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Minimum wage: FG gets 2-week ultimatum as unions threaten strike

  The Federal Government has been given two weeks to implement the new minimum wage of N30, 000 or risk a nationwide strike....

Education in parlous state, overhaul it, Pastor Bakare tells FG

  The founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has called on the Buhari administration to overhaul the nation’s education system....

New Minimum Wage: FG Backtracks, Says Can’t Meet Labour’s Demand

By Kunle Akinsola   Citing dwindling economy, the Nigerian Government says it cannot meet the demands of workers for the percentage for the...

FG in fresh $2.5bn World Bank loan deal

  Indications have emerged that the Nigerian Government is negotiating another World Bank loan to the tune of $2.5 billion after it took...

FG, Labour talks on minimum wage end in deadlock as threat of strike rises

The Federal Government and the labour unions on Monday failed to reach an agreement on consequential adjustment on the N30,000 minimum wage. The...

Iranian Cleric Ayatollah Mohsen Araki’s phone call with Zakzaky in India angered FG

Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohsen Araki looked to have sparked a potentially damaging row with Nigeria on Friday after speaking with Sheikh Zakzaky over...

FG may increase VAT to fund new national minimum wage- Minister 

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, has said that the Federal Government is considering increasing Value Added Tax (VAT),...

SERAP drags FG, states to ECOWAS Court over ‘attacks on journalists, bloggers’

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the...

US Secretary of State urges FG to hold election free of ‘intimidation’

The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has called on the federal government and political leaders including the military to ensure that...

Amidst feud over revenue, FG, states, LGs share N668.8bn

The Ministry of Finance, has released  the sum of N668.898bn to the three tiers of government for May, according to a statement, by Mr...

FG calls for unity and renewed commitment to solve killings by herdsmen

The Federal Government Sunday called for a new spirit of unity to solve the nation’s challenges, from economic disparity, climate change and killings...

Diezani, Oduah and 21 others in fresh FG’s looters list

The federal government on Sunday night released 23 additional names of alleged treasury looters during the Goodluck Jonathan’s government. In a statement by minister...

Contaminated water: FG agrees to publish details of spending, locations of projects

Following a Freedom of Information request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), the Federal Government has agreed to publish details of spending...

Environmental Issues Root Cause of Farmers/Herders’ Clashes,Says FG

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has blamed the incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen on environmental, rather than ethnic...

FG’s Agric Revolution Is No Fluke – Minister

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the present administration’s agricultural revolution is not a mere propaganda but a...

Buhari administration unveils new initiatives to counter violent extremism

Facing increased threat and criticism of violent extremism at home, the federal government on Tuesday  unveiled new initiatives to fight homegrown violent extremists,...