NATIONAL Convener of Labour & Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), Comrade Tony Erha, has stressed the importance of retaining the expatriate employment levy [EEL] despite mounting pressure for its cancellation by some interest groups. The EEL, together with the handbook, was…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri BORNO State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has commissioned 100 housing units in the first phase of Nasarawa Technology Village Housing Estate, Karu. The Borno State Governor also performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the Technology Hub and…
IN a bid to bolster its small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Kenya has launched a groundbreaking project worth $51.7 million funded by the World Bank. Rebecca Miano, the cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Investments, Trade, and Industry, made the…
IN a significant development toward stabilizing Libya, leaders from different factions have reached a crucial agreement to establish a unified government tasked with overseeing the country’s long-delayed elections. The heads of the East Libya-based parliament, the Tripoli-based High Council of…
THE court sacked the Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede-led Chairman Caretaker Committee. A National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja on Monday affirmed Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa as the validly elected President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). The court…
DURING the build up to the primary elections by the three dominant parties in Edo State, one of the most talked about social phenomenon by the electorates was Identity Politics. This promiscuously used social construct which became something of noise…
IMMEDIATE past Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Architect Gabriel Yakubu Aduku, is dead. Aduku, born on January 3, 1944, reportedly slumped while addressing a meeting of Igala people in the United States of America. The visioneer of Community Reporters,…
NIGERIA is at a crossroads and Nigerians are trying to find the responses to an economic crisis and currency turmoil. Of course, all manner of symptoms keep appearing! Towards the end of February, Governor Biodun Oyebanji unveiled a N12 billion…
FOLLOWING recent developments concerning the Benin-Ologbo-Sapele Road Construction project, leading civil society organizations in Nigeria commend the proactive stance taken by the Honourable Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, in calling out the private foreign company responsible for the construction. Mr.…
PRECISELY five years ago, July 19, 2018, I forewarned in an article titled: “Avoiding The Road To Kigali”, published by countless newspapers, home and away, when President Muhammadu Buhari’s bigotry instinct pushed him to unleash his ethnic Fulani Herdsmen terrorists…
