Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man accused of sending pipe bombs to critics of US President Donald Trump, appeared in a New York court Tuesday and was ordered held without bail. Sayoc, 56, appeared before a Manhattan federal court for just…
Cameroon’s 85-year-old President Paul Biya vowed Tuesday to pursue policies of decentralisation to address “frustrations and aspirations” in English-speaking regions hit by separatist unrest as he was sworn in for a seventh term in office. But he firmly ruled out…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says President Muhammadu Buhari has delivered on his campaign promises, and deserves to be voted for the second term. Mohammed said this on Tuesday in Abuja when he appeared on the…
The Ogun State Government has proposed N305 billion for the 2019 budget, Commissioner for Budget Planning, Ms. Adenrele Adesina said this, on Tuesday. The commissioner, who made this known at the 2018 Treasury Board Meeting, held at Obas Complex, Oke-Mosan,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed N30,000 minimum wage recommendation by Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage. President Buhari while responding said he was committed to having a new national minimum wage within the shortest time. He said the necessary machinery…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has removed over 300,000 names from its voters register, as at last week, as the Commission continued preparations for 2019 general election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he received…
United States High Commission Consul General John Bray has said an estimated $1.3billion American businesses in Nigeria are currently under threat. The threats, according to him, are coming from instability in exchange rate, policy inconsistency, poor electricity, dearth of infrastructure,…
They charged the federal government to engage the services of the Nigeria Railway Corporation to provide an alternative route to the gridlock situation. The six governors in the South West Governors Forum have jointly expressed concerns over the gruelling Apapa-Lagos…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the Federal Government’s promises as cheap, saying its members would not be swayed by them. ASUU President Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi said this during an interview on a Lagos-based national television programme…
Organised Labour and the Organised Private Sector had maintained that N30,000 was the amount recommended as new minimum wage at the committee’s last meeting After a long drawn and heated meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage, the Federal…