Новости за 04.07.2024

THERE are pregnant indications that the national minimum saga will roll on for some time without conclusion. Organised labour has been agitating for an upward review of the minimum wage shortly after President Bola Tinubu cancelled petrol subsidies and merged the naira exchange rates. Hopes that the increment will coincide with the first anniversary of

The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, will today interrogate the suspended Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Lamuwa, who was accused of sexual harassment. The PUNCH reported that a few weeks ago, one Simisola Ajayi, through her lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), submitted a petition to the Office of the Head

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has stated it would not approve oil service companies with no proven capacity to execute projects. This was as the Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Felix Ogbe, described the Presidential Directive on Local Content Compliance Requirements as crucial for enhanced competitiveness and mitigation of risks regarding unqualified contractors.

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, presented the staff of office to the Onifiditi of Fiditi, in the Afijio Local Government Area, Oba Adekola-Oyelere. At a ceremony held at the Fiditi Grammar School, Fiditi, Makinde stressed that Oyelere’s emergence as the Onifiditi followed the normal process without any violation. Makinde said following the required

The Senate has scored the executive low in the implementation of the capital component of the 2024 budget, saying there is a need for the government to get Ministries, Department and Agencies of the Federal Government to implement the budget. The Senate on Wednesday also urged the Federal Government to intensify efforts in funding the

A group, the Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance, on Wednesday, formally submitted a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission against ex-governor Nasir El-Rufai. The group asked the anti-corruption agency to commence an immediate probe of El-Rufai towards his prosecution for alleged  N423bn theft. The petition by the group comes

The Federal Government will today (Thursday) meet the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions. The meeting to be held at the Office of the Minister of Education is aimed at forestalling a strike by the unions. The meeting is coming on the heels of the

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday, announced the suspension of his Senior Special Assistant on Civil Societies, Mr. Emmanuel Adebisi. Adebisi’s suspension was announced in a statement by the governor’s spokesman, Olawale Rasheed. The statement was silent on the reason for Adebisi’s suspension but said he would remain on suspension “pending the outcome of

Bandits have killed the eldest son of a judge of the Kaduna State Customary Court, identified as Janet Galadima, while demanding N300m ransom to free the judge and her three other children still being held. The Chief Executive Officer of the House of Justice, Gloria  Ballason, in a statement on Wednesday, said the judge and

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, on Wednesday, said governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers. Oyebanji said the NGF was only clamouring for fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual states to pay. Organised labour

A group, the Coalition of Rivers State Leaders of Thought has faulted calls for the declaration of a state of emergency, describing it as not only uncalled for, but unacceptable. The coalition noted that anyone calling for an emergency rule in the state merely because of the ongoing political crisis, which has not gone beyond

The governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has inspected the ongoing construction of the Edo State College of Health Sciences and Technology, as the institution prepares to receive an accreditation team ahead of the commencement of academic activities. Obaseki led other members of the state’s Executive Council to the institution to assess the level of

Two non-governmental organisations, Women Organised for Mentorship and Advocacy Network and the Eunice Nnachi Women Advocacy Foundation, have begun grassroots sensitisation to avert the ongoing cholera scourge ravaging parts of the country. In their maiden programme on Monday, the groups took their sensitisation campaign to Igbogene community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State,

Sterling One Foundation has announced the Development Bank of Nigeria as one of the partners for the 2024 Africa Social Impact Summit. The foundation, which is a co-convener of the summit, disclosed that in a statement issued recently in Lagos. “With this partnership, DBN joins an impressive list of partners, including private-sector organisations, international development

The Federal Government has promised to support Aradel Energy in its drive to increase oil production in Nigeria. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, stated that during his recent visit to PML 14 in Ogbele, Rivers State, a facility solely owned and operated by Aradel Energy. Lokpobiri, who commended Aradel for

The Chief Commercial Officer of Kaduna Electric, Ahmed Sanusi, has described the transfer of prepaid meters from one location to another as illegal.  He threatened that the Disco would do everything to arrest and prosecute those committing energy theft. Sanusi made the assertion recently in Kaduna when he led a team comprising management staff and

The strategic partnership between the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board and Nedogas that led to the completion of the Kwale Gas Gathering appears to be a testimony that the Federal Government is determined to collaborate with stakeholders to end gas flaring in Nigeria, writes DARE OLAWIN For almost six decades, Nigeria has been flaring

Sometime in 2022, we (some friends and I) were driving through a village in Kenya when I saw this giant billboard with the face of a presidential candidate named William Ruto. The tagline was, “Every hustle matters!” I thought it was a funny slogan for a presidential candidate, and a friend (who would vote Ruto)

The member of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly representing Ibiono Ibom state constituency, Mr. Moses Essien, has raised the alarm over the economic hazards posed by corked oil wells to some communities in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of the state. He said that the oil wells were discovered many years ago by

Barely two weeks before the conduct of local government elections in Delta State, the Delta State chapter of the Obidient Elders’ Council has tasked the state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, to conduct a credible election, noting that rigged election is worse than a military coup. The Chairman of the Obidient Elders’ Council, Mr Chris Biose, who

The Director-General, All Progressives Congress Campaign Organization for the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, on Tuesday said that the party’s candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa, can win the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. Urhoghide, who spoke to journalists in Benin, noted that their performance

Ahead of the forthcoming Local Government election in Delta State, the Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities has called on the governor of the state, Sheriff Oborevwori, to set aside councillorship slots for PLWDs The group made the call at a two-day voters’ education seminar for ‘Persons Living with Disability for Elections Inclusiveness,’ organized

The incessant labour union strike, from the Academic Staff Union of Universities to the Nigeria Labour Congress, has become a regular staple in Nigeria’s litany of underdevelopment characteristics. And the industrial disputes usually result from labour unions’ reactions to what is perceived as government’s recurring insensitivity to the plight of workers in the dynamics of

Omotayo Adekolure, brother of the late Glory Adekolure, a final year student of the University of Benin who was raped and killed in Benin, Edo State, on June 13, 2024, in this interview with ADEYINKA ADEDIPE, says the family has yet to get over the death of the promising girl. Excerpts: Can you recount your

Following the controversy associated with the proposed bill seeking the creation of Anioma State, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, in Delta State, Prof. Leroy Edozien, has advised President Bola Tinubu to write his name in gold by creating an additional state to address the marginalisation in the South-East zone. The senator representing Delta