Nigeria Ready To host African Central Bank, Tinubu To AU Leaders
President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria is ready to host the African central bank, in line with the vision of the Abuja Treaty. ALSO READ: Bandits Kill Six, Abduct Ex-CBN Staff In Kaduna The treaty lays the foundation for the establishment of an African common market. It was adopted on June 3, 1991 and entered into […]
Bandits Kill Six, Abduct Ex-CBN Staff In Kaduna, Gov Calls For Aggressive Military Operations
Six people were reportedly killed in Kwasam, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, while five others, including a retired director of CBN, Mr Zakariya Markus, his brother, and the brother’s wife, were abducted. ALSO READ: Court Orders AGF To Re-Open Prosecution Of Late Dele Giwa’s Killers The bandits also injured two other people during […]
Food security: CISLAC, Others Hold Retreat To Proffer Solutions To Food, Nutrition, Systems Transformation.
By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), National Economic Summit Group (NESG), E-Health Africa, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), through a Third-Party Advocacy Campaign (TPAC), organised a two-day Retreat for relevant committees of NASS. The theme of the Retreat was “Retreat on Food Fortification, Workforce Nutrition, and Food […]
Nigeria in ICU – Tambuwal
By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto SENATOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said that the country is in Intensive Care Unit(ICU) urging leaders and Nigerians to go back to the drawing board, tell themselves the truth and resuscitate the country against current happenings. He said Nigerians should check their humanity to rediscover themselves, redeem and resuscitate the country […]
Court Orders AGF To Re-Open Prosecution Of Late Dele Giwa’s Killers
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to re-open the investigation and prosecution of those who murdered the founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, in 1986. ALSO READ: Labour Declares 2days Mass Protest Nationwide Delivering judgment, Justice Ekwo held the AGF […]
Hardship: Labour Declares 2days Mass Protest Nationwide
The Nigeria Labour Congress said it has put machinery in place for a two-day nationwide protest slated for February 27 and February 28, 2024. ALSO READ: Super Eagles Move 14 Places Up In FIFA Ranking After AFCON The NLC’s National President, Joe Ajaero, said the protest would begin a week after the expiration of the […]
We Can No Longer Continue To Subsidise Electricity – Minister
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has declared that the country can no longer continue to subsidise electricity. ALSO READ: Union Protests Ban On Sachet Alcohol In Abuja According to the minister, Nigeria must begin to move towards a cost-effective tariff model, adding that the country is currently indebted to the tune of 1.3 trillion […]
The 1981 General Strike and the Struggle for Minimum Wage – By Izielen Agbon
“Life is nasty, brutish, and short.” Thomas Hobbes Life has become nasty, brutish, and short for Nigerian workers in 2024. Life is now full of hunger, pains, insecurity and poverty. Unemployment, underemployment and inflation are high. According to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), “the Food inflation rate in December 2023 was 33.93% on a […]
Union Protests Ban On Sachet Alcohol In Abuja
Members of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has given the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) 14 days to reverse its ban on sachet alcohol. ALSO READ: President Tinubu Honours Super Eagles With National Awards The association, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), issued […]
President Tinubu Honours Super Eagles With National Awards
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, met with the National team, the Super Eagles, where he announced national awards (Member of the Order of the Niger, MON) to each of them. ALSO READ: Mama Boko Haram, Two Others To Spend 10 years In Jail Over N40m Fraud The honours bestowed on them also included flats in […]