Tag: 000
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Sanwo-Olu repays over N500,000 debt owed by suicidal entrepreneur
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently gave a businessman in the state Abiodun Adeyinka who attempted to jump into the Third Mainland Bridge lagoon during the Eid-el-Kabir festival on Friday,a lifeline Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana said in a statement on Sunday that Mr Abiodun was intercepted from jumping into the lagoon by policemen…
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BREAKING: Funke Akindele, husband sentenced for breaching lockdown order
Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ogba has sentenced sensational actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, Abdulrasheed Bello, better known as JJC Skillz, to three weeks of community service. The court on today also directed them to pay a fine of N100,000 each for violating the government’s social distancing rules by holding a party on Saturday.…
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No state will pay less than N30,000 minimum wage – Governors
Nigeria governors said they cannot backtrack on their decision to pay the N30,000 minimum wage, describing it as “a settled matter”. NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi made the clarification in Abuja while answering questions from newsmen at the end of the forum meeting held at forum Secretariat in Abuja. Fayemi denied…
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FG to renegotiate full implementation of N30,000 minimum wage
The Federal Government is set to reconstitute a new committee to begin fresh negotiations for the full implementation of the new national minimum wage of N30,000. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. “The President has put in place a new committee or…
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CBN begins charges on deposits, withdrawals above N500,000
*Deduction of (3%) N15K on withdrawals above N500, 000 for individual accounts. Deduction of (2%) N10K on deposits above N500, 000 for individual accounts *Corporate accounts: Deduction of (5%) N150k for withdrawals and (3%) N90k processing fee for lodgments of amounts above N3, 000, 000 The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday said that the…
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Minimum Wage: We won’t accept anything below N30,000, Labour tells governors
Organised labour Thursday warned that no state chapter of the labour movement would accept any renegotiation for downward review of the already signed minimum wage law of N30,000 from any state governor. The National President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, made the declaration in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, while presiding…
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I was paid N25,000 after killing Badeh – Suspect confesses
Shuaibu Rabi, One of the prime suspects nabbed in connection with the killing of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Alex Badeh, said he was paid N25,000. Recall that Air Vice-Marshal Badeh was killed on December 18 last year by hoodlums who attacked his convoy on the Keffi- Kaduna Expressway while he was returning…
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EFCC tells court how ex-NNPC GMD, Yakubu concealed $9.7m, £74,000
A Prosecution witness. Sambo Maina on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja how a former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, concealed the sum of $9,772,800 found in his apartment The former NNPC boss is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for…
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[Photos] EFCC probes suspect arrested with $370,000 at Kaduna Airport
The Head of the Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Bappa has assured that the Commission will spare no efforts in investigating the attempt by a certain Adamu Rabiu Mohammed to smuggle $370,000 through the Kaduna International Airport. The spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement…
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NLC, TUC submit new petition, demand increase in minimum wage above N56,000
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have submitted a new request for an increase of the national minimum wage above N56,000 per month to the tripartite committee on minimum wage. This was disclosed by at the 11th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Civil Service Union by the acting NLC…