Author: Samuel Akpenpuun

The Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress, forming the Organized Labour, are preparing to initiate a joint extraordinary National Executive Council. Naija News reports that this follows a six-hour discussion on Monday night in Abuja, where the Federal Government affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to increasing the proposed N60,000 minimum wage. The agreement specifies, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is dedicated to establishing a National Minimum Wage exceeding N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will meet daily over the next week to finalize a suitable National Minimum Wage.” Organized Labour also resolved to “immediately convene…

The Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform Committee has unveiled plans to transition from monthly to daily disbursement of allocations across the three tiers of government. This is in a bid to revamp the Federation Account Allocation Committee disbursement mechanism. The committee’s Chairman, Taiwo Oyedele, disclosed this while speaking at a public consultation workshop in Abuja on Monday. He emphasied the need to modernise the current system which he likened to antiquated practices dating back to 1814. Under the proposed reform, FAAC will adopt a daily disbursement strategy, a departure from the traditional monthly allocation meetings. “We believe the system…

The Organised Labour has called on its members to remind them that the strike which commenced yesterday will continue today pending the outcome of a meeting with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage by 10am. Labour whose leaders had a successful meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume,  and other government officials on Monday reached a resolution that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is committed to a new minimum wage higher than N60,000. Vanguard had reported how Organised Labour negotiators had walked out of the meeting for a third time, over the…

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…