South Korean President Moon Jae-in sacked his top two economic officials on Friday, the government said, as the world’s 11th-largest economy struggles with slowing growth, rising unemployment and persistent income gaps. Finance minister Kim Dong-yeon and presidential chief of staff…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), are feeding at public expense. The former vice-president also said the two leaders collect hardship allowances of 50…
Organised Labour on Wednesday reacted to the position of the Presidency and the Federal Government that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to accede to the proposal of a N30,000 National Minimum Wage for Nigerian workers. Labour’s position is coming against…
A cross section of civil servants in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for receiving the report on the new minimum wage for workers. Some of the workers, who spoke with the News Agency of…
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has assured Nigerians in his country of freedom to operate their businesses without harassment. Akufo-Addo said this on Wednesday while receiving President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Envoy to Ghana, led by Foreign Affairs Minister, Geofrey Onyeama.…
The Federal Government has faulted a report credited to the United States Department of Agriculture, World Markets and Trade where Nigeria was said to have imported three million metric tonnes of rice this year. Specifically, the document had stated that…
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) affirmed yesterday. In an exclusive interview in Abuja, NLC president,…
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…
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,…
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…
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja appealed to Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned strike. He urged labour to consider what his government inherited and what it was doing with fewer resources to put the economy in the…
The identities of the states standing against the N30,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers has been revealed. The country is at present sitting on industrial powder keg over the N30, 000 new national minimum wage recommended by the Tripartite members…
The Federal Government has assured that its on-going empowerment project for petty traders would never be hijacked by fraudulent individuals. The empowerment programme, branded ‘Trader Money Project’, is taking place simultaneously across the 36 States of the Federation and the…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on the Federal Government to tighten its seat belt as yuletide approaches. The organization alerted the government to the annual phenomenon of artificial fuel scarcity which usually reared its ugly head at the…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Friday, Re-emphasized importance of entertainment industry to Nigeria’s economic growth, assuring that the sector would continue to enjoy support to maximize its potentials. The duo…
The Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has reopened the Osubi Airport in Warri, Delta State, to flights operations after a two-month closure. The redeployment of Air Traffic Controllers and aeronautical services yesterday brought the usual hustle and bustle to the…
For Nigeria to benefit from its advantageous central location within West Africa and realise its desire to become a regional air transportation hub, it must upgrade its airport facilities, according to President Muhammadu Buhari. He spoke at the official opening…
At a ceremony attended by Rivers State Governor, Minister of State for Aviation, Minister of Labour, and several other top government officials, President Buhari opened the new Port Harcourt international terminal. President Buhari with Governor Wike as he commissions Portharcourt…
Due to high cost of mobile data, over two billion people are said to have been cut off from the Internet. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), which revealed this, noted that more than 2.3 billion people live in countries…
The Federal Government will on Monday, October 15, 2018 begin the final verification and payment of entitlements to former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways. According to a statement by Paul Abechi, the special adviser on media and communications to…