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International credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has projected that the Nigerian currency, the naira, will end the year at 1,450 to the United States of American dollar. This was disclosed by the Director, Sovereigns, at Fitch Ratings, Gaimin Nonyane, during a post-sovereign rating webinar on Tuesday focused on Nigeria and Egypt. Earlier in May, Fitch […]
No fewer than five shops were on Tuesday gutted by fire at the timber market in Kenyatta Street, Uwani, Enugu, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN reports that prompt response by the state Fire Service quenched the fire from spreading to other parts of the plywood market. A firefighter, who preferred anonymity, said the […]
Organised Labour may settle for N100,000 minimum wage as the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage commences daily meetings for five days to reach a consensus. Multiple sources in the labour movement told the union leaders were willing to review their demand from N494,000 to N100,000, following the criticism and controversy that trailed their proposal […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress said the electronic registration of its members nationwide will start on Wednesday and the exercise will be inaugurated by its National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. Morka noted that Ganduje will be […]
The members of the Special Marshall of the Bauchi State Sector Command of the FRSC gave the warning during their monthly meeting held on Saturday. Speaking at the meeting, the Deputy State Coordinator of the Special Marshall, Godwin Obioha, commended the members for their cooperation and urged them to sustain their efforts, adding that it […]
The Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, a civil society organisation composed of legal practitioners, has declared its intention to file a lawsuit at the Federal High Court to contest the recently enacted National Anthem Act, 2024. The legislation, which was signed into law on Wednesday, reinstated the former national anthem, ‘Nigeria we hail […]
The Federal Government has pleaded with Organised Labour to reconsider its decision to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, June 3, 2024, in protest against the government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage from N60,000. The interest of the masses should be the top priority of Organised Labour, the Federal Government stressed. The […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Crimes Commission says it has secured the conviction of a woman, Bilikis Adeyinka, for hawking naira notes in the Ikeja area of Lagos State. The EFCC in a statement on its Facebook page on Thursday disclosed that the convict was arrested while hawking a sum of N897,900, an act […]
There was tension in Aba, Abia State, on Thursday, following the killing of two soldiers by yet-to-be-identified gunmen at a military checkpoint at the Obikabia Junction in the Obingwa Local Councils of the state. Though the Indigenous People of Biafra was yet to claim the attack, the development came following the warning to the […]
Nigeria, we hail thee, Our own dear native land, Though tribe and tongue may differ, In brotherhood, we stand, Nigerians all, and proud to serve Our sovereign Motherland. Our flag shall be a symbol That truth and justice reign, In peace or battle honour’d, And this we count as gain, To hand on to […]
