President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States will not condone the ongoing killings across central Nigeria, saying efforts would be made to end the carnage. The U.S. President also promised the assist Nigeria in the fight against terrorism. “We’ve had very serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We’re […]
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The Organised Labour says it will not allow the Tripartite Committee for National Minimum Wage to alter the time line for the implementation for the new wage for workers in the country. NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said this during a Pre-May Day Symposium organised by the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on […]
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Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption for that function however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the entitlement of workers to the value and dignity of their labour. The Nigerian constituency is […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday arrived Washington DC ahead of his 4-day working visit to the United States. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft carrying President Buhari and members of his entourage had left the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Saturday at about 11.35p.m. A […]
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The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, May 1, 2018, as a public holiday to celebrate the 2018 Workers’ Day. Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, who disclosed this in Abuja on Friday, congratulated Nigerian workers on their loyalty, strength of character, hard work, sacrifice and dedication to building a greater country. The minister in a statement by […]
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Sogbesan Adetokunbo, Director of Highway Bridges and Design, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, has said the main project on the second Niger bridge will gulp N210 billion. Adetokunbo, who said this on Friday in Asaba during a media tour of the project, noted that the Federal Government had begun the procurement processes for […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on 28th April 2018, on an official working visit to the United States of America (USA), on the invitation of President Donald Trump. President Buhari will have bilateral meeting with President Trump and a working lunch on Monday 30 April 2018. The meeting is to discuss ways to enhance […]
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Reports have it that seven persons have been killed in a fresh attack on Benue Church, just two days after two priests and 17 church members were shot dead at a Catholic church in Gwer west local government area of the state. The fresh attacked took place at a church and a primary school in […]
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The United Nations International Children’s Fund has said that 88,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are at risk of death in the North-East. The organisation also said that about a million children between the ages of six and 59 months in the states most affected by insurgency – Borno, Adamawa and Yobe – were also […]
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An improvement in Nigeria’s oil earnings is on course as prices held firm on Friday near three-year highs reached earlier this week as ongoing OPEC-led supply cuts, as well as strong demand, gradually draw down excess supplies. Brent crude oil futures were up at 73.79 dollars per barrel at 0440 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) […]
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