The Organised Labour on Monday said it won’t accept ₦100,000 Starvation Wage as the new minimum wage proposed by some individuals and economists. This was disclosed by Chris Onyeka, Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief show. Onyeka said the workers are insisting on the ₦250,000 they…
By Our Reporter Out of wrong brief or sheer misrepresentation of facts, the Governor of our dear State has been hoodwinked into approving a massive downward review of the salaries of staff of the office of the State Auditor-General and their counterpart in the Local Government. Just when they thought that they were being finally…
…says Nigeria will overcome economic shocks soon A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Akin Ricketts has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to insulate the newly created Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy from politics and the Civil Service, in order to checkmate corrupt tendencies. Akin, a former two-term board chairman of…
There was tension in Calabar, Cross River State capital on Friday night when a girl alighted from a vehicle and went berserk. Eyewitnesses said the girl whose identity is yet to be ascertained was dropped off at about 10/11pm by suspected Yahoo Boy, a term used to describe internet fraudsters and ritualists. A source who…
Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, 7th June 2024, ordered the final forfeiture of every asset of NOK University, Gwasmyen Water Factory, Gwasmyen Event Center and Gwasmyen International Hotel in Kaduna State. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had, through its counsel Ekele Iheanacho filed an order of…
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested One Hundred and Twenty-Seven (127) suspected internet fraudsters in Ondo State. The alleged internet fraudsters were arrested in an early morning sting operation at a “Yahoo Party” held simultaneously at Signature and Abah Clubs on Saturday, 8th June 2024, in Akure, Ondo State….
The Government of Cross River has sealed Ben Damare Clinic and Maternity at Ekori community in Yakurr Local Government Area, having been declared unfit to deliver health services by the state health authority. The development is yet another action of the Governor Bassey Otu-led administration to maintain healthcare quality and exterminate quackery and other untoward…
Tension has been brewery at the popular Ika Ika Oqua Market also known as Marian Market in Calabar after ticket collectors allegedly killed a scavenger known as Iron Condemn. CONVERSEER learned that the incident happened on Wednesday when the ticket collectors hit the scavenger, of Hausa ethnicity, who fell and died. According to Daily Post,…
A mother and teacher, Adrienne Gummo, has slammed the Lancaster CSD School Board in her epic speech while standing before the board. Her daughter was told to define gender on an assignment. She wrote that “gender is what you are when you’re born, male or female” and her teacher told her she was wrong. “Our…
The people of Oginigba Community in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on thursday, 6th June 2024, stormed the State Government House to protest over an alleged forceful takeover of their land by the former Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike According to the people, the land where the HyperCity at Slaughter (Trans-Amadi) is built on, was forcefully taken…
