Day: May 29, 2024

‘Bottled-Up Anger’: Why Okada Riders Attacked Lagos Police Station

When armed okada riders stormed a police station in the Ipaja area of Lagos State on Monday in protest, police officers responded with gunshots. From interviews with multiple sources who witnessed the violence on Tuesday, FIJ has gathered that one of the two persons who were severely injured during the attack has died. According to […]

Silent crisis: 6m Nigerians have thyroid disease, say experts

Despite the prevalence of thyroid disease in Nigeria, awareness of the disease has remained low even as the patients encounter challenges seeking treatment due to the unavailability of proper drugs. This is coming as experts say that about 300 million people live with this condition in the world while two to six million Nigerians are […]

FG begins roll out of free 1m gas cylinders to boost clean cooking

As part of its effort to promote clean cooking energy for families across the country, the Federal Government, FG, yesterday commenced the free distribution of gas cylinders with a target of moving at least one million homes to clean cooking gas by 2030. The programme, which is under the ‘Decade of Gas’ initiative, tagged LPG grassroots […]

Strike looms as minimum wage talks end in deadlock again

ABUJA — Indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government and organised labour are heading for a showdown over a new minimum wage as the 6th meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the new National Minimum Wage, NNMW, ended in another stalemate. Organised labour’s negotiating team for the second time in two weeks, however, walked out […]

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