Author: TheScrutinyNG

The Abia government has said it would pay salary arrears owed workers in the state civil service in tranches. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Mike Akpara, made this known on Tuesday during a press conference in Umuahia. Akpara expressed the determination of the present administration to completely change the narrative of owing workers salaries because “a worker deserves his wages.” According to him, the present administration inherited a debt of N16.5 billion in salary arrears owed workers in state-owned institutions of learning. He said that the government had resolved to clear the arrears and ensured that the advancement it recorded…

President Bola Tinubu said yesterday he will consult with the 36 state governors and members of the organized private sector, OPS, before arriving at the figure that will be submitted to the National Assembly in the form of an Executive Bill as the new national minimum wage. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Tinubu at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister said a memo on the report of the new minimum wage was presented to…

Residents of Torough community in Ukum Local Goverment Area of Benue State are now selling their farm produce to raise the N20 million tax slammed on them by bandits or face serious attack. Sources in the community told journalists that the local militias have threatened to unleash an attack on the community if the money is not paid in the next few days. As a result of the threat, our correspondent learnt that residents of the community had shared the amount with each house to contribute N50,000. One of the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of…

By Gboyega Akosile There is no gain saying that God in His infinite wisdom does not make mistakes – I know that most of the widely accepted religions, in the world, Islam and Christianity, hold strongly to this belief. He does as He pleases Himself in the affairs of man, with absolute precision. This can be said of those that God has chosen and used to run the affairs of men in the world. From the days of prophets, Kings, Queens and rulers up to the present day leaders, we believe that there is a hand of God in their…

The Nigerian Army has denied reports that it was recruiting Islamic fundamentalists and jihadists into the military. The denial was made in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Maj Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, and obtained by SaharaReporters on Tuesday. This comes as a Dutch think tank, Clingendael Institute, said jihadi fighters from the Sahel region had crossed into Nigeria through the Benin Republic border. The organisation in a report last Wednesday stated that the extremists had settled in Kainji Lake National Park in Niger and Kebbi states, adding that banditry was re-emerging in zones controlled by a militant jihadist organisation in…

France’s three main political camps were set to go head-to-head Tuesday in a key TV debate as voters prepared for the most polarising election in decades and President Emmanuel Macron warned of “civil war”. The rhetoric has reached fever pitch ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the parliamentary elections, with the far-right National Rally polling in first place. Tuesday night’s debate will pit Prime Minister Gabriel Attal of Macron’s centrist Renaissance party against RN president Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard of France Unbowed, representing a left-wing alliance that is also besting Macron’s side in the polls. At just…

Candidates seeking admission into the Lagos State University, LASU, must score at least 195 marks in the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to stand any chance of being considered for admission. This is because the university has established that as the cutoff point for its admission process. The same was what the university pegged its cut-off at last year. Admission to the university this year may be challenging because it ranked as the third-most subscribed university in this year’s UTME. Some attribute this to the lower fee regime in the university compared to some state and federal universities. Last…

A 47-year-old man, Emmanuel Chukwuma, has been arrested by the Lagos State police for stabbing his 45-year-old girlfriend, Bosede Adefehinti, to death on 7th Avenue, Festac. According to information gathered, the man, popularly known as Oliver on the street, was living with the woman as boyfriend and girlfriend, not as a married couple. Findings revealed that although they had no child together, the man had a child elsewhere. An eyewitness who requested anonymity told our correspondent that this wasn’t the first time the lovers had issues. He said, “Yesterday around 2:30 pm, Oliver stabbed his girlfriend, and after stabbing her,…

In a bid to tackle revenue leakage the Federal Government, FG, is set to deploy a new revenue flow architecture known as ‘Revenue Assurance and Central Disbursement Solutions’ for its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAS), as well as, FG-Owned Enterprises. To this end, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, met relevant stakeholders in Abuja yesterday, to fine-tune the deployment of the system. Once implemented, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) and non-GIFMIS platforms would monitor revenue generation and provide a consolidated dashboard of the revenue situation for all Federal Government-owned enterprises,…

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar, yesterday, declared that it will take decades for the north-west to be free from the menacing security challenge. The Sultan spoke in Katsina at the ‘Inaugural North West Peace and Security Summit’. In his address, the Sultan said: “What we must do is challenge these bandits because we all know the consequences of banditry and insurgency on our lives. “But it will take decades to get out of it if at all we get out of it. We all know the consequences and the problems. The monarch expressed the readiness of traditional rulers in…