Federal Government Begins Payment Of New Minimum Wage

 

   The Federal Government of Nigeria has started payment of the N30,000 new minimum wage agreed with Nigerian workers and signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18, 2019.

PDP chieftain, Ben Akile kidnapped in Benue State

 
  Gunmen on Sunday, September 22nd abducted a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benue State, Ben Akile. 

Trial of Sowore runs against progressive philosophy- Shehu Sani Tony Akowe, Abuja

 
     Former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debt, Senator Shehu Sani, yesterday said that the charges filed against the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, contradicts the philosophy of progressivism being practiced by the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Sani who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate told The Nation that the country’s democracy is being hampered by the growing culture of intolerance and opposing opinions. He added that the President’s desire to build and leave behind an anti-corruption legacy should not be cited in the “Human rights graveyard”

   He appealed to the government to drop the charges of money laundering and treasonable felony filed against Sowore. Sani said “Sowore’s trial is unnecessary and uncalled for. It would only further stain the human rights record of this administration and diminish and dent the moral standing of our country.

Fire Guts Unity Bank Head Office

 

  There has been a fire incident at the Head Office of Unity Bank Plc on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Monday morning.

CAN raises alarm over influx of strange faces into South East

 

    The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has expressed concern over what it called influx into the Southeast by unidentified faces. It raised the alarm on Sunday in a statement signed by its chairman in the Southeast, Bishop Dr. Goddy Okafor and the Secretary, Dr. S.C Nwokolo.

   The Christian body, which restated its opposition to the controversial RUGA programme, said such strange faces should be made to leave the zone. According to the group, “all the people without identity, who are flooding the zone should be stopped by immigration and other law enforcement agencies.