NAPTIP Calls for Action on Trafficking Regulations Compliance
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has called for more concerted efforts to ensure the implementation and compliance of trafficking regulations, to enable the issuance of clearance certificates for various purposes, including educational excursions and recruitment activities. Its Director general Fatima Waziri Azi, represented by Director of Research and Programme […]
NLC presses FG to pay N615,000 minimum wage
The ongoing negotiations for a new minimum wage have deadlocked following the inability of the Federal Government and organised labour to reach a consensus. The President’s media aide, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in an interview, faulted workers’ insistence on the N615,000 minimum wage, updating that the government and labour unions had not agreed on the amount […]
FG Gives Fresh Condition for Issuance Of Gas Licence
Following the aftermath of the gas explosion which claimed a life in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital last week, the Federal Government has said it would stop granting licences to gas companies with no capacity to build pipelines for gas distribution. Minister of State For Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, who stated this when he […]
Police arrests suspected kidnapper in Kogi
A suspected notorious kidnapper, Abubakar Ali Damina, accused of terrorizing the communities of Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area, has been apprehended. Damina, 43, was captured during a joint security operation at Ofodo village, near Igabada in Kogi State. Found in possession of a single-barreled Dane gun, charms, a gun firing cap, and local bullets, the suspect, […]
FG assures national living wage to Nigerian workers
The Federal Government says it is committed to giving Nigerian workers a national living wage. Speaking at the 2024 Workers Day Celebration at the Eagle Square, Abuja, President Bola Tinubu represented by his Vice, KashimShettima, said the government is open to receive the recommendations of the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage, while […]
FG starts paying over N2b compensation for demolished properties
The Federal Government has begun giving out the sum of 2.75 billion naira as compensation for demolition of properties to their owners from chainage zero to three kilometres along Oniru Beach. At the Flag off of the compensation, the minister of works, Dave Umahi noted that the compensation will be done in phases, urging affected […]
UK warns as sextortion scam cases doubled
An unprecedented alert on sextortion scams targeting teenagers has been sent out to British teachers after the number of reported cases doubled in a year. Sextortion is blackmail where criminals threaten to release nude or semi-nude photos of someone, either real or fake, unless the victim pays them. Officials at the United Kingdom’s National Crime […]
Prince Harry and Meghan to be in Nigeria next month
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tour Nigeria next month following an invitation by the country’s Chief Of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa. According to the Defence Spokesperson Tukur Gusau, the visit is to consolidate Nigeria’s stronghold at the Invictus game and the possibility of hosting the event in later years. Last year, Nigeria debuted […]
Nigeria on fuel shortage despite NNPC assured supplies
Queues for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol have continued to grow as the country faces a fresh round of fuel scarcity despite assurances by the (NNPC) Limited that it has resolved the cause of fuel shortages in the country. NNPC spokesman Olufemi Soneye had in a statement last week emphasised that the […]
FG rolls out designs for more federal roads
Minister of works, David Umahi has said that the Lagos/Calabar Coastal Highway is expected to circle the entire Nigeria in an additional road design proposal to be tendered before the Federal Executive Council. The minister made this known in Eleko Lagos, at the end of inspection of Section one of phase one of the coastal […]
