Day: May 3, 2024

LASBCA-ELP INTERACTIVE SESSION…The Built Sector Getting Better

Do you know there is a fencing permit?Do you know that fixing portions of a leaking roof requires approval?How aware are you of the difference in remodeling and renovation? These and many more were the issues the LASBCA-ELP INTERACTIVE SESSION shed light on.The Arc. Gbolahan Oki-led Lagos State Building Control Agency has been a champion […]

Naira depreciates to N1,365/$ in parallel market

The Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,365 per dollar in the parallel market, from N1,320 per dollar on Tuesday. Similarly, the Naira depreciated in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM, to N1,402.67 per dollar. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM rose to N1,402.67 per dollar from N1,390.96 per dollar on Tuesday, […]

Lagos Boats Use Inaccurate Manifests, Risk Fraud, Passenger Safety

The Boat Passengers Manifest meant to carry the necessary details of commuters at the Ikorodu Ferry Terminal is laden with omissions and inaccuracies, FIJ can report. FIJ monitored the passengers’ manifest for about a week of daily boat trips from Ikorodu to Victoria Island and found that the details hardly matched the actual commuters many […]

New minimum wage: How we arrived at N615,000 — Organised Labour

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC said the organised labour took into consideration all the necessary indices before arriving at N615,000 as the new minimum wage The NLC also said that any figure below the N615,000 will become what it described as “a starvation wage” adding that it will condemn Nigerian workers and their families to […]

Healthy diet out of reach as protein prices jump

A healthy diet is out of reach in a country with the second highest burden of stunted children in the world. Soaring prices of fish, meat and eggs pushed the daily cost of a healthy diet for an adult close to N1,000 in March, rising faster than general and food inflation, the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics revealed on Thursday. […]

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