ULC begs Ajaero to suspend Imo guber ambition
THE United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has pleaded with its President, Joe Ajaero, to suspend his plan to contest the Imo State gubernatorial election in 2019.
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Don’t allow APC to manipulate 2019 polls, cleric tells PDP, others
ONITSHA—THE General Overseer of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministry Inc. Nnewi, Anambra state, Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh has made a passionate appeal to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, not to allow the All Progressives Congress, APC, to manipulate them by bringing out an unpopular candidate that will lose the presidential election to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read More Nigeria hits 163million voice subscription, $67bn FDI —NCC
ABUJA—The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC says Nigeria’s voice subscriber base has moved to 163million at the moment.
Read More FG targets N6bn from concessioning of 20 silos
ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, approved the concession of 20 Federal Government silos to private sector operators in a policy that will rake in N6 billion in 10 years.
Read More Reconstitution of EDSOPADEC: Ugu ward accuses Obaseki of neglect
BENIN—COMMUNITIES in Ugu Ward in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, have decried their alleged neglect in the constitution of the state’s goard of Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission, EDSOPADEC, by Edo state government.
Read More Minimum wage: Don’t push workers to the wall, SSANU warns FG
AGAINST the backdrop of the Federal Government’s alleged lackadaisical attitude over new minimum wage, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has warned the government not to push workers to the wall, saying the consequence may be grievous.
Read More 1000 contractors apply for Nigerian Railway Corporation’s projects
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has opened bids to pre-qualify contractors for its 2018 projects with over 1000 participating.
Read More INEC’s ban on smart phones unconstitutional, unacceptable —Ekweremadu
YENAGOA—DEPUTY Senate President, Prof Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its decision to ban the use of smart phones at polling units, describing the move as unconstitutional and unacceptable.
Read More CIBN commences SME finance certification 2019
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has concluded plans to commence a certification programme on SME financing starting from April 2019.
Read More Adeosun’s mendacity and Buhari’s integrity
After pussyfooting for 69 days, the former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, finally did the needful by resigning her commission on Friday, September 14.
Read More 860 Mobil security staff: Falana tasks Ngige on S-Court judgement
HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has urged Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, to get Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to obey the Supreme Court judgement and reinstate 860 security staff it sacked for resisting its anti-labour policy of converting them into spy police personnel.
Read More Agric College: Edo govt gives N20,000 monthly stipends to students
BENIN—Edo state government has said that it has concluded plans to commence the payment of N20,000 monthly stipends to students of its state-owned College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state.
Read More Save Leah Sharibu’s neck, ECWA, Osu plead
Director of Social Communications at Lagos Catholic Archdiocese, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, has appealed to the Federal Government to save the neck of Leah Sharibu, just as her church, Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, has declared three days of intensive prayers for her release.
Read More NLC,TUC, ULC unite over minimum wage
SINCE March 2015, fol-lowing the disputed Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, delegates conference that produced Ayuba Wabba as President, and December 16, 2016, when about 25 industrial unions, including some from NLC and TUC, announced the formation of a new Labour Centre; United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, the relationship between NLC and TUC on one hand; and ULC on the other hand, was everything but cordial.
Read More Buhari’s govt , a disaster, says Bafarawa
ABEOKUTA—A two-term governor of Sokoto State and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential aspirant, Dr Attahiru Bafarawa, yesterday, described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as a disaster.
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