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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the new N70,000 national minimum wage into law.   The President signed the bill during a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa on Monday, July 29, 2024, in Abuja.   Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and other members of the National Assembly leadership joined the FEC for the ceremony.   This marks the first time since the start of the current democratic dispensation that the Council, presided over by…

The Association of Corporate Online Editors (ACOE)has present to the Nigerians the Public Perception Poll on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu One Year in office.   The perception Poll was put together by the association.   Read the outcome of the perception Poll in full;   A majority of Nigerians (68%) do not think President Bola Tinubu’s first year in office has been successful including 42% of those who believe his time in office has been a major failure. Despite this characterization from the majority of Nigerians, President Tinubu still has…

The Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) FCT Correspondents Chapel, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to unveil his administration’s plan and agenda on safety measures and protection for the media practitioners and workers in Nigeria.   The Union has observed the toxic and hostile environment in which Nigerian journalists have been operating over the years, describing the situation as absurd, ridiculous and unacceptable.   NUJ stated this on Friday in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Jide Oyekunle, Chairman of FCT Correspondents Chapel, and Raphael Oni, the Secretary, on the…

The Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering (NASME), Nigerian Army College of Environmental Science and Technology (NACEST) and Headquarters, 401 Special Forces Brigade, all in Makurdi, Benue State, have poured encomium on the Managers of NYSC for grooming Youth Corps Members for leadership roles and also exposing them to entrepreneurship training in order to become self-employed.   The Commandant of NASME, Major General Adams Guni Audu, Rector, NACEST, Major General AP Oguntola and Commander, 401 Special Forces, Brigadier General A Rabiu gave the commendation today when the Director General of…

The operatives of the FCT police command, on April 27, 2024, at about 8:00 p.m., arrested two female suspects, Kulu Dogonyaro and Elizabeth Ojah, in connection to the trafficking of five children.   The suspects who attempted to escape arrest from Sokoto police operatives, were intercepted and arrested by FCT police operatives at Kagini junction, Abuja, while suspiciously conveying five (5) children into the Federal Capital Territory.   The FCT police command, in the spirit of oneness, have now handed the suspects and victims over to Sokoto state police command…

Nigerian afrobeat musician Bisade Ologunde is better known by his stage name, Lagbaja. His signature face mask denotes him as the country’s everyman—the faceless individual.   As a Yoruba word, Lágbájá means a person whose name and identity are purposely concealed or an invisible person. He is somebody, anybody, and everyone. He is the soul of the community.   It was pretty interesting, if not surprising, when in March 2021, the Chief of Army Staff, now deceased General Ibrahim Attahiru, appointed Major General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja as General Officer Commanding…

Police operatives attached to Niger Police Command on 30th January,2024 at about 2100hrs, received information at Bosso Div that, on the same date at about 1800hrs, one Adamu Danga Rijau aged 62yrs of Bosso Lowcost area of Minna was sighted around Numui cemetery without trousers, on top of a minor girl of about 6yrs of age, while the suspect took to his heels from the spot.   However, before the Police Division could mobilize to the scene, it was reported that an alarm was raised by the witness. Consequently, the…