Minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare, has said members of the National Youth Service Corps will benefit from the new minimum wage of N30,000. “Next week the DG NYSC will provide details of the new allowee for the Youth Corp members after a full briefing from the Ministries of Finance And MYSD,” Dare said […]

Full payment of the new minimum wage to Nigerian workers takes effect from April 18, 2019. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo issued the directive yesterday in Abuja. The approval followed an earlier agreement between organised labour and the Federal Government on the consequential adjustments. In the adjustments agreed […]

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The Niger State government on Tuesday said that it is partnering with UNICEF to eliminate corporal punishment in public and private schools across the state. Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Education, said this during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Minna. Aliyu made this known after inaugurating a […]

Nigeria’s corrections services, the government agency in charge of prisons in the country, Tuesday said it’s controller-general has no plan to effect the arrest Fisayo Soyombo, a journalist whose undercover stories exposed the depth of corruption in Nigerian police cells and prison. A spokesperson for the Corrections Service OF Enobore said in a statement on […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday vowed to enforce the total implementation of the new national minimum wage once the issue of consequential adjustments has been settled with the states. Labour threatened that with the signing into law of the new minimum wage, any state that violated its provisions would be sued. The president of […]

The Adamawa/Taraba Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested 15 suspects for re-bagging foreign rice to sell as local rice. The Controller in charge of Adamawa/Taraba Command, Mr Kamardeen Olumoh, who was briefing newsmen on Tuesday on the development, said the suspects were arrested in a warehouse in Yola. Olumoh said that the suspects […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday has ordered the temporary forfeiture of 23 properties linked to a former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. The judge Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo ordered the forfeiture while ruling on a motion filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In the suit, the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday evening arrived Sochi, Russia, ahead of Russia – Africa Economic Forum fixed for between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25. State House correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) monitoring the presidential trip reports that presidential aircraft conveying the president and some members of his entourage landed at Sochi International […]

Despite a yearly allocation for new vehicles, the presidency has claimed that some of them being used for daily operations in the State House are old since they were purchased as far back as 1999. The Permanent Secretary, Mr. Jalal Arabi, who led a team of officials to appear before the House of Representatives Committee […]

Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has faulted the court ruling, which ordered the interim forfeiture of two of his properties in Ikoyi, Lagos State. He said the court must have been misled into granting the order, as neither him nor his lawyers were aware of any application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) […]

A journalist whose undercover stories exposed the depth of corruption in Nigerian police cells and prison may be arrested by the Nigerian authorities. The first instalment of the three-part investigation by Fisayo Soyombo, a former editor of The Cable and a contributor to Al Jazeera, detailed how Nigerian policemen “pervert the course of justice in […]