To Mark the celebration of Easter break, the Federal Government has declared Friday, 29th March and Monday, 1st April 2024 as public holidays to commemorate the 2024 Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively. Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, where he urged Christendom to emulate a Christ-like life that was sacrifice at alter for humanity to witness redemption by Jesus Christ through dying for man.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will mark his 72 birthday on Friday, March 29, 2024, has said he wants a low-key celebration as he morns those who lost their lives within the week. This was made available through a statement by his Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, as the President said the day will be another important milestone in his life as a leader and a statesman.

While the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday, were proposed N794,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers , their counterpart, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) advocating for N497,000 during the South-West zonal public hearing currently ongoing on the National Minimum Wage across the country. Accordingly, the hearing was organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage, and was billed to hold at every geopolitical zone of all the six zones held simultaneously across the country.

The Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage set up by the President Tinubu administration is calling on the stakeholders for participation in proposing and implementing of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, made this known through a statement released on today Friday, saying that the committee has pencilled March 7th for a public hearing. It was learned that the retired Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Aji, will be heading the committee, as inaugurated by Vice President Kashim Shettima. 

The House of Representatives, has today, called on the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to revisit all abandoned projects spread across the country for possible completion and putting same into use by Nigerians. The House during the plenary today lamented that successive administrations in the country have left some number of infrastructural projects unattended to. 

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has today after swearing-in 11 new justices have charged the new justices to see themselves as the representatives of God on earth. Ariwoola made this statement in Abuja today shortly after the swearing-in of the 11 new Supreme Court justices According to the CJN, any judgment given by these justices could only be shoved aside in heaven, and this is the more reason why they need to be careful when discharging their duty.