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Minimum wage review: Return to negotiation table with FG – NECA tells Labour

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has called on the organised labour to return to the negotiation table on the planned minimum wage review. The...

Rivers: Imminent probe behind commissioners’ resignations – RSDG

The Rivers Social Democratic Group, RSDG, has claimed that the recent resignation of five commissioners in Rivers State is linked to the upcoming probe...

Osun govt appoints, approves elevation of 17 monarchs

The Osun State Government has approved the appointments of Prince Oyeleye Saheed Akorede as the next Gbelepawo of Gbelepawo in Egbedore Local Government Area...

NAFDAC calls for coordinated drug wholesale centres in Aba

The Director General, National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye has called for the establishment of coordinated wholesale centres...

Ex-Senator, Michael Onunkun is dead

A Second Republic Senator in the old Ondo State, Michael Onunkun, popularly known as MAE Onunkun is dead. Onunkun was aged 98. He represented Ondo West...

Alleged marginalization: Igbo group seeks Nigeria’s recolonisation

The Igbo-Biafra Nationalists Movement, IBN, has called for the recolonisation of Nigeria. The convener of the movement, Mazi Uche Mefor, said this in a statement...

Reps threaten to cancel NRC’s PPP arrangements, concessions, summons Transport Minister

The House of Representatives Committee investigating the Public Private Partnership and Concessions programmes of the federal government has threatened to cancel all leases and...

5 Israeli soldiers killed, 7 injured in Gaza by errant Israeli tank shelling

Five Israeli soldiers were killed and seven others injured by errant Israeli tank fire in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The...

Vladimir Putin arrives in China to meet Xi Jinping as West watches with growing concern

China has rolled out the red carpet to welcome Russian president Vladimir Putin for a potentially consequential and heavily symbolic state visit that will be closely watched in the...

Coal no longer accounts for majority of India’s energy capacity in major landmark for renewables

The share of coal in India’s power sector dropped to less than half for the first time in decades, indicating a major milestone in the South Asian...

Massive manhunt in France for prison-break gang that gunned down officers

A massive manhunt was underway in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and...

Ukraine’s Zelensky cancels foreign visits as Putin’s forces advance around Kharkiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled all his upcoming foreign trips as he looks to concentrate on Russia’s advance in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. It comes as US...

Israel’s defence minister hits out at Netanyahu over post-war Gaza plan

Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant has publicly hit out at prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for a post-war Gaza – vowing to oppose any long-term military...

Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico shot in ‘politically motivated’ attempted assassination

Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico was left fighting for his life after a shooting described by government officials as an assassination attempt. The incident took place in Handlova,...

Senate advances bill to establish federal polytechnic in Ebonyi

Abill for an act to establish the Federal Polytechnic in Onueke, Ezza LGA of Ebonyi, scaled second reading in the Senate on Wednesday. This followed...

LAGESC nabs two men for illegally renting out govt. building

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) says it has arrested two men who allegedly and illegally rented a government building located within three...

Sanwo-Olu says Nigerian government should expand tax base despite untold hardship

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has tasked the Nigerian government on the need to expand the country’s tax base by exploring innovative ways. Mr Sanwo-Olu...

NAFDAC seizes fake cosmetics valued at ₦35 million in Abuja

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday in Abuja arrested five persons for selling counterfeit cosmetics. NAFDAC urges Nigerians...

FG approves low-interest loans for media houses

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has issued a crucial directive instructing the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment to join forces with the Bank...

House of Reps deputy spokesman Agbese to chair Nigeria-Finland Parliamentary Group

The deputy spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, has been appointed as the chairman of the Nigeria-Finland Parliamentary Friendship Group. His appointment was...

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