The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will collaborate with the Federal Government to stop out-sourcing of jobs in the telecom sector, among others. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. “In this New Year, we shall work […]
The Ministry of Budget and National Planning has described as erroneous a story in the Monday, January 2, 2017 edition of Thisday newspaper, with the headline, ‘PANDEF Expresses Displeasure over N29 billion Budgeted to Fight Militancy in 2017’. Akpandem James, Media Adviser to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said […]
Some labour leaders on Monday in Abuja said that the formation of a new labour centre would be a major setback to realising the demands for a new national minimum wage in the country. The leaders made the assertion when they fielded questions from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on the emergence […]
The Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has kicked off the distribution of 850million Naira ward-based community development programme with the presentation of cheques to some of the benefiting communities. The programme which is in partnership with the World Bank will see 58 communities across the three senatorial districts benefiting from the project. At the project […]
Mayowa Okekale, Abuja Senate President Bukola Saraki on Saturday pledged to intervene in the nation’s aviation sector, which has suffered major setbacks, with the purported non-calibration of all 30 Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) and VHF Omnidirectional Ranges (VHFs) that are operational in the country. Saraki made the pledge in his response to a social media […]