archiveApril 1, 2019

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has lamented that inflation has seriously affected the purchasing power of the N30, 000 National Minimum Wage recently approved by the Senate. President of TUC,  Comrade Bobboi Kaigama, said though the organised labour appreciates the approval of the new wage, he lamented that...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has confirmed that it had commenced probe of the nation’s federal government parastatals. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, ICPC spokesperson. It said a reasonable number of petitions received by it were on infractions...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Sunday commended the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu, for his advice to President Muhammadu Buhari-led government not to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT). It would be recalled that Tinubu had given...

Bank customers carried out over one million transactions on Nigeria Interbank Settlement System Instant Pay platform recorded on Sunday, live updates provided by the NIBSS has shown. NIP, which is an online real-time product that facilitates instant digital payment of bills on an account, hit exactly 1,336,441 transactions as of...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says the Federal High Court in Lagos has given the green light to its suit seeking to compel the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola to disclose the names of corrupt contractors. Justice Chuka Obiozor granted the order for leave following...

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that an investment of about $40  billion, which is about N12.24 trillion for the plan by the Federal Government of Nigerian to connect major cities with railway to become a reality. This means that the government would need about one and half size...

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