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By Victor Young & Luminous Jannamike The struggle for an N30,000 minimum wage for the least paid workers in Nigeria by organised labour appears to be nearing a joyous end as the National Assembly has […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday launched a micro pension plan for self-employed Nigerians. The launch took place at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. Mr Buhari launched the programme by supervising the registration of a […]

The federal government has concluded plans to increase revenue by introducing new taxes, Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, told lawmakers on Wednesday. Mrs Ahmed spoke at the public hearing on the 2019 budget organised by […]

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says some states in the country now enjoy “almost 24 hours” of electricity supply. Speaking on Wednesday at a programme on Channels Television, the minister said the […]

The founder of Daar Communications PLC, Raymond Dokpesi, on Wednesday said he was invited by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on issues related to his international passport. Mr Dokpesi speaking with journalists at the gate […]

Theresa May has promised Tory MPs she will quit if they back her Brexit deal. She told backbench Tories: “I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what […]

A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operated by Southwest Airlines made an emergency landing Tuesday after experiencing an engine problem as it was being ferried from Florida to California, the US Federal Aviation Agency said. “The […]

Parents at a primary school in Birmingham have held a fresh protest calling for lessons about gay relationships to be stopped. Demonstrators gathered outside Anderton Park School calling for the headteacher to stand down and […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has claimed that 32 individuals and corporate organizations in the country looted over N1.3 trillion between 2011 and 2015. He […]

By Kazeem Ugbodaga The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu and the Director-General, Department of State Service, DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi to urgently investigate […]

Residents of Satellite Town in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State have petitioned the Federal Government over the indiscriminate siting of tank farms and the blockage of water channels in the area. The […]

The eight-year-old Nigerian chess champion, Tanitoluwa Adewunmi, and his family have moved into a new apartment, courtesy of goodwill donations after his success story went viral. According to the New York Times, the young Tani, […]

A building on Kakawa street in Lagos Island, has collapsed, bringing to three the total number of building which has collapsed in the local government in the last two weeks. On March 13, a three-storey […]

Oladipo Okpeseyi and Temitope Adebayo, two Nigerian lawyers hired for the return of $321 million Abacha loot from Switzerland, have been secretly paid their controversial fees, TheCable can report. Although they were initially to be […]

Iyabo Toluhi (nee Adesanmi), the elder sister of the late Pius Adesanmi, on Saturday described the death of his brother as a great loss to the family and community. Mrs Toluhi, spoke in an interview […]

Today, March 24, makes it exactly two decades since Nigeria lost one of its foremost heroic figures, the late Major-General AbdulBaki Babatunde Idiagbon, to the cold hands of death. He was 56 years old. General […]

Suleiman Adamu, the Minister for Water Resources, has said Nigeria is set to become the world’s most notorious country in open defecation. Adamu stated this on Saturday while speaking on the theme: ‘Water, Sanitation and […]

Gboyega Oyetola, Governor of Osun State, has insisted that he remains Governor of the state until all legal issues surrounding his election are sorted out. He said this in response to a judgment by the […]