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N30,000 minimum wage is criminal, I pay my cleaner N60,000 – Oshiomhole

1 year ago1592 min

Adams Oshiomhole, a senator from Edo North, has criticized the N30,000 minimum salary. Oshiomhole emphasized that he pays his cleaner N60,000 while referring to the present minimum wage as “illegal wage.” Oshiomhole claimed on Sunday Politics on Channels Television that the present minimum wage was insufficient for workers. “What we term minimum wage is a criminal wage,” claims Oshiomhole. “I can tell you how much I’m paying my cleaning. I doubt that my cleaner even...

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Local Police Arrest Three For Allegedly Killing Bolt Driver In Abuja

1 year ago1694 min

In connection with the death of a bolt driver named Obasi Okeke in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Police Command has detained three suspects. According to the FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, who is parading the suspect in Abuja, the victim was found on June 5 at Ngugu near to Area 11 Garki Abuja, laying in a pool of blood with a cut throat. He claimed that a thorough investigation to identify the perpetrator...

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Police arrest Beninese father, others over attempted use of son for ritual

1 year ago1479 min

Mr. Pome Banda, a 50-year-old Beninoir parent, and three other people have been detained by the Zone 2 Police Command on suspicion of luring a nine-year-old kid from the Benin Republic for ritualistic money-laundering. Mr. Ari Mohammed, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), revealed this information to news reporters in Lagos. In the course of their planning, according to Mohammed, Zone 2 Criminal Investigation Department learned about them, and the police acted as the herbalist...

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Military destroy 23 illegal refining sites in Niger Delta

1 year ago3055 min

In the Niger Delta, “Operation Delta Safe” troops demolished 23 illegal refining plants and seized 367,200 litres of crude oil. During a Thursday media briefing in Abuja, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, Director of Defence Media Operations (DMO) at DHQ Abuja, stated this. He stated the Joint Taskforce of Operation Delta Safe in the South-South intercepted and sank a crude oil thief. Maj. Gen. Buba said the air component destroyed active illegal refining plants while troops...

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Driver crushes policeman to death at Ondo check point

1 year ago3072 min

Ondo State Police Command nabbed a driver who killed a policeman at a checkpoint on the Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, Ose Local Government Area, on Sunday. The motorist, whose name was unknown, allegedly hit an Assistant Superintendent of Police and was apprehended by the Nigeria Army at Sobe in Edo State. The command denied that the highway kidnappers killed the cop. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Funmilayo Odunlami, verified the officer’s death as...

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Shettima will represent Tinubu Rome, Russia

1 year ago1463 min

For two significant international summits in Rome, Italy, and St. Petersburg, Russia, Vice President Kashim Shettima has left Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu. Shettima, who departed the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at around 3 p.m. on Sunday, will attend the inaugural Stocktaking Moment Summit from July 24 to July 26 with other world leaders under the subject “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet, and Prosperity.” The Vice President will preside over a...

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Fuel subsidies: Driving car becoming luxury in Lagos – Rhodes-Vivour

1 year ago3003 min

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a Labour Party candidate for governor in Lagos state, claimed that car travel has turned into a luxury in Lagos due to the increase in fuel prices brought on by the loss of fuel subsidies. Using his verified Twitter account, Rhodes-Vivour stated this on Saturday. “Fuel prices have turned automotive transportation into a luxury in Lagos,” he said. However, this administration and its party have had 23 years to construct a seamless...

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Palliative: N8,000 cash transfer is a scam — Kaduna governor

1 year ago3005 min

Uba Sani, the Governor of Kaduna State, has stated that the proposed cash transfer scheme of the Federal Government is a con job. In an earlier proposal, the Tinubu administration had suggested transferring N8,000 to each of the nation’s 12 million households each month for the next half a year as a means of mitigating the negative effects of the elimination of the petrol subsidy. After receiving negative feedback from Nigerians, the initiative was eventually...

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Nasarawa APC applauds Abdullahi on election as House Speaker

1 year ago2853 min

The recently elected Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ibrahim Abdullahi, has received congratulations from the All Progressives Congress in Nasarawa State. Daniel Ogazi, one of Abdullahi’s top candidates for the job, withdrew from the contest on Friday after speaking with journalists about his commitment to completely support the Speaker who had held the office for the previous eight years. The party claimed that Abdullahi’s election and subsequent swearing-in were victories for the people...

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VILLA BEAT with Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

1 year ago8417 min

Tinubu’s seven wonders in seven weeks That President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ramped up the engine of governance in Nigeria and hit the waves immediately he was sworn in on May 29, 2023, is not news anymore. From Abuja to Zurich, the story is the same: a new sheriff is in town and he is in a haste to give the giant of Africa a new lease of life. In the seven weeks he has...

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