Against the backdrop of the promise made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his New Year address that his administration will implement “national living wage” this year, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised a team to negotiate with government. The subsisting minimum wage, negotiated in 2018, expires in April 2024. Each agreed minimum wage has five years lifespan.

In this interview, Dr Phillips Nto, World Bank consultant,  development economist and former Abia state commissioner  for finance, spoke on the economy, insecurity and how to deepen Nigeria’s democracy among others.

In groundbreaking research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sedoten Ogun reveals how common food compounds could prevent atherosclerosis

“The Government of Northern Nigeria wanted to buy an airplane.  But a junior officer minuted on the memo that they did not need it because the money that would have been used to buy that aircraft would have been able to build so many hospitals, provide scholarships and provide services for millions of Northerners. Can a director or junior officer in the presidency or any governor’s office minute against the buying of anything in today’s Nigeria?” 

A graduate of Business Administration and Management, Oyebola Alabi, is CEO/Creative Director, Sewrite Fashion

Chief Frank Kokori, a former General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and a notable and vocal figure in the struggle for the actualization of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, passed on Thursday, December 7, 2023, the day he clocked 80 years. We published his last interview on July 9 in which he spoke about his link to the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), a body formed to actualize the June 12, 1993 election, true federalism, President Bola Tinubu administration and ‘oil subsidy cabal’ among other issues. We are republishing the interview in his honour

On the backdrop of the current inflation rate, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Minister of Finance, Olu Falae has harped on the need for the government to manage inflation the right way.

“Civilian oversight bodies like the civil bodies can provide an independent and objective review of police actions”

Chief Frank Kokori is a former General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and a notable and vocal figure in the struggle

While these observations rightly mirrored the status of past events, whether documented or oral, they nonetheless, didn’t dismiss the instructiveness of history.

The controversy over the allegation of ‘Yorubanisation agenda’ leveled against the Tinubu administration just took a twist as a top northern politician, Bello Bala Shagari, …..

Chief Samuel Maduka Onyishi is the founder and Chancellor of Maduka University situated in Enugu State which just commenced academic activities.

Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church is the Convener of the National Peace Committee which has been getting stakeholders

Olabode Ibiyinka George, a former Military Administrator of old Ondo State and a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,…

Comrade Joe Ajaero, a former Labour reporter who has risen to lead the Labour movement in Nigeria as the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), was recently battered in his line of duty by hoodlums while in police custody. Imo State Police Command spokesman, Okoye Henry, had claimed that Ajaero was not arrested during the November 1, 2023 protest in Owerri over unpaid workers’ salaries. Henry said Ajaero was in “protective custody”. The sort of “protection” he received shocked well-meaning Nigerians. In this interview, Ajaero addresses issues that have featured between Labour and government since President Bola Tinubu was sworn-in on May 29, 2023 till date.