By Emmanuel Uzodinma After a nationwide protest on Wednesday, the organised Labour has agreed to suspend further action on its opposition to fuel subsidy removal. This was a fallout of a meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the representatives of the workers. At the meeting were the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Senate President Godswill Akpabio has read the names of 19 more ministerial nominees sent by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Among them are Ahmed Gwarzo, Bello Matawalle, Ibrahim Gaidam, Simon Lalong, Adegboyega Oyetola, Lola Adejo, Abdullahi Aliyu, and Abubakar Audu. Last Thursday, ...

By Stephen Angbulu Leaders of the organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria are meeting President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The meeting comes just hours after the unions followed through on their plans to protest the economic ...

Protesters, led by organised labour, have pulled down the gate of the National Assembly in Abuja. The protesters, who had Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, leader, Joe Ajaero, and Festus Osifo of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, leading, asked security operatives stationed at the legislative building ...

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, now Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajiabiamila, has forwarded to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, the remaining list of ministerial nominees. The list is a completion of the remaining 11 states that have not been ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has refuted the claim of President Bola Tinubu that N1 trillion has been saved since his government ceased payment of fuel subsidy. In a nationwide broadcast on Monday, the president revealed that a total of N1 trillion had been saved since subsidy payment was ...

By Williams Anuku The organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) are currently carrying out their mass protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The protesters numbering over 5,000, who have been peaceful, first converged at the Unity ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Wednesday 2nd August 2023 1. The two-day meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, with the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress ...

Protesting members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Oyo State, yesterday, stormed the state secretariat, on the second day of their protest, beating civil servants who refused to join the on-going protest in the state. The protesting NLC members are drawn from various ministries, which ...

The two-day meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, with the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders vowing to begin a nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. This came as oil workers under the aegis of ...

President Bola Tinubu will today send a new batch of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening, The PUNCH has learnt. According to a very reliable source in the Senate, the names would either come on Tuesday night or very early on Wednesday morning. The source exclusively told our ...

Less than  24 hours to Wednesday’s planned nationwide strike and mass protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress, 16 Northern-based civil society groups under the aegis of the Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Organisations have pulled out on the grounds that the indefinite strike action will damage the ...

By Shehu Usman The House of Representatives has welcomed the planned upward review of the national minimum wage, as announced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday during a national broadcast. The lawmakers assured Nigerian workers that they would consider and approve the proposal when ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Tuesday 1st August 2023 1. President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, said the Federal Government of Nigeria has saved N1tn within two months since the removal of petrol subsidy. Tinubu said the money that would ...

The screening of at least three ministerial nominees was put on hold for reasons of age forgery and age falsification, among others, as the Senate commenced the exercise yesterday. Of the 14 nominees listed on the order paper for screening, seven, including immediate past governor of Rivers State, ...

By Williams Anuku My fellow citizens, I want to talk to you about our economy. It is important that you understand the reasons for the policy measures I have taken to combat the serious economic challenges this nation has long faced. 2. I am not going to talk in difficult terms by dwelling on ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday, made a passionate appeal to the conscience of Nigerians to support the subsidy removal policy, as well as other intervention programmes being initiated by his government. He seized the national briefing to adduce reasons for the policy in ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Chief Ajuri Ngelale as Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. A terse statement by Willie Bassey, Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the provision of buses to students’ bodies of all universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across the country. A statement by Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communication and Strategy on ...

The Senate has mandated the President of the Senate,  Senator  Godswill  Akpabio and the entire leadership of the upper chamber to interface between the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC  and the Federal Government in order to avert the intending strike of the NLC. Meanwhile, the President of the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make a broadcast to the nation, today, Monday. Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications & Strategy, disclosed this on Monday in a terse statement. According to him, the broadcast will occur by 7 pm. ...

By Seun Opejobi The Senate on Monday commenced the confirmation hearing of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees. This followed a motion moved by the Senate Leader, Senator Dave Umahi. Last week, Tinubu transmitted a 28-man list of ministerial nominees to the senate for screening. The ...

By Don Silas Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has insisted that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliates can proceed with the August 2 strike and protest as planned. According to Falana, the exercise doesn’t translate to contempt of court. This was contained in a letter ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Monday 31st July 2023 1. The leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was on Sunday returned to the custody of the Department of State Services after being released on ...

The 2023 promotional examinations for federal civil servants will commence on August 14, a memo obtained from the Federal Civil Service Commission by The PUNCH has revealed. The memo, dated July 28, 2023, was signed by the Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, Tukur Ingawa; and addressed to ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress has commenced mass mobilisation ahead of its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal. In a schedule obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, the NLC urged Nigerians to “join us at ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has told the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, that there is no order, be it interim, interlocutory or perpetual, from either the National Industrial Court or any other court restraining Nigerian workers from ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Sunday 30th July 2023 1. Some bandits have killed no fewer than six farmers, including the Vice-Chairman of the Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus-Sunnah, Mallam Yakubu Bugai in the troubled Birnin-Gwari ...

The Federal Government will on Monday meet with the representatives of the organised labour in an effort to prevent the nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress. However, the NLC has advised citizens to stock their homes with food items, medicines and other essential things ahead of ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has disclosed that approximately 14.3 million Nigerians are involved in drug abuse. The agency said the affected Nigerian drugs abusers were within the age range between 15 and 64 years, adding that more women were now involved. The Ogun State Commander of ...

By Victor Ahiuma-Young The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has endorsed the August 2 nationwide strike and mass protests by NLC over the recent hike in pump price of petrol. In a communique issued at the end of the NEC meeting on Thursday, NEC members ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of day 29th July 2023 1. The organised labour, on Friday, walked out of a scheduled meeting with the Presidential Steering Committee on subsidy palliatives at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Joe Ajaero, the ...

Following the submission of the first set of ministerial nominees to the Senate, indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu will restructure some of the ministries of the Federal Government by merging some, creating new ones and scrapping others. Saturday PUNCH investigation revealed that ...

By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Tinubu has expressed the willingness of the Federal Government of Nigeria to support global tech giant Google Incorporated to create one million digital jobs in Nigeria. Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, ...

The Federal Government has approved the upward review of hazard allowance for non-hospital-based health professionals in the country. The government made this known in a circular dated July 26, 2023, and signed by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Salaries, Incomes, and ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The federal government has shifted the date for its new monthly pension payment for pensioners in the parastatals under the Ministry of Power and Transportation. Mr Gbenga Ajayi, Head of Corporate Communications at the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), disclosed ...

By Amos Tauna The Federal Government has approved the payment of N25,000 of peculiar allowance for medical doctors and dentists in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in the federal public service. The approval was contained in a letter dated July 26, 2023, titled ‘Accoutrement allowance for ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Friday 28th July 2023 1. The Senate will, on Monday, commence the screening of the ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Bola Tinubu on Thursday. Speaking shortly after he read the names of the ...

Google has said Nigerians can now use their Verve naira cards to make digital transactions on Play Store, the company’s applications distribution service. In a statement issued yesterday, the company said it was partnering with Verve, the largest domestic card scheme in Africa, to enable ...

The President Bola Tinubu’s administration may create new ministries from the existing ones, Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, disclosed on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the ministerial list was submitted to the National Assembly today by Gbajabiamila ...

By Seun Opejobi President Bola Tinubu transmitted the much-anticipated ministerial list to the Senate on Thursday. The list was presented to the Senate by Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila. The names on the ministerial list include some former state governors, technocrats, and ...

By Ochogwu Sunday President Bola Tinubu has nominated former governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike as his ministers. The Senate President, Goodwill Akpabio unveiled the long awaited list of 28 ministerial nominees during plenary on Thursday. Femi ...

The Federal Government has told the Nigeria Labour Congress that it is legally restrained from embarking on planned nationwide strike against the hike in the price of petrol and the high cost of living in the country. The PUNCH reported on Wednesday that the NLC had given the government a ...

Barring any last-minute change, President Bola Tinubu will, today, send the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, Vanguard has learned. Top on the list for screening are the immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufia, current Special Adviser on ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Thursday 27th July 2023 1. President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, in Abuja appealed to the organised labour to avail him more time to consider their grievances before embarking on any nationwide strike. This ...

By Seun Opejobi President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government is currently meeting with representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC. The emergency meeting is holding at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The meeting was at the instance of the negotiation ...

By Seun Opejobi A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has urged President Bola Tinubu to curb the excesses of the Department of State Services, DSS. Fayose said operatives of the DSS involved in the fight with their counterpart from the Nigeria Correctional Services after the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Wednesday 25th July 2023 1. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed banks to vacate a post-no-debit restriction placed on the bank accounts of 440 individuals and companies. A post-no-debit means ...

The Senate has declared that President Bola  Tinubu will make available the much-expected list of ministerial nominees within the next 48 hours, adding that the President had gone into hiding to avoid undue influence. The Senate also urged  Nigerians to pray for Tinubu to be able to make the ...

By Francis Ugwu The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has declared an indefinite strike. According to Channels Television, NARD announced the strike in a terse statement on Tuesday evening. The demands cited by the association include the immediate payment of the 2023 MRTF, the ...