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THE organised labour movement said while it is not attaching a timeline within which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must submit a new national minimum wage to the National Assembly for promulgation into the law, it does not expect any figure that is less than six figures. By this, labour is expecting a figure that is…
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Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has called on government at all levels to improve the level of security across Nigeria. Atiku made this call on Tuesday while reacting to the reports of the recent attack on Yargoje village in Kankara LGA of Katsina State, which claimed scores of lives and the kidnap of vulnerable women…
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Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has urged President Bola Tinubu to honour Captain J.O. Abalaka, an Army officer who reportedly disarmed a member of the kidnapping gang that abducted him, his dog, and other captives in Kogi State. The incident reportedly occurred while Abalaka was reporting to his new unit at the…
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Gunmen from criminal gangs killed 26 people, including four policemen, and kidnapped dozens more in a raid on a northwestern Nigerian village, the latest in a spate of attacks, police and a local official said. Katsina is one of several states in northwestern and central Nigeria terrorised by heavily armed gangs, who carry out mass…
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The Federal Government has rolled out plans to test-run trains that will operate on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and diesel. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement by the Minister of Transportation, Senator Saidu Ahmed Alkali. “Yesterday (Monday), I conducted an inspection of the Nigeria Railway Corporation Locomotives at the Idu Workshop in the…
