Author: Festus Adeloye

Former Senate Chief Whip, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to listen to the yearnings of Nigerians which inform the planned protest. Ndume made the call during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today. When asked to comment on the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) President Joe Ajaero’s call to the president to talk to President Tinubu, Ndume said he endorsed the motion. He said, “I second his motion. The NLC president moved that motion. Tell him I support his motion that the president should listen to Nigerians. “We are 26 days away from the attack in Gworza.…

The Senate and the National Council for Women Society (NCWS) have sought for inclusion of domestic servants in the proposed 70,000 naira National Minimum Wage Scheme. This was highlighted during a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity on a bill for an Act to Provide for Domestication and Registration of Domestic Workers and Employers in Nigeria. The Senator representing Imo West Osita Izunaso as well as the Acting National President of NCWS Geraldeen Etuk especially argued for the inclusion of domestic servants in the proposed National Minimum Wage law and asserted that part of the…

The Federal Government has moved to resolve the ongoing dispute between Dangote Refinery and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, over the quality of diesel distributed in the country. To resolve the issue, the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil), on Monday night, convened a high-level meeting with key stakeholders to address and resolve the ongoing issues surrounding the Dangote Refinery. A statement by the Minister’s media aide, Nneamaka Okafor listed those present at the meeting as: Mr. Aliko Dangote, Chairman/CEO of Dangote Group, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, Authority Chief Executive, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to invite the leaders of a planned nationwide protest over hardship in the country, asking him to also address the challenges facing the citizens. “As the date for the widely reported national protest looms, the Nigeria Labour Congress urges President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to invite the leadership of the protest movement for discussions on their grievances,” the NLC said in a Monday statement by its president Joe Ajaero. The NLC chief said with inflation hitting 34.19 per cent coupled with the hike in food and electricity tariffs among others,…

Nigerian skit maker Brain Jotter has met with legendary highlife singer, Mike ‘Gentleman’ Ejeagha. Ejeagha’s song ‘Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche’ recently gained widespread popularity after Brain Jotter used it as the soundtrack for his viral dance moves. The dance involves participants facing opposite directions, walking towards each other, performing a funny leg dance, and then chasing each other to the chorus “Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo.” Brain Jotter’s first Instagram clip of the dance, shared on July 5, garnered nearly one million likes by July 21. On TikTok, similar videos have been viewed massively. The trend has also seen…

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu on Monday assured Nigerians of the Federal government’s resolve to utilise the proposed N6.2 trillion additional budgetary expenditure aimed at stimulating the economy through the implementation of various infrastructural projects including road, rail, water, irrigation and dam projects in the 2024 fiscal year. Bagudu disclosed this while addressing the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation chaired by Hon. Abubakar Bichi. Responding to the inquiries, the Minister noted that various efforts are being made to address issues bothering on security of lives across the country. According to him, some of the…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, declined to nullify the primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the impending governorship election in Edo State. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justice, dismissed an appeal that was filed by the embattled Deputy Governor of the state, Philip Shaibu, who was earlier impeached from office but recently reinstated by the court. While dismissing the appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/642/2024, for want of merit, the Justice, A. M Lamido-led panel said it found no reason to set aside…

Former Manchester City and Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with sending malicious online communications. The charge is believed to relate to comments Barton made while criticising football pundit Eni Aluko during her commentary on an FA Cup match broadcast by the BBC in January. Barton will appear before Warrington Magistrates’ Court next week after the Crown Prosecution Service authorised the charge. “A man from Widnes has been summoned to court to face charges of malicious communications,” a Cheshire Police statement said on Monday. “Following an investigation by Cheshire Police, the Crown Prosecution Service has since authorised the charges…

The Joint Committee of the House of Representatives carrying out a forensic investigation into the challenges affecting the downstream and midstream petroleum sectors has commenced a probe into allegations of importation of contaminated Premium Motor Spirit, also known as fuel, into the country. The committee’s Chairman, Ikenga Ugochinyere disclosed this at the formal inauguration of the panel in Abuja on Monday. The investigative panel will also look into allegations of the non-availability of crude oil to domestic refineries, disruption in distribution and favouritism in the pro forma invoice regime, among others. Briefing newsmen at the event, Ugochinyere said, “The committee…

A former INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, has said the former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Colonel David Imuse (retd.), is deploying tricks to frustrate the ongoing libel he instituted against him. Igini dragged Imuse before the Edo State High Court over alleged libellous publications authored against him during the 2020 governorship election in the state and demanded N5 billion in damages. Speaking in Benin on Monday, Igini expressed displeasure over the long period the case had dragged on, adding that, counsel to the 1st defendant (Imuse) was deliberately using antics…