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A bill that would provide for the documentation and protection of Domestic Workers and Employers of Domestic Workers in the country has passed a second reading in the Senate. If passed by the National Assembly and assented to by the President, the bill will nip in the bud cases of assaults and abuse of domestic workers in Nigeria. Sponsored by Senator Magnus Abe (APC Rivers South-East), the bill does not only seek to protect the domestic workers, but aimed at protecting the employers of domestic workers, adding that a lot of workers are unregistered and not supported by national labour…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and party state chairmen from the North-central geo-political zone, yesterday, endorsed the two candidates of the party for the leadership positions of the 9th National Assembly. According to a statement by Mark Longen, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau on Media and Publicity, the governor stated this while addressing journalists after a closed-door meeting of stakeholders in Asokoro, Abuja. Mr. Lalong said: “A meeting of governors and the party chairmen from North Central today(yesterday) resolved to go along with the decision of the party’s endorsement of Sen. Ahmed Lawan as Senate…

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on the Federal Government to hasten negotiations and release template for implementation of the New Minimum Wage. The President of the congress, Bobboi Kaigama, while reacting to the signing of the 2019 Minmum Wage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, further asked the government to issue circular to the state governments in the country to implement the law without delay. “We appreciate Buhari for the signing. We also congratulate the Nigerian workers for their resilience, perseverance and achievement of the N30,000 minimum wage,” he said. Similarly, Mr. Bension Opia, NLC’s Head of…

Foreign investors have been urged to see the $5 billion foreign investment secured by the Federal Government as a bankable surety by international community to invest massively in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the call in London, on Thursday at a breakfast meeting with investors, lawyers, the business community and diplomats with ties to Nigeria, said the Muhamadu Buhari administration has laid the necessary groundwork for the growth of the nation’s economy. Mohammed said the country as the largest economy and a political powerhouse in Africa represents a highly attractive market and…

The Federal Government intends to collect another external loan of $247.3 million for infrastructural development in the country. The loan package was approved by Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja on Wednesday, April 17, bringing the country’s debt profile to N24.38 trillion. Announcing this after the meeting, Zainab Ahmed, the Finance Minister, who stated that African Development Bank would provide $150 million, said the loan would specifically be spent on rural development projects. According to her, $50 million from Africa Grow Together Fund would go to electrification projects and $20 million from French Development Agency would be lent to the…

BEING THE TEXT OF THE EASTER BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. UDOM EMMANUEL, GOVERNOR, AKWA IBOM STATE, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, UYO – APRIL 18, 2019 My dear Akwa Ibomites, My wife, Her Excellency, Mrs. Martha Udom Emmanuel, and I wish you a Happy Easter. Easter is a season of sacrifice; of circumscribing one’s interest, desires and needs for causes that are greater than ours; it also symbolizes victory over the forces of hatred, betrayal, anger and vile temperaments. No one epitomises this selfless quality than our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Our Saviour endured excruciating and harrowing pain;  was put through…

Easter reminds us of God’s unflinching love for man. God had, out of his benevolence, sacrificed his only son for the atonement of the sins of man on a day like this. Today is a day that Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price of laying down his life for us, his friends, to be redeemed. Even though we never asked for or deserved it, he did it anyway. Christ endured the sufferings, persecutions and shame for our sake. He died and resurrected on the third day to restore the hope of man. Greater love has no man than this- that…

Despite the signing of New Minimium Wage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, employers with less than 25 workers are excluded from paying the new wage. Mr. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), who briefed State House correspondents after meeting the president on Thursday, said the employers are exempted from paying it. According to him,  “workers of a ship which sails out of the country and other persons who are in other kinds of regulated employment which are accepted by the act” are also excluded from the new wage. Enang said the signing of…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, signed into law the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019. By this act, employers of labour are pay to their workers N30,000 the new minimum wage. The President assented to the Act in Abuja, mandating all employers of labour across the country to pay workers a minimum of N30,000 monthly wage. The National Assembly had submitted the minimum wage bill to the President on March 27. The bill approving N30,000 as the new national minimum wage was passed by both chambers of National Asaembly before they went on break for the 2019 general elections. Earlier…

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, Thursday, found the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen guilty of false declaration of assets and ordered his removal from office. Consequently, the tribunal has banned him from holding public office for the next 10 years for contravening the Code of Conduct for Public Officers . Reading the lead judgment, Danladi Umar, the tribunal chairman, ordered the immediate removal of Onnoghen from office as the CJN, Chairman of the National Judicial Council and the Chairman of the Federal Judicial Service Commission. The tribunal also ordered the forfeiture of the five accounts which defendant…