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Kogi State government and the organised labour have set up a 14-man committee to negotiate the implementation of the new minimum wage to workers...

Jennifer Y OmiloliOverwhelmed by crowd, Nigeria's Chief Justice (CJN) Tanko Muhammad has returned to his chambers, the CJN, which chairs seven outstanding governorship appeals says the chamber was too rowdy.The congestion was caused by supporters of the states of Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, Adamawa, Imo, Benue, and Plateau,...

The Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA), Sunday, debunked report of alleged earthquake tremor of 3.8 magnitude in Gwagwalada and Abaji, Federal Capital Territory satellite towns, FCT, Abuja, as allegedly captured by an OAU, IleIfe, Osun State Earthquake Monitoring Station on 10 January 2020.This was confirmed by a deputy director of the Department of Geophysics, NGSA, Abah Usman, while the suspected earthquake occurred during a visit to the cities.Usman said if there had been such ground shaking in that part of Abuja, the people would have been thrown into chaos and pandemonium, and the agency would definitely have alerted residents seriously.“For you to effectively record earth quake, it’s not something that you will obtain from one single equipment, and each...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, calling on the court to order the 36 state governors from 1999 to 2019 to publish a breakdown of pensions paid to former governors and other ex-officials under their respective state pension laws.SERAP further demands that the court issue an order for leave to apply for judicial review, and a mandamus order to guide and/or comply with the order.SERAP is also seeking a declaration that “the failure of the 36 state governors to provide SERAP with the requested information...

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Senate President Ahmad Lawan on his 61st birthday.The President, in a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special...

…Wants Perpetrators of LG Invasion ProsecutedAccord, one of Nigeria’s registered political parties has thrown its weight behind the decision of Governor Emeka Ihedioha to...

Detectives from the Lagos State Bariga Police Station have detained a 23-year-old Olowolayemo Sodiq, a notorious suspect of highway robbery and suspected cults leader...

A suspected mentally-deranged man in Surulere, Lagos, on Sunday, set a resident of the area ablaze after pouring petrol on him.The man, known in...

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as the Latter Rain Assembly, said on Sunday that he never asked the President Buhari to pick or choose his successor.In a short address in his church, the cleric said after the controversy that trailed his nationwide address on January 5, clarification became important.He said he believed firmly that accurate succession in a democracy could only be achieved through free and fair elections, contrary to insinuations or misunderstandings that he asked Buhari to pick out his successor.He said, “My use of the word ‘succession’ has drawn curious reactions from various quarters. Apparently, and without my...

By Jennifer YusufThe Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has congratulated the King of Fuji Music, Olu-Omo Olasunkanmi Ayinde-Marshal, on his selection as...