Minimum Wage: FG, Labour in closed-door meeting
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The Federal Government and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (Trade Union side) are currently meeting at the Ministry of Labour and Employment to resolve the controversy over the consequential adjustment on the new national minimum wage. The meeting which the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige […]
Pope Francis appoints new Vatican security chief
Pope Francis on Tuesday named a new head of the Vatican security services, a day after the previous holder of the job resigned because of a media leak.
Budget: FG to pay oil workers N75bn salary in 2020
Workers of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and four other parastatals under the ministry will earn N74.65 billion as salaries and other emoluments in 2020, according to budget estimates presented by the Presidency to the National Assembly.
Border closure: Customs officials allegedly ‘kill’ Rice smugglers’ informant in Jigawa — Report
A man suspected to be an informant of rice smugglers has been killed allegedly by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service in Jigawa State,
NAF wings two female pilots, Air Warrant officer
Kingsley Omonobi and Joseph Erunke The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday produced its first-ever female fighter pilot and first female combat helicopter pilot. The service also decorated the first female Air Warrant Officer, who was said to have braced all odds and proved herself worthy of the promotion to the enviable rank of Air […]
Breaking: EFCC re-arraigns Atiku’s lawyer over $2m money laundering
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday re-arraigned Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, lawyer to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
