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Minimum wage: Tinubu’s meeting with labour deadlocked as labour insists on N250,000
The closed-door meeting between President Bola Tinubu and labor leaders over the minimum wage has ended in a deadlock. Mr. President called the...
Just In: Pres. Tinubu, Labour Leaders In Closed-Door Meeting Over Minimum Wage
President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of the organized labour in the country are currently in a closed-door meeting over a new national...
Breaking: Supreme Court grants local governments financial autonomy
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it is unconstitutional for state governors to withhold or tamper with funds allocated to local government...
Just In: Pres. Tinubu invites labour for minimum wage talks
President Bola Tinubu has invited the organized labour, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC),...
Breaking: Pres. Tinubu sets up ministry to address farmer-herder crisis
President Bola Tinubu has announced the creation of the Ministry of Livestock Development. Tinubu also inaugurated a presidential committee on livestock at the...
NNPC retail outlets extend hours of operation to ease tightness of fuel
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has announced that all its retail stations serving Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) will now operate...
Nigeria’s debt level of N121.67trn remains within safe limits, says DMO
In spite of the increase in Nigeria’s total debt stock from N97.34 trillion in December 2023 to N121.67 trillion in March 2024, the...
Breaking: Pres. Tinubu gets second term as ECOWAS chairman
The ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government has re-elected President Bola Tinubu for another one-year term. Persecondnews reports that Tinubu’s first...
CJN swears in daughter-in-law, Wike’s daughter, 10 other new FCT High Court judges July 10
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will, on Wednesday, July 10, swear in the 12 newly appointed judges of the...
As food crisis persists, 82 million Nigerians may face severe hunger, says UN
Amid food insecurity in Nigeria, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an arm of the United Nations, has warned that by 2030, about...
Updated: Tinubu inaugurates Presidential Economic Coordination Council, announces 2m bpd benchmark in few months
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday inaugurated the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) and launched the Economic Stabilization Programme to ensure food security, improved...
Samoa agreement will not harm Nigerian interests, FG assures
Minister of Information Mohammed Idris has given assurances that President Bola Tinubu will not sign any international agreement that would harm Nigeria’s interests....
Labour Party in landslide victory as Sunak concedes defeat in UK polls
Labour has won the UK general election and is heading for a landslide, with results from more than 500 of the 650 parliamentary...
Nigeria clinches right to host African Energy Bank headquarters
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, has stated that Nigeria has been chosen as the host country for the...
Just In: FG Commissions 12 NNPC CNG Stations in Abuja, Lagos
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, through its retail outlets and partners, has inaugurated 12 CNG stations strategically located in Abuja and Lagos...
Breaking: Rivers crisis: Defected 25 lawmakers win at Appeal Court
The Court of Appeal has nullified an order of the Rivers High Court that stopped 25 members of the State House of Assembly...
