THE Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has expressed concern that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is gradually leading the country into becoming a police state. CNG, in a statement made by its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, and made available to National Record early Sunday morning, stated that it is “worrying that the current administration is becoming more and more intolerant of opposition and criticism and gradually dragging the country towards becoming a police state.” The statement reads in full: “The Coalition of Northern Groups is alarmed by reports that former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba, has…
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By Amos Aar, Makurdi THE Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Titus Uba has commended the Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) for its consistency in the implementation of projects in rural communities across the state. The Speaker, who disclosed this on Saturday while interacting with the Head, Monitoring and Information Management, Federal Projects Support Unit of CSDA in Nigeria, Mr Adeniyi Oduneye, at his residence in Makurdi, capital of Benue State, said the agency has completed over forty rural projects with many others ongoing in Vandeikya local government area of the state where he hails from. Hon Uba…
Organised labour in Plateau State has called on the state government to activate the mechanism for the immediate implementation of the new national minimum wage for the state’s civil servants. In a letter to the Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong, entitled; “Implementation of the 2019 New National Minimum Wage for Plateau State/Local Government Workers”, the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, Plateau State Chapter; expressed its concern on the “long silence” from the state government on the implementation of the new wage. The letter, dated 14th August, 2020, and routed through the Office of the Plateau State Head of…
Union’s Secretariat Shut Till Further Notice Exactly a week to the Emergency Delegates’ Conference of the National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco employees (NUFBTE), the Lagos Division of the National Industrial Court has through and interim injunction stopped the union from conducting the conference. Comrade Abiodun Philip and other aggrieved members of the union had recently approached the court praying among other things for the stoppage of the union’s emergency Delegates’ conference pending the determination of some substantive issues bordering on the tenure of the current president of the union, Comrade Lateef Idowu Oyelekan and 10 others elected officials…
THE four staff unions in the University of Lagos have rejected and condemned as illegal the removal of the vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Toyin Ogundipe by the university’s council on Wednesday. The unions; Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), in a statement released after a joint meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka, on Thursday, 13th August, 2020 unanimously stated that the removal of Prof. Ogundipe as “violently and most lawlessly violate the law of the…
Governor Ortom, who stated this while interfacing with Benue youth groups at the New Banquet Hall, Government House, Makurdi, to mark this year’s International Youth Day; lamented that the fight against corruption in Nigeria is not real because it is selective and the rule of law is not operational as money meant for medical facilities is embezzled by people who are going about scot free and well-known armed bandits are not apprehended.
The first batch of ten beneficiaries who are from Effeche-Akpalli community in Okpokwu Local Government Area received a total sum of One Million Naira (N1,000,000) on Thursday 6th August, 2020 at the Company’s Mining Site at Effeche.
Sharif, a Tijjaniya musician, residing at Sharifai Quarters was tried for blasphemy against the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in a song clip that went viral on WhatsApp.
According to the NLC, the theme of this year’s International Youth Day; “Youth Engagement for Global Action,” “captures most succinctly the global pulse in response to the prevailing realities. It seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national and global levels is enriching national and multilateral institutions and processes, as well as draw lessons on how youth representation and engagement in formal institutions can be significantly enhanced.”
The SPN, in a press statement on Monday, signed by Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson and Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary, also called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and pro-masses organisations “to join forces with the SPN to offer a solid working class political alternative for workers, youth and poor people who have been allowed to be deceived for far too long by the pro-rich parties of the APC and PDP.”