Tinubu to send new minimum wage bill to National Assembly ‘soon’

The Cross River Government says it will take delivery of two new aircraft in March as part of plans to boost the state airline company. Gov. Bassey Otu disclosed this at a media parley with journalists in Calabar on Tuesday. Otu said that the plan to resuscitate the state airline was to provide alternative transportation…

Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River says the Bakassi Deep Seaport project will be funded without the state taking any loan facility. Otu said that the project, a flagship of his administration, though not conceptualised by his government, would change the economic landscape of the state and that of the country at large. The governor…

The European Union (EU) is exploring the potential for establishing a hydropower generation site at Asso Falls in Plateau State. According to the Head of Green and Digital Economy at the EU Delegation in Nigeria and ECOWAS, Inga Stefanowicz, the hydropower project, which is expected to generate 2MW of electricity, is part of the EU’s…

The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has thrown its weight behind moves to grant both men and women five months of widowhood leave to mourn deceased spouses. The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), the Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), and several other stakeholders also endorsed the move on Monday during a…

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 Lagos State elections, has called for the immediate withdrawal of armed Department of State Services (DSS) operatives from the Lagos State House of Assembly complex. This follows reports of DSS agents storming and sealing the office of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mojisola Meranda, and the…

A fellow of the National Teachers Institute, Chief Sylvester Onoja, has observed that it is abnormal to appoint an accountant to head colleges of education. Instead, Onoja insists that only trained and qualified teachers should be the ones to head colleges of education in the state. Onoja was reacting to the recent appointment of an…

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan Chapter, says it will embark on an indefinite strike if power is not restored to the residential areas of the hospital. This is contained in a communiqué from its emergency meeting held on Feb. 14, which was made available to newsmen on Monday in…

A member of the House of Representatives and lawyer, Mr. Solomon Bob, has said that with the Supreme Court dismissing the appeal by Governor Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers State, the judgment of the Court of Appeal affirming the High Court decision on the presentation of the Rivers State budget stands. The Supreme Court had dismissed…

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has listed the construction of the Zungur/Bagel Dam as a key project designed to serve the Bauchi local government with water and generate power for about seven local councils in the state. Dogara, who spoke during the commissioning of a 2.5km road project awarded by…

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun and the Chief of Staff to the President , Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, on Saturday visited the residence of the late Afenifere Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, to commiserate with his family over the death of their patriarch. Abiodun arrived at the Lagos home of the Yoruba leader at 4.50 p.m. Gbajabiamila…