The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, on Monday said the current salaries of federal lawmakers cannot take them home to do the jobs they were elected to do. While stressing that the take home pay of the average lawmaker is a ‘far cry’ from what people insinuate, Kalu called for understanding,…
The Lagos police command has exhibited an unprecedented magnanimous character by distributing water and biscuit to protesters in the state. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) kicked-off a two day protest against hardship in the country this morning and so far, Lagos police command has been supportive. Despite warning against such protest some days back, the…
TWELVE years after it received the Stephen Oronsaye Report, the Federal Government, on Monday, approved the implementation of some of its recommendations to reduce the cost of governance. Consequently, 29 government agencies will be merged even as eight parastatals will be subsumed into eight other agencies. More so, four agencies have been relocated to four…
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Bayelsa State are currently protesting the high cost of living in the country in Yenagoa, the state capital. They are marching towards the Government House gate in the state capital. Policemen are providing protection for the NLC protesters to prevent hoodlums from hijacking the rally. Details later…
Two major opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, have thrown their weight behind the two-day protest declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress. This was even as the ruling All Progressives Congress expressed concern that the protest may be hijacked. In separate interviews, the opposition parties told The PUNCH on Monday that the…
Hundreds of protesters led by the Nigerian Labour Congress on Tuesday stormed the streets of Jos, the Plateau State capital. The protesters who gathered at the Secretariat Flyover bridge lamented the economic hardship and insecurity being faced by Nigerians in the state and other parts of the country. Describing the situation as unbearable, the protesters…
In what appears as irreversible, Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN has said power supply to the North-East will drop by 5 Megawatts. Power supply challenges in the country got to the peak yesterday as suspected insurgents vandalised two power transmission towers along Gombe-Damaturu 330kV line. The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, in a statement in…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has said the EFCC had recovered over N60bn and $10m, in less than four months since he assumed office. Olukoyede, speaking on Saturday in Lagos as the guest lecturer at the 20th-anniversary lecture of the Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resources Centre, said…
The Plateau State Emergency Management Agency has demanded a thorough investigation into the fire incident at the IDPs hostel in Shendam Local Government Area. PLASEMA made its demand in a letter to the Nigerian Police Force, the state Fire Service, and Shendam LGA. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the fire incident occurred at…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has alleged that the State has perfected plans to launch attack against the two-day nationwide peaceful rallies it scheduled for February 27 and 28. The President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, made the allegation in a statement on Sunday Ajaeor spoke in the statement he personally signed in Abuja. In…
