Lagos …

Undocumented migrants demand right to remain in Paris

Undocumented migrants demand right to remain in Paris

July 13, 2019 1:40 am

Hundreds of undocumented migrants calling themselves “black vests” stormed the Pantheon monument in central Paris on Friday demanding the right to remain in France.

Police on the scene told Reuters an estimated 200 to 300 protesters, mostly from West Africa, managed to get into the Left Bank mausoleum where national heroes including Voltaire and Victor Hugo are buried.

“We will remain here until the last one of us has been given documents,” a leaflet given out by an organizer read.

Young men were chanting “black vests” – …

Fulani Dominance: Yoruba elders in diaspora take case to UN

Farmers, attacked by herders, demand ₦284bn compensation

July 13, 2019 12:08 am

As farmers across the country continue to count their losses arising from the destruction of their crops and farmlands by herders, cultivators in eight of the hardest-hit states claim that about N284 billion worth of products were destroyed.

They want the federal government to pay them compensation to cover the losses.

But Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says both sides (farmers and herders) have suffered losses, adding that the federal executive council approved N27.4 billion as intervention funds for states affected by conflicts, insecurity and flooding.

Farmers’ associations in Anambra, Benue, Delta, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau and Taraba states told The …

MTN chief faults AGF on $2b tax demand

March 12, 2019 7:54 am

MTN Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rob Shuter yesterday faulted the demand for $2 billion cash by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF).

It accused AGF Abubakar Malami, of “playing games” over the demand for the cash, which the government said was in tax arrears from the telecoms giant.

Shuter spoke at a conference call where MTN’s 2018 annual results were presented to the country’s executives and stakeholders.

Malami had last September written to MTN Nigeria, demanding the payment of $2 billion in tax arrears.

He broke the cash down to a 10-year period for import duties, …

BREAKING: Shehu Sani, demand cancellation of Kaduna Polls

February 25, 2019 7:05 am

Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone, Shehu Sani has called for cancellation of elections in Kaduna State, particularly in the Kaduna Central zone.

Senator Shehu Sani is the candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) in the Senatorial election.

Addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, Senator Sani said, the Saturday election was marred with irregularities across the zone, ranging from over voting, ballot stuffing, intimidation of voters, and connivance with security agencies to rig in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sani said, himself and his party have compiled cases of irregularities across the zone and written to …

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