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The House of Representatives has invited regulators and operators in the telecommunication sector over poor coverage and spread of their services in Nigeria. The invitees, including the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, Nigerian Communications Commission, MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Globacom and 9Mobile, are to be grilled at an...

Lecturers, doctors and other categories of civil servants under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure, Consolidated Medical Salary Scale, popularly known as CONMESS, CONHESS, CONTISS salary scales, will benefit from an undisclosed percentage of pay rise, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, disclosed on Monday. Speaking during...

Trade Union Congress, TUC, has conferred its Most Outstanding Female Worker Award on the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan. A statement made available on Monday by M. A. Ahmed, Director of Communications in the Head of Service, said, said the award was confered at...

Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said that the four new emirates created by his administration have come to stay. Speaking during the Workers’ Day celebrations held at Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano, Ganduje said God will not bring any body that will destroy them. The governor had split...

In what appeared a pledge to embark on wage increase in the middle of the year, President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has vowed to give more than a minimum wage to Nigerian Workers, promising instead, to give them a “living wage”. “In the Nigeria I shall have the honour and privilege...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates who sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to start checking their results on Tuesday. The directive was given via a statement issued on Monday, May 1, by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, after the board’s emergency management meeting...

The Organised Labour on Monday demanded the review of retirement age for all public servants from 60 to 65 years and from 35 years to 40 years of service. The Organised Labour made the demand during this year’s Workers’ Day Celebration with the theme, ‘Workers’ Rights and Socioeconomic Justice’. Past...

Senate has indicted the management of the Bank of Agriculture, BoI in Kaduna for not being able to account for N3.2 billion loan disbursed to 10 vendors out of N3.6 billion to purchase tractors and other equipment for allocation to end users. The indictment was sequel to the 2016 report...

*Declares his administration “rudderless, bereft of ideas, incompetent *Says that Nigeria still exist as one entity because of ability of workers *Commends resilience of workers, asks them to prepare for  challenges ahead By Michael Paul  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said with the 8 years tenure of President Muhammadu...

Ahead of the inauguration of a new President on May 29, 2023, Nigeria’s Boeing 737 Presidential jet has been flown out of the country for comprehensive maintenance. Villa sources told our correspondent that NAF 001, which has served the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the past eight years...