The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned former Oyo State Governor Rashidi Ladoja for allegedly diverting the state’s funds. The re-arraignment followed an amendment to the charge by the commission. Ladoja was charged with converting N4.7 billion from the state treasury to his personal use. He was re-arraigned along with his former Commissioner for Finance Waheed Akanbi ... Read More »
Emerging reports have claimed that the minister of labour and productivity, Chris Ngige, declared the federal government has rejected the N22,500 minimum wage proposal by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). Ngige who made this known on Wednesday, October 31, during a phone interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily said criticised the governors for the figure saying N22,500 is even below ... Read More »
Ex-governor: I’m eminently qualified to be running mate Atiku Abubakar got yesterday a complex challenge on his presidential bid —he should drop running mate Peter Obi or lose. Some youths in the North visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo to table the knotty request. The Northern Youths Leaders Forum (NYLF) advised the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to ... Read More »
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential candidate of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has lost over 200,000 members of his Atiku Care Foundation as seven coordinators of the group from the North-West states defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC), declaring loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. The group which officially joined one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign ... Read More »
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has suspended till further notice, orientation course for the 2018 Batch C Stream I, scheduled to commence on Tuesday, following unfavorable security reports. A statement by Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the NYSC Director of Press, issued on Monday in Abuja, advised prospective corps members posted to the Kaduna state to remain at home until further ... Read More »
BREAKING: Ambode Hasn’t Committed Any Impeachable Offence, Says Lagos Assembly Speaker ….. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has not committed any impeachable offence,” he said. Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, has dismissed rumours of plans by the House to impeach Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of the state. He stated this during the plenary session of the House on ... Read More »
THE organised labour is spoiling for war with the Federal Government over the controversies surrounding the new National Minimum Wage and the decision of the government to adopt a “no work, no pay” posture to force workers from going on strike. Labour leaders are of the opinion that the Federal Government was deliberately sabotaging the plan to arrive at a ... Read More »
Bank customers have expressed gratitude to the Senate for its directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend the monthly Automated Teller Machine card maintenance fee imposed on users by commercial banks. The President, Bank Customers Association of Nigeria, Dr Uju Ogubunka, described the directive as a good development for the industry and bank customers using the facility. He ... Read More »
The United States Government has in Katsina State declared that it has no preferred Presidential candidate in the forth coming general elections in Nigeria next year, but that it prefers a transparent and violent free process that ensures the election of a candidate freely chosen by Nigerians The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr W Stuwart Symington who was represented by ... Read More »
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