NANS, group threaten protests, marketers want PEF scrapped Fuel scarcity, at the weekend, resurfaced in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, following the reported hike in pump price of petroleum products by the Federal Government. It was learnt that some filling stations were dispensing petrol at between N180 and N220 per litre, while racketeers sold the […]
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The ploy to remove the minimum wage from the Exclusive List seems dead on arrival with critical stakeholders promising to ensure it does not see the light, writes Tony Akowe The minimum wage is as old as the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was founded in 1919. The 1919 ILO Constitution, in its preamble, notes […]
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Sheikh Gumi, left, handing items to a bandit’s leader at a meeting By Mike Kebonkwu I would like to start this discourse by stating some basic wrongful assumptions that have heightened the ethnic tension of north-south dichotomy and the growing animosity. First is the assumption that the Fulani herdsmen are the bandits behind the kidnappings, […]
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The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has faulted a claim by the Chief Judge (CJ) of Ondo State, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu that he was working with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and others to remove her from office. Justice Akeredolu made the allegation in a suit she filed before the […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries are to appear before the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee on Friday or have a warrant of arrest issued against them, the Lower Chamber has said. The national companies are to appear in the investigative hearing by the committee to answer for their financial operations, […]
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Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru has asked troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole to be ready to end the Boko Haram insurgency. The COAS spoke on Sunday at the Sector II Headquarters of Operation Lafiya Dole in Damaturu as part of his operational visit to the Northeast. He said he was proud […]
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Pen Cinema, Agege Flyover By Damian Odoemena I thank the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the new Pen Cinema Bridge which was officially opened on March 5. The Oba Ogunji Road that the new bridge joins also received attention, giving the road an expressway look. But the joy of this beautiful infrastructure also […]
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But for the quick intervention of security operatives, another set of 307 students in Kaduna State would have become the latest victims of bandits/kidnappers. The bandits stormed the Government Science Secondary School, Ikara in kara Local Government Area in the late hours of Saturday but were outsmarted by the pupils who “utilised the security warning […]
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By Ahmed Adamu It was not a surprise the real price of petrol in Nigeria shot up to N212 per litre. In fact, it could still reach N300 per litre depending on the market situation, particularly crude oil price and exchange rate. If there are no sufficient local refining capacities, there are going to be […]
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Family of six among dead Troops foil kidnap attempt on 307 pupils in Kaduna Gunmen were on the prowl on Sunday, killing six in Osun State, one policeman and his friend in Bauchi State, as well as a traveller in Ekiti State. In Kaduna, troops foiled the attempt by suspected bandits to abduct more than […]
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