The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given state governments an ultimatum of 1 December 2024, to implement the new minimum wage. It also accused fuel marketers of inflating petrol prices, claiming the pump price is significantly higher than the actual market value. The NLC contended that Nigerians were being exploited, with citizens enduring heightened suffering and hunger due to government …

The Federal Government has called on state governors to establish Safe School Response Coordination Centres to forestall attacks and kidnappings in schools. The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Yusuf Sununu, made this submission while inspecting facilities at the National Safe School Response Coordination Centre located at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) headquarters on Friday in Abuja. …

Amid our current economic challenges, it has become obvious that all hands must be on deck as we search for lasting solutions. It does not matter what our political interests and affiliations might be; what we have on our hands calls for patriotism, collaboration and sense of national pride. Hunger and anger go hand- in-hand, and the last thing we …

The federal and state governments are discussing  the prospect of state police instead of the vigilantes that are being used in some states, according to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mallam Mohammed Idris. Modalities for state police and addressing security issues are to be discussed further at National Economic Council, the Presidency said. Reporting on the Thursday’s meeting …

A former Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora has disclosed that some state governors were responsible for the destruction of the local government administration in the country. Mamora, who served as speaker from June 1999 to June 2003, added that the major reason for local government administration’s collapse was due to the request of some chairmen …

The Nigerian critics’ community is unfair to the greater majority of the population! Since the advent of the so-called democracy in the country in 1999, a disproportionate majority of critics and public policy analysts focus on the government at the centre while most states are underserved by these critics and analysts. Yes, the policy decisions of the federal government have …