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On Thursday Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu celebrates the first anniversary of his second and final tenure in office. For many Lagosians, the celebration comes with several bags of feelings and emotions; however, the governor has made it clear that election days are over and it’s time for serious business of governance. Although there are divergent opinions about his performance so far and […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it had reinstated the suspended social investment programme, disclosing the scheme would provide direct payments to 75 million Nigerians in 50 million households to reduce the suffering of citizens, especially vulnerable groups. It stated that the cash transfer programme was overhauled to tackle fraud. The Minister of Finance and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lagos State Government says it has trained 3,748 youths in creative skills and announced that additional 5,000 youths would be trained over the next three years. The Commissioner for Tourism, Art and Culture, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka, said this during a ministerial press briefing on Monday in Alausa, Ikeja. She disclosed that the state government is […]
LAGOS — President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Joe Ajaero, and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, at this year’s annual Vanguard Economic Discourse, traded words over Organised Labour’s N615,000 minimum wage demand which has been reduced to N497,000. While Mr Rewane contended that the minimum wage being demanded by […]
Director-General of Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Mr. Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, has urged representatives of organised labour to embrace the proposed N57,000 new minimum wage or be prepared to serve as the undertaker of organised business by insisting on N400,000 as minimum wage.The N400,000 placed on the negotiation table by organised labour represents 1,233 percentage increase […]
When the All Progressives Congress (APC) dislodged then ruling People’s Democratic Party in the 2015 presidential polls and a taciturn, supposedly no-nonsense General Muhammadu Buhari emerged as president, many Nigerians thought the nation was a few steps away from attaining El-dorado. Eight years after Buhari’s tenure, we now know better. The Buhari administration couldn’t combat […]
The Federal Government has apologised to Nigerians for the pain and economic hardship being experienced in the country, noting, however, that the policies of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government are on track despite the currency crisis and inflation, which have frustrated economic growth. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, on Wednesday at […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria at the resumption of the tripartite committee meeting today in Abuja, reduced their earlier demand of of a new minimum wage from N615,000 to N500,000. Nigerian Tribune gathered from a source who attended the meeting. Recall that the high-level meeting was stalled on Tuesday, following the […]
