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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.

While the state radio station, Radio Benue Makurdi, earlier broke the news of the speakers covid-19 status during its 5pm news broadcast, it was officially confirmed in press releases from the House of Assembly and Speaker’s Chief Press Secretary at about 8:30pm on Sunday, all made available to National Record.

The SPN said a strong and united labour is desirable at this point against the backdrop of the fact that several interests of Nigeria’s working people are being trampled upon. The SPN said one of such interests in need of a common front for struggle is the new N30,000 national minimum wage which has remained unimplemented in a number of states over a year after it became law.

Hon. Nwajuiba, who directed school owners to prepare and comply with the guidelines, said schools are to undertake self-assessment and send feedback to State Ministries of Education not later than July 29, 2020 after which further consultations with relevant stakeholders will be held to review the situation before a decision on a specific date for reopening or otherwise would be arrived at.

CISLAC made the call in a press release made available to National Record on Wednesday in Abuja. The press release, entitled: “MAGU’S SUSPENSION: CISLAC CALLS FOR THOROUGH INVESTIGATION,” stated that due to the unclear situation of what the real issues are, there are concerns and conflicting signals being passed to the general public.

In a press release dated July 7, 2020, entitled: “A DISCLAIMER ON THE POSITION OF NATIONAL RECORD ON THE PROBE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND,” Comrade Khaleel denied making the comments credited to him by National Record. “I wish to unequivocally disclaim the malicious and blatant lie that I made such comments to National Record or any other news medium,” he asserted.

The NLC, speaking through one of its two representatives on the Governing Board of the NSITF, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel, who is also NLC’s National Treasurer as well as National President of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), told National Record that there obviously seems to be confusion around the suspension of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, three Executive Directors and a number of other top management staff of the NSITF by the Minister of Labour and Employment on Thursday, July 2nd 2020.