Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom has approved N18, 900, 27 kobo as minimum monthly wage in the state’s Civil Service, starting from this month.

Staff of the Jos Call Centre of MTN, a telecommunications operator, on Tuesday took to the streets to protest the suspension of 10 of their members.

WHEN the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, argues that it is the biggest and most democratic party in Nigeria, that is not easily identifiable with any ethnic group in Nigeria, very few people can argue against that fact.

The Federal government has reiterated its commitment towards the eradication of lead poisoning brought about as a result of illegal and improper handling of mining operations in the country.

Members of the pro-labour civil society groups, have warned of a repeat of the January uprising in the country over the hike in the pump price of petrol, should the government go ahead to jerk up electricity tariff from June as being speculated.

UNITED Action for Democracy, UAD, one of the civil society allies of Labour, has said among the major shortcomings of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE, introduced by the Federal Government in the wake of January 1, 2012 hike in the pump price of petrol, is that SURE has no plan to reduce the level of imported fuel in the next four years.

BOKO HARMA’S latest intrusion into the nation’s narrative– two improvised bombs peremptorily set off in the offices of a media house 150 kilometres apart, within the space of 40 minutes – plumbed new depths.

MR. Ibrahim Shehu Gusau is the Chairman, House committee on ICT. He represents Gusau\Tsafe federal constituency in the House of Representatives. Elected on the platform of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, he bares his mind on burning national issues. Excerpts:

The Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB, has said that it is compulsory for all brokers in the country to register with it before they can obtain operating license. President of the Council, Mrs. Laide Osijo disclosed this at a Brokers’ Members Evening. She said that the position of the law is that enlistment of an insurance broker with the NCRIB is a condition precedent to licensing by the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM.

Deputy Commissioner (Technical) of the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, Mr. Ibrahim Hassan has called on insurance operators to discard the unhealthy attitude of struggling to gain a share of premium from oil and gas business by all cost.