President Bola Tinubu on Thursday increased the Federal Government’s offer on the national minimum wage from N62,000 to N70,000, with an assurance that it will be reviewed after three years, instead of five years. Tinubu said he had to intervene in the negotiations, knowing the economic challenges faced by many Nigerians, and the need to provide urgent succour. He said this at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. “I have heard all your presentations. You came here with the intention to get something…
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. Gunmen rain bullets on reinstated deputy Gov Shaibu’s convoy in Benin . APC guber candidate, Okpebholo hospitalised, police detail killed . Three other policemen, many PDP, APC supporters seriously injured Ben Ogbemudia Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, on Thursday afternoon, escaped an assassination in Benin City, the state capital. During the attack, a policeman attached to the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebolo, was killed while three other Mobile police officers also attached to the APC flagbearer were seriously injured. Okphebolo and other dignitaries were part of the crowd that went to the…
By Victoria Ayuwei His hobbies – reading, traveling and jogging – hardly give much away about the persona of the unassuming Taraba State-born, astute, seasoned marine technologist, now given presidential authorisation to lead the nation’s premier maritime agency, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. Meet Abubakar Dantsoho, PhD, highly analytical, data-driven, focused and versatile team-player, with over 25 years professional experience in maritime technology, international transport and port management. Even conservative maritime sector gurus are thumbing up President Bola Tinubu’s nifty pick for the NPA leadership. And not without good reason. It is common knowledge that by providing access to global…
A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a petition against Justice Rilwan M. Aikawa, the judge presiding over his case against the Kaduna State House of Assembly at the Federal High Court, Kaduna. The former governor in his petition filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja by his counsel, Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN), alleged bias, injustice and denial of fair hearing. In June 2024, El-Rufai had filed a fundamental rights case at the court, challenging the report by the House which accused him and some government officials of misappropriating N423 billion on the grounds that the House did…
A 2023 presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, has called for stricter discipline within the administration, particularly regarding the ongoing political situation in Rivers State. Dele Momodu made this known in an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday. “You must enforce Discipline as a leader,” Momodu stated in the open letter PUNCH online gleaned from his X handle. He specifically addressed the actions of the former governor of Rivers State and current Federal Capital Territory minister, Nyesom Wike. “Your new disciple, Nyesom Wike, has publicly disrespected you in the Fubara matter,” Momodu wrote. PUNCH Online…
US President Joe Biden said Thursday he was extending his student loan forgiveness program by canceling the loans of an additional 35,000 Americans as he seeks reelection. The latest move – amounting to $1.2 billion in student debt – brings to 4.76 million the number of people “who benefitted from our various debt relief actions”, he said in a statement. The borrowers, who will get an average of $35,000 in debt cancellation, include teachers, nurses, police officials and first responders. The announcement came on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump will accept the…
No fewer than 100 psychiatric doctors left the country to practise abroad in the last one year, Prof. Taiwo Obindo, the President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), said on Thursday. Obindo spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos while examining the rate of brain drain in psychiatric profession in Nigeria in 2023. He decried that the psychiatric profession was the worst hit by the trending brain drain syndrome ongoing in the Nigerian medical sector. He said that brain drain was affecting the psychiatric profession more than other professions in terms of the psychiatric nurses,…
Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, has mentored hundreds of young journalists and students of mass communication at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) where he assured them of a promising future for journalism despite technological and economic challenges. Adeola Yusuf, a three-time winner of the Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) who delivered a lecture titled; “Print Media Organisation in Nigeria From Conception To Economic Glory: Weaning The Young Journalists,” at a seminar for 300-level mass communication students of the University, stated that the consistent advancement in technology gives credence to his belief that no journalist who is creative should be…
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has reportedly been admitted in an undisclosed hospital following an attack on his convoy by suspected political thugs in Benin City. A policeman in Okpebholo’s convoy was reportedly killed in the attack, while two others sustained injuries. Okpebholo’s Legislative in charge of Media & Communication, Godswill Inegbe, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday evening. In the statement posted on several WhatsApp platforms, Inegbe said the policeman was killed by suspected political thugs who invaded the Benin Airport when the reinstated deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, and the…
Ben Ogbemudia, Abuja Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, on Thursday afternoon, escaped an assassination in Benin City, the state capital. During the attack, a policeman attached to the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebolo, was killed while three other Mobile police officers also attached to the APC flagbearer’s were seriously injured. Okpebolo and other dignitaries were part of the crowd that went to the Airport to welcome Shaibu back to Benin, the state capital. The alleged assassination attempt on Shaibu occurred barely a day after an Abuja Federal High Court overruled his impeachment by…