The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has has today disclosed that contrary to peoples knowledge, said that the N35,000 wage award signed with the Federal Government will continue to run until a new minimum wage is determined by the two parties. The NLC leader stated this today while answering some questions during an interview with pressmen in Abuja.

Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has promised that his administration will work towards achieving the May 29th dateline to deliver the Abuja Rail Mass Transit, ARMT. The Minister made this promise when he was touring the project site in Abuja yesterday for physical assessment. Wike boasted that he was not a pessimist, he revealed that he believes if he goes all out to achieve anything especially that he has disbursed fund, the contractors will have no excuse but to work round the clock.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has this afternoon suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, from office with immediate effect. The suspension was announced in a statement this afternoon by the president special Adviser on Media and publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale. The president revealed that her suspension was in line with his declared commitment to uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in the management of the commonwealth of Nigerians throughout his tenure of office. 

Following complaint over time by Nigerians over poor response by the federal government during emergency situation, the federal government has disclosed it would recruit more workers for the humanitarian Ministry. Although, the ministry revealed the employment would be like an Ad-hoc basis and will also double as part of the Federal Government’s commitment to reduce unemployment in the country.

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, has call on Nigerians to continue to support government policies, programmes and other activities of President BolaTinubu-led administration to ensure better direction for things ahead of year 2024. The Director-General of NOA, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, made the call in a New Year’s Day message in Abuja today Monday 1st January, 2024.

The Nigerian Senate has approved a N28.7trillion as year 2024 Appropriation Bill, as the national budget after jerking the budget from the N27.5trillion presented by President Bola Tinubu with about N1.2 trillion. The passage of the bill, followed the approval of report of the Senate Committee on Appropriation at plenary yesterday Saturday.