President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, signed the 2019 Appropriation Bill. Present at the State House during the ceremony where, Buhari signed the budget, were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Danjuma …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the new minimum wage will take effect from April 18, 2019, when it was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Federal Government on May 14, 2019 inaugurated a committee to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries arising …

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, particularly …

The Indigenous People of Biafra said on Sunday former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment on “Fulanisation” and “Islamisation” of the country had come too late. Obasanjo had in a recent comment decried the high level of insecurity in the country, regretting that both Boko Haram and herdsmen acts of violence were …

The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the National Judicial Council to dismiss a petition written by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court. The judge had ruled in Okorocha’s favour in a fundamental rights enforcement suit he filed against …

Anti-corruption advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has sued Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged poor funding of primary education in his state. In the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos, the group urged the court to compel Okowa “to explain the disparity between budgetary …

Some elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State have opposed purported subtle moves to consider Godswill Akpabio for a ministerial appointment. Their protestation is coming barely 48 hours to the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office on May 29, 2019. Speaking …

Gunmen on Sunday at Gbarantoru community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, abducted the wife of a lecturer with the Niger Delta University. Sources in the community told the Newsmen that the incident occurred early on Sunday and that the gunmen fired many shots to announce their arrival. The gunmen reportedly entered …

Four persons were critically injured on Sunday when a two-storey building collapsed in Owerri, Imo State. The incident, which happened at 4:34pm at Number 10, Amaram Extension Street, less than a kilometer from Dan Anyiam Stadium, where the governor-elect held a nondenominational church service ahead of his inauguration next Wednesday, …

Many students were injured at the Community Secondary School, Oroworukwo in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when an unidentified student allegedly opened a teargas canister in the classroom. Some of the students, who were almost choked by the smoke from the canister, were seen in a video clip that …