Author: Samuel Akpenpuun

Organised Labour threw the nation into darkness after shutting down the national grid in the wee hours of yesterday. It was the first day of the indefinite strike it called to protest the stalled talks on minimum wage. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) announced on Friday a “total indefinite strike” over the failure of the Tripartite Committee to agree on a new minimum wage. The government offered N60,000, the Organised Private Sector (OPS) stood at N57,000 while Labour is asking for N494,000. Local flights were prevented from taking off at airports in Lagos and Abuja.…

As the strike action declared by the Nigerian Labour Congress enters its first day, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has said the ongoing strike action will not affect airlifting of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the 2024 Hajj rites, adding that a total of 37,102 pilgrims have been airlifted to the Holy Land. The remaining 28,000 intending pilgrims will have to be airlifted before June 12, when Arabia is expected to close its borders for the Hajj operation. Out of the number, the private tour operators will airlift about 15,000 through chartered flights. NAHCON, in a statement, said,…

While enforcing the nationwide strike by labour over minimum wage, members of labour union shut down Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Lagos, after chasing staff out of the Agidingbi, Ikeja, office.

Grammy-winning singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, is dedicating his sixth studio album, ‘Morayo,’ to his late mother, Jane Morayo Balogun. The ‘Essence’ hitmaker made this announcement in a video message shared on his social media on Saturday, revealing that the album, named in honour of his mother, will be released “very soon.” Wizkid said: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.” Recall that Wizkid lost his mother, Mrs Jane Dolapo Balogun, on August 18, 2023, in London after which she was buried in Nigeria. Wizkid…

United States-based lawyer, High Chief Owolabi Salis has pleaded with the Federal Government  to release from detention  the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader,Mazi,Nnamdi Kanu. The Ikorodu-born Lagosian who in 2019,contested for governorship on the platform of Alliance For Democrac (AD), said there is an urgent need to free the IPOB leader, as ‘he has been held in  detention for  too long’. “Remember that the embattled young man had languished in detention since 2015, during which he had been in and out of hospital due to his health, which had been gravely imperiled. Moreover, there had been injunctions from the…

Goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali as well as Leicester City duo Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho are the latest players to storm the Super Eagles training camp in Uyo ahead of important 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Also in camp is AC Milan player, Samuel Chukwueze, who arrived in Uyo yesterday to dispel injury fears. The winger has been left out by AC Milan from a friendly against fellow Serie A club AS Roma to allow him to recover from a muscle problem. Injury has already forced Victor Osimhen out of the World Cup qualifiers, while Bayer Leverkusen winger Nathan Tella has asked…

Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir was set on Sunday to become Iceland’s new president, election results showed, beating former prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, who critics said was too political for the post. Jakobsdottir conceded defeat early on Sunday and congratulated Tomasdottir, the CEO of The B Team, a global non-profit co-founded by UK business tycoon Richard Branson to promote business practices focused on humanity and the climate. Iceland’s president holds a largely ceremonial position in the parliamentary republic, acting as a guarantor of the constitution and national unity. He or she does however have the power to veto legislation or submit it…

President Bola Tinubu has ordered security agents to go after the killers of five soldiers in Aba, Abia State and those behind the call for sit-at-home in South-East. Tinubu said on no account should anyone, under any guise, have the audacity to kill agents of the state. This was contained in a statement on Saturday night. The President, who was reacting to the murder of five soldiers in Aba on Thursday, May 30, by elements suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, warned that the Federal Government will come down heavily against those who have made…

Real Madrid manager, Carlo Ancelotti has become the most successful coach in the history of the Champions League. The Italian, on Saturday at Wembley, won his third title with the LaLiga giants, and fifth Champions League trophy. Ancelloti won the UCL twice at Milan in 2003 and 2007, then again at Real Madrid in 2014, 2022 and 2024. Next on the list of the Champions League/European Cup’s most successful managers are Pep Guardiola, Zinedine Zidane and Liverpool’s Bob Paisley, who are all tied on three. Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson are tied on twice each.

The crisis rocking the Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has taken a new dimension with the suspension of the Caretaker Committee Chairman, Elizabeth Ativie, over alleged gross misconduct and insubordination. “It is dead on arrival, I am the current state Labour Party chairman in Edotate Working Committee which was attended by local government chairmen and secretaries of the party. The development is coming less than one week after she was sworn in as caretaker Chairman of LP in the state by the National leadership of the party after the dissolution of the state exco led by Kelly Ogbaloi.…