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Workers Inability To Meet Basic Needs Worries ILO, Advocates Living Wages

14.02.2025

Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Mr. Gilbert Houngbo, has expressed worry over the inability of workers to meet essential basic needs with their take home pay, after working not less than 50 hours in a week. Speaking at the 3rd Annual Labour Adjudication and Arbitration Forum (LAAF) themed ‘Labour Adjudication and Appellate Jurisdiction:...

MTN Raises Call Rate, SMS Charges

14.02.2025

The nation’s largest telecoms company, MTN Nigeria, has raised the call rate on its pulse bundle to N13.8 per minute from N7.8 per minute, which represents a 76.92 per cent increase. This forms part of the telecoms operators’ upward review of prices following the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approval of a 50 per cent tariff...

DHQ: Troops Denied Oil Thieves N646m Crime Proceeds In One Week

14.02.2025

In the last one week, troops conducting operations against economic sabotage in the South South general area, recovered 643,227 litres of stolen crude and other illegally-refined products worth about N646,189,690.00, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) revealed yesterday. During the period under review also, fighting forces sustained aggressive postures across the various theatres of operation, resulting in...

Students Protest Power Disconnection From Hostels

14.02.2025

University of Ibadan (UI) medical students studying at the University College Hospital (UCH) yesterday protested against the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC)’s disconnecting of power from their hostels. This came despite the Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu’s Monday meeting with the management of UCH and the IBEDC, where he promised that electricity would be restored...

Shettima Restates FG’s Dedication To Workers’ Welfare, Wage Reforms

14.02.2025

Vice President Kashim Shettima has reaffirmed the Nigerian government’s dedication to the welfare of members of the organised labour, inclusive economic policies, and wage reforms. According to the Vice President, the President was committed to a thriving workforce and an efficient labour ecosystem. Speaking yesterday during a meeting with a delegation led by the visiting...

Loan Controversy: Onasanya Appeared In Court To Clear Name – Lawyer

14.02.2025

In a determined effort to prove his innocence and clear his name, Dr. Bisi Onasanya, the former Group Managing Director of First Bank, yesterday appeared before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke at the Federal High Court in Lagos. Onasanya, alongside former First Bank Chairman Oba Otudeko; a Director at Honeywell Group, Soji Akintayo, and a firm, Anchorage...

Customs Hands Over 3,897 Seized Arms, Ammunition To NCCOSALW

14.02.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed 3,897 arms and ammunition to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW). At the handover yesterday, Comptroller General of Customs Adewale Adeniyi said 1,599 arms and 2,298 rounds of ammunition were handed over. Adeniyi explained that the seized arms and ammunition were...

Structured, Independent Adjudication System Key To Industrial Peace, Economic Growth – NECA

14.02.2025

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has said a well structured and independent adjudication system as well as swift, impartial, and fair decisions delivered by Courts and arbitration mechanisms were key to industrial peace and economic growth. President and Chairman of Council NECA, Dr. Ifeanyi Okoye made this known at the 3rd Annual Labour Adjudication...

Magistrate Court Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Dele Farotimi

14.02.2025

A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state, has dropped the defamation case against human rights activist, Dele Farotimi by Chief Afe Babalola. The case was filed by the police after a complaint from a prominent lawyer, Babalola in December 2024. Farotimi was accused of making statements that allegedly defamed Bobalola. Chief Magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun dismissed...

Idahosa Urges Religious Leaders To Help Drive Devt

14.02.2025

The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Hon Dennis Idahosa has solicited the assistance of religious leaders to help drive development in the State. He stated that with their active participation in state affairs and also through prayers, clerics could ensure that dividends of democracy were spread across the nooks and crannies of the state. Idahosa...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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