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However, the organised labour insisted on N250,000. President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.    This was announced by a presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga via a short statement he issued on X.    The statement reads: “Breaking: President Bola Tinubu has approved N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.   “President Tinubu also promised to find...

  The Arewa Youth Ambassadors, a northern group, has vowed to continue with the planned protest scheduled to commence on August 1, aimed at expressing its dissatisfaction with President Bola Tinubu’s anti-people policies.   The group also debunked the rumours making the rounds that it had shelved the mass action saying the information was false and misleading just as it called on Nigerians to ignore it.     This was disclosed in a statement signed...

The national students body noted that the subsidy removal regime had only brought untold hardships to Nigerians and created fuel scarcity instead of making fuel available to Nigerians. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has lambasted the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government saying its removal of the fuel subsidy has achieved no result.    The national students body noted that the subsidy removal regime had only brought untold hardships to Nigerians and created fuel...

  The female lawmaker at that time had diverted the palliatives meant for her constituents and repackaged same as birthday party packs as seen in photographs which went viral after the event.      President Bola Tinubu on Saturday approved the appointment of Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Kehinde Alli-Macaulay, a former Lagos lawmaker as the Executive Director (Operations) of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF).   SaharaReporters in October 2020 reported how Nigerians exposed Alli-Macaulay for...

A Hausa socio-cultural group under the umbrella of Hausawa Tsantsa Development Association (HTDA) has raised an alarm alleging that some Fulani people are plotting to instigate protests against President Bola Tinubu’s government.   The group, which made the allegation in a statement dated July 9 and signed by Kalthoom Alumbe Jitami, warned all Hausa youths across Nigeria against participating in the alleged planned protests, asking Hausa youths to be wary and vigilant of the plots....

President Bola Tinubu made a constitutional breach on the appointment of a new management team for the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), SaharaReporters has gathered.   Tinubu in March in a press statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, appointed Umar Abdullahi Umar as the new Executive Director of the agency.   Umar is the son of ex-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State and the embattled National Chairman of the...

    Chief executives of some Nigerian government agencies including the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Code of Conduct Bureau, Public Complaints Commission, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and the Legal Aid Council are reportedly anxious over moves by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to overhaul the agencies.   This is part of plans for the justice sector reform, multiple sources told SaharaReporters.   It was gathered that some of them...

      The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed its regrets that the region voted for President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Of the three leading candidates in the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled the highest votes from the region. In an interview with Guardian on Tuesday, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, spokesman of the forum, said going forward, the region would prioritise unity...

      The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed its regrets that the region voted for President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Of the three leading candidates in the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled the highest votes from the region. In an interview with Guardian on Tuesday, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, spokesman of the forum, said going forward, the region would prioritise unity...

The Nigerian government, on Friday, insisted on the 240 per cent hike in tariff payable by power consumers in the band ‘A’ category despite calls for its reversal.   It also revealed that the subsidised power pricing regime would be for the short term, with a transition plan to achieve a full cost-reflective tariff within a period of three years.   However, the decision did not go down well with the Nigeria Labour Congress, which...