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Jun

2024

Why We’ll Approve Purchase Of Presidential Jet – Akpabio

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash, Politics

Why We’ll Approve Purchase Of Presidential Jet – Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said the red chamber will approve funds for the purchase of a new presidential jet if requested by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking during plenary on Thursday, Akpabio, however, said he had not received any correspondence from the President requesting the Senate’s approval for a presidential jet. Akpabio spoke after a closed-door meeting of senators at the chambers which lasted for about an hour. The senators had cut short their recess which was supposed to elapse on July 2, 2024, and returned for an emergency session…

Jun

2024

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Better Minimum Wage Coming -Governors Assure Labour

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Labour, News Flash

Better Minimum Wage Coming – Governors Assure Labour The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has assured Nigerians and the organised labour that better minimum wage will result from ongoing negotiations. The governors had previously rejected the Federal Government’s proposal of N62,000, stating that some states would need to borrow money to pay salaries. Despite this, organised labour continues to demand a wage of N250,000. The governors chose to hold an emergency meeting after the Federal Executive Council postponed the minimum wage discussion on Tuesday to allow President Bola Tinubu to conduct broader consultations. According to a communiqué released after an emergency meeting…

Jun

2024

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Accommodation Crisis: Late Emir Of Kano’s Daughter, Zainab Calls For Gov Otti, Sanusi’s Intervention

News Flash, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Kano

Accommodation Crisis: Late Emir Of Kano’s Daughter, Zainab Calls For Gov Otti, Sanusi’s Intervention Accommodation Crisis: Late Emir Of Kano’s Daughter, Zainab Calls For Gov Otti, Sanusi’s InterventionZainab Jummai Ado-Bayero, the daughter of the late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, has cried to Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, over the threat to evict her, her mother and brother from a Lagos hospitality accommodation. She claimed that ever since the death of her father, she and her siblings had not had access to her father’s estate and inheritance.“We tried to plead with notable men,…

Jun

2024

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Deaf-Blind – Don Norman Obinna Needs Help And Support: A Rejoinder To Abia’s Nemesis Not Messiah

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, News Flash

Deaf-Blind - Don Norman Obinna Needs Help and Support: A Rejoinder to Abia's Nemesis not Messiah. 'When a handshake goes beyond the elbow, then we know it has turned to another thing'. - Prof. Chinualumogu Achebe. The attention seeking Broken Record turned 'Shattered Record', Don Norman Obinna could not even acknowledge the mandate of Abia People freely given to Governor Alex Otti in his latest contradiction laced article; Otti: Abia Nemesis, not Messiah. He exposed his disconnection from the world around him. Don Norman Obinna as a Deaf-Blind needs help not mockery and his slot is secured in the Special…

Jun

2024

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Yoruba Agenda Must Not Continue Under A New Sobriquet Of Southern Governors’ Forum

Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Politics

YORUBA AGENDA MUST NOT CONTINUE UNDER A NEW SOBRIQUET OF SOUTHERN GOVERNOR'S FORUM The Monday 24th meeting of the governor's of the Southeast, Southwest and Southsouth was expected by its conveners to start a new agenda setting for the southern part of Nigeria as it struggles to free its neck from the heavy jackboot of the political North. The meeting was well attended by almost all the governors except one or two that sent their deputies. The good attendance aptly captured the importance of calling the roundtable to enact a proactive scriptural response to desperate moments in the the life…

Jun

2024

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Minimum Wage: Approve N250,000 Demand To Match Inflationary Trend – Labour Tells Tinubu

Economy, Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, Labour, News Flash

Minimum Wage: Approve N250,000 Demand To Match Inflationary Trend – Labour Tells Tinubu Organised Labour has pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to prove his love for Nigerian workers and approve its demand of N250,000 minimum wage to reflect the present inflationary trend in the country. Speaking to Vanguard, a member of the organised labour negotiating team in the Tripartite Committee of the New National Minimum Wage and President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, accused state governors of stalling efforts at achieving a reasonable wage for public workers. He said: “If you are an employer…

Jun

2024

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Why There’s Persistent Insecurity In Nigeria – President Tinubu

Crime, Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash, Presidency

Why There’s Persistent Insëcurity In Nigeria – Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has described the lingering insecurity bedevilling Nigeria, particularly the North West region of the country, as inherited security compromises. The president added that the banditry and insurgency facing the country is a likelihood of historical injustices meted out to the adverse victims of conflicts. Reflecting on his inaugural speech one year ago, Tinubu noted that “we promised to make Nigeria safer, and this aim has been our topmost priority since we came to office.” Tinubu said on Monday at a two-day security and peace summit organised by the North-West…

Jun

2024

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Sokoto Government Breaks Silence Over Alleged ‘Plot To Dethrone Sultan’

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Culture, News Flash, North Central

Sokoto Govt Breaks Silence Over Alleged ‘Plot To Dethrone Sultan’ GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Sokoto government has denied allegations by MURIC that it’s plotting to depose His Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III. The state Commissioner for information and societal reorientation Hon. Sambo Bello Danchadi in a swift reaction on Tuesday said the state government has no plan whatsoever to dethrone the revered monarch, while describing the allegation by MURIC as false and baseless. Sambo explained that the law guiding the appointment and disposition of traditional rulers in the state had not been changed or even…

Jun

2024

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It’ll Take Decades To Eradicate Banditry In Northwest Nigeria – Sultan of Sokoto

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Crime, Mishap, Security

It’ll Take Decades To Eradicate Banditry In Northwest Nigeria – Sultan The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar, yesterday, declared that it will take decades for the north-west to be free from the menacing security challenge. The Sultan spoke in Katsina at the ‘Inaugural North West Peace and Security Summit’. In his address, the Sultan said: “What we must do is challenge these bandits because we all know the consequences of banditry and insurgency on our lives. “But it will take decades to get out of it if at all we get out of it. We all know the consequences and…

Jun

2024

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NLC Rejects Call To Decentralize Minimum Wage Negotiations; ‘Governors Will Basterdize It’

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‘Governors Will Bastardise It,’ NLC Rejects Call To Decentralise Minimum Wage Negotiations The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has opposed some politicians’ calls for decentralised minimum wage negotiations. Adebayo Aribatise, secretary of NLC in Oyo State, spoke with journalists on Sunday in Ibadan and said decentralising minimum wage negotiations would be at workers’ disadvantage in some states. Some politicians had recently called for decentralised minimum wage negotiations. One of them, Kayode Fayemi, stressed the need for allowing states to conduct wage negotiations with their labour unions, separate from the federal government. Mr Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti, said the position…