Author: National Record

The officers, the statement said, were suspended due to alleged infractions on the extant Financial Regulations and Procurement Act, and other acts of gross misconduct.

According to the NLC in the statement entitled; “The Nigeria Labour Congress Condemns and Rejects the Increase in the Price of Petrol (Premium Motor Spirit),” the PPPRA contradicted itself when it said that the latest price increase was an “advisory” meant to regulate a product that government claims had been de-regulated.

In consideration of a better old age for workers, the Act established a CPS as a panacea to old age poverty and destitution, especially for those who had been on paid employment in their active age. The CPS guarantees pension, which is an amount of money paid regularly and periodically to a member of the scheme who is no longer capable of working as a result of either ill-health or old age.

Our findings indicate that not only was the commissioner absent, the House said it is not aware of the dire situation posed by the pollution of some key sources of water by Dangote Group of Companies. The House also said it has also no schedule on its agenda for today to see the Honourable Commissioner for Water Resources and Environment.

After I left, I understand that the Joint Committees purportedly suspended the work of the Selection Committees nationwide until they decide how the programme should be run and who should be in those Committees. My opinion is that it is tantamount to challenging the powers of Mr. President.

Comrade Wabba said the “savage treatment of migrant workers has become rampant in the Libyan city of Tarhuna” and declaring the NLC stands in solidarity with the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) and all African workers in condemning “this un-African, evil, and barbaric development.”

Describing the situation as most unfortunate, the NLC said the silence of NERC on this matter bellows louder than the obscene and hollow threat by DISCOs to make life even more difficult for Nigerians who are still grappling with the socio-economic dislocations occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Saga of the polluted waters of many communities in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State continues as its youth, under the aegis of Edumoga Youth Movement (EYM), take up the fight to confront Dangote Group of Companies even as the Benue State Government braces to take sterner action against the company.

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, who delivered judgment in the no-case submission filed by the defendants, discharged and acquitted Senator Moro on seven out of the 11 count-criminal charges relating to money laundering and obtaining by false pretence.

Little Ochanya died on October 17, 2018 due to complications arising from the alleged sexual molestation she suffered at the hands of Mr. Ogbuja and son.