UK passport workers launch five-week walkout over pay
UK passport office workers launched a five-week stoppage Monday, the latest walkout in strike-hit Britain as the country reels from the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) accused the government of failing to deal even handedly with public sector workers. The UK has been hit by […]
ASCSN insists on payment of gratuity to civil servants
ASSOCIATION of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, has vowed to continue to push for the payment of gratuities to all categories of civil servants on retirement in line with constitutional provision.
Pensioners in S-West demand 35% pay rise
NIGERIA Union of Pensioners, NUP, has called on the governors in the South West zone of the country to immediately implement the consequential adjustment and the 35 per cent increment in pensions for retirees to lessen their suffering.
Grounded Airlines: How Kabo Air shut down over unpaid tax liabilities
Exactly six years ago, Kabo Air established in February 1980 was shut down by the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service due to unpaid tax liabilities.
Nigeria air: No extraneous situation warrants transfer of suit —AON
The Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, have berated the transfer of the suit challenging the process of the appointment of Ethiopian Airlines as core investors and operators of proposed Nigeria Air to Abuja.
Ramadan Talk Day 12: Anger, irritation in public places against a fasting Muslim
A lot of motorists utter some dirty language to other road users at the slightest unruly behaviour. The fasting Muslims have been advised by the Prophet to reply whatever provocation in Ramadan as “I am fasting”.
Aerotropolis: FG insists on expansion projects, despite unions’ agitation
The Federal government weekend, insisted that there is no going back on the demolition of some buildings obstructing the expansion of the newly constructed Murtala Muhammadu international Airport Two (MMIA2), in Lagos.
Suppressed proposal: E-voting innovators demand N77bn from INEC, FG
A US-based medical professional, Dr Adah Obekpa, and Renaissance Network Africa, RNA, an organisation working for the unification of Africa and its Diaspora have filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Federal Government over alleged suppression of their contributions to the introduction of electronic voting, E-voting, in Nigeria.
No to petrol subsidy removal without domestic refining — IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has insisted it was opposed to the removal of subsidy on petrol, if the country fails to refine the product locally.
Lagos, A’Ibom, Rivers, others eye $10bn power sector investment — Investigation
WITH the proposed amendment of Nigeria’s Electricity Act, Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and other states have moved to establish appropriate structures for the establishment of state regulatory commissions and licensing of investors interested in investing about $10 billion in the sector.
10th NASS Leadership: Power blocs strategise, await Tinubu’s return
THE jostling for the Senate Presidency and Speakership of the House of Representatives assumed a new gear, weekend, as power blocs in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, worked on their strategies to get the posts while awaiting the return of President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from vacation.
