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Amid calls for a needed increase in the N30,000 national minimum wage, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has disclosed that his and other ministers’ monthly salary is N942,000 after taxation. Ngige, who was speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, also said they don’t have allowances as ministers except duty allowance when […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has banned the importation of Indomie noodles into the country. The Director General of the Agency, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this in an interview with journalists, on Monday. The Nigerian regulatory body took the action amid investigation by Taiwan and Malaysia authorities which reportedly […]

The National Population Commission (NPC) says the 2023 Population and Housing Census was postponed due to the government’s transition programme and the post-election mood in the country. Inuwa Jalingo, the 2023 Census manager and director, National Population Commission (NPC), said this at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday, as he urged Nigerians to dismiss misconceptions that […]

In the Netflix docuseries about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the director of the film doesn’t paint the best picture of Thomas Markle. Meghan’s father is accused of accepting money for speaking to the press and revealing details about his estranged daughter. Meghan also reveals she never got along with her two siblings either, Samantha […]

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has concluded plans to pair the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, with Senator Jibrin Barau as Senate president and deputy respectively, Daily Trust has exclusively gathered. Akpabio and Barau are among the nine contenders for the Senate presidency of the 10th assembly, expected to be inaugurated on […]

The Presidency said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has subdued insurgency in the country.It also said the government should not be blamed for not bringing back all the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in April 2014. Recall that the Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed thousands of lives, began in 2009 in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has described former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, and other key opposition figures as victims of over confidence. Although the president did not mention their names specifically, he said while the All Progressives Congress (APC) was working hard to retain power, the combined opposition was basking in over confidence. The President […]

The Federal Government says it has spent $1.2million (about N560m) to transport Nigerians stranded in Sudan by road to safe places where they can be flown home. The government also said no Nigerian had died in the fight between warring military factions in Sudan so far. The Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says he has been able to run for the office of the President of Nigeria since 1993 without any controversy because he is free from drugs and identity scandals, unlike the President -Elect, Bola Tinubu. Reacting to Tinubu’s response in which he described Atiku […]

The candidate of Labour Party, Obi has accused INEC of bias, describing as embarrassing the insistence of the electoral umpire that Tinubu won the election and that the petitions challenging the declaration should be dismissed. Obi said it was bizzare that INEC, which ought to be neutral, filed a preliminary objection to the petitions challenging […]

A fresh motion on notice seeking to stop the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been instituted at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The fresh suit is instituted by a presidential candidate in the 2019 Presidential election and constitutional lawyer, Ambrose Owuru and the defunct […]

Ninety-six per cent of women who contested for various positions in the just concluded 2023 general elections lost to their male counterparts, Daily Trust reports. A total of 1,553 women were on the ballot for the presidential, governorship, national and state assemblies’ elections held on February 25 and March 18, this year. Out of a total […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP in the February 25 election and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi said on Monday in Awka that he had no reason to take a rest after the 2023 presidential campaigns and the election that followed, arguing that those who had to rest had their […]

Two of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have escaped from their captors. Sources told Daily Trust that the girls escaped from Sambisa forest, on Sunday, as a result of intense military operations. A security source said the escapees were identified as Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus. “One is from Chibok and the other one from Dzilang […]

The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, returned to the country after holidaying in Paris, France, for 34 days. Tinubu who was accompanied by his wife, Remi and son, Seyi, arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 4.40 pm to a rousing welcome by All Progressives Congress governors, National Assembly leaders and scores of […]

Nigerians stranded in Sudan will be evacuated by road, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama.  Many are stranded in the North African country following a power tussle that has resulted in a crisis. The development has led to calls for the evacuation of the nation’s citizens. But speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Onyeama said […]

Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government. This implies that other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit. For instance, university workers, who are under […]