Author: National Record

Criminal DNA databases produced no hits, sweeps of crime scenes no fingerprints and hefty rewards no definitive tips. But Paul Holes, an investigator and DNA expert, had a hunch he could create a road map to the killer through his genetics.

“The Nigeria Labour Congress rejects this new stamp duty policy on rents and leases as it would worsen the deplorable situation faced by Nigerian workers most of whom, unfortunately, are tenants. It is also alarming that we are having a rash of hike in taxes and user access fees when other countries are offering palliatives to their citizens,”

At the moment, the organisation is undergoing a double-barrelled investigation. While one panel was instituted by Dr Ngige following his alleged approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend NSITF’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, Mr Adebayo Somefun, three Executive Directors and other top management staff; another probe is concurrently ongoing at the House of Representatives.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on July 2, 2020, suspended the officers on allegations of financial infractions and violation of procurement procedures. According to him, the suspended officers allegedly lavished N3.4 billion on “non-existent” staff training split into about 196 different consultancy contracts in order to evade the Ministerial Tenders Board and Federal Executive Council approvals.

A representative of the UN in Nigeria, Ms Ulla Mueller, said Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) is a “devastating occurrence that happens every day in Nigeria,” adding that it is a reality that women and girls live with and fear every day.

The greatest challenge the NLC has so far faced since the administration of the affairs of Congress were returned to elected trade union leaders in January 1999, which was self-inflicted, was the post-10th National Delegates Conference 2015 crisis. As much as we would have wished it never happened, it did and the labour movement, especially the NLC, had its image dented. The crisis took away our solidarity, which is the one pillar that makes our organisation, the NLC, strong. Employers, especially the federal government, surely celebrated the conflict albeit quietly because the government as the biggest employer in Nigeria was the beneficiary while it lasted.

DSM noted that it hoped that the NLC has learnt a lesson from the conflict in terms of “what led to the split in the first place, and what happened since” as a basis for building a formidable trade union federation.

Mr Opuama, in challenging Ewhrudjakpo’s qualification to stand for election, alleged that there were discrepancies in the name of the deputy governor as indicated on his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate.

Comrade Mr Wabba was in Jalingo to commiserate with the state’s workers and the family of the late Chairman of NLC in the state, Comrade Peter Gambo, who died on Wednesday last week after a brief illness at the Taraba State Specialist Hospital, Jalingo. He was serving his second term as the state NLC chairman, and a pastor with Christ Glorious Army Church, Jalingo, NAN had reported.

Rafsanjani said CISLAC and TI-Nigeria have followed with keen interest the sad revelations unfolding at the forensic audit probe and commended the House of Representatives as well as others engaged in the process in response to President Buhari’s directive to look into the operations of the NDDC from 2000-2019.