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Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says the President Bola Tinubu administration is the worst violator of workers’ rights in the nation’s history.   Abubakar said this in a statement issued on Wednesday to felicitate with Nigerian workers on the occasion of the International Workers’ Day.   Abubakar said despite improved working conditions of workers globally, the situation in Nigeria remains “dire”.   “As Nigerian workers join their counterparts across the world today to celebrate International Workers Day, it is a sobering truth that the plight of the Nigerian worker remains dire,”…

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Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), says the federal government’s announcement of a pay rise for civil servants is mischievous.   On Tuesday, the federal government approved a pay rise of between 25 and 35 percent for civil servants across various consolidated salary structures.   Speaking on Wednesday during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, Ajaero said the last minimum wage of N30,000 expired on April 18.   “We should be in the regime of new minimum wage as of today. Discussions were supposed…

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Human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has lashed out at President Bola Tinubu for appointing the worst set of ministers since 1999. Adeyanju said Tinubu’s government lacked one credible person that can speak and Nigerians will believe. His comment is coming when the presidency released a statement announcing that A.P Moller-Maersk shipping company had pledged to inject $600 million into the Nigerian seaport industry. This was after President Tinubu’s discussion with Robert Maersk Uggla on April 28. “Danish shipping company, A.P Moller-Maersk plans $600m investment in Nigeria. Danish shipping and logistics…

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 Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, says no agreement or deal was signed between the Nigerian government and the shipping giant, Maersk.   Speaking with TheCable on Tuesday, Onanuga said there was only talk “of possible investment in Nigeria” by Maersk.   After President Tinubu’s discussion with Robert Maersk Uggla on April 28, the presidency released a statement announcing that the shipping company had pledged to inject $600 million into the Nigerian seaport industry.   “Danish shipping company, A.P Moller-Maersk plans $600m investment in…

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Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, has warned youths involved in internet fraud popularly known as Yahoo Yahoo.   Bishop Oyedepo warned that those involved in Yahoo Yahoo won’t end well, stressing that they should steer clear of fraudulent activities and live within the bounds of the law.   Addressing his members at the church’s headquarters in Ota, Ogun State on Sunday, Bishop Oyedepo warned his members against deceit and corruption, specifically targeting those involved in internet scams.   “Nobody playing games has a future in the…

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A part of Landmark Beach on Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday was demolished to give way to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Nigeria’s biggest public infrastructure project.   This is despite the outcry in some sections about the potential jobs and means of livelihood that will be lost.   Meanwhile, the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, while defending the demolition noted that the move was necessary considering the landmark centre was located on the Federal Government’s Right-of-Way.   The minister had earlier assured that with the design of the coastal highway…

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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said his decision not to support his former deputy, Philip Shaibu, to succeed him was aimed at protecting the people of the state.   Obaseki stated that he could not take the risk of backing Shaibu to become the next governor, citing political permutations in the state that were against Shaibu.   Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the governor addressed the fallout between him and his former Deputy in the build-up to the Peoples Democratic Party primary election.   The fallout resulted…

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 The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagum, has expressed optimism that the party was ready to win the Ondo state governorship election in November.   Damagum made this statement while addressing stakeholders of the party before the presentation of the Certificate of Return to the candidate of the party, Alfred Agboola Ajayi at the party headquarters in Abuja.   He also called on Ajayi to get to work and rally round other aspirants to ensure the victory of the party.   Damagum, who took a…

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Yuki Gambaryan, the wife of the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, hass told the US Parliament that the Nigerian Government kept her husband, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison together with Boko Haram terrorists and bandits.   Yuki, represented by her congressman, Rich McCormick, spoke at Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable on Americans detained abroad.   According to her, the husband has spent 65 days in custody.   Gambaryan and another company executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, were detained on February 26 following an investigation into Binance’s activities in Nigeria.…

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 The Nigerian Peace Corps Establishment Bill, earlier passed by the House of Representatives on February 29, 2024, and transmitted to the Senate for concurrence has been read on the floor of Senate.   With this development, a motion for concurrence to be sponsored by the Senate Leader, Senator Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele (APC Ekiti Central) will come up shortly to enable the Senate adopt the bill in line with the extant rules of the National Assembly.   The Peace Corps of Nigeria established over 25 years ago by the National Commandant,…

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