BARRING any last-minute changes, the President-elect, Mr Bola Tinubu is expected to return to the country on Monday (today) after a 34-day absence from Nigeria. Tinubu had March 21 travelled out of the country, in what his campaign council said was meant for him to rest and plan ahead of his inauguration on May 29. A statement by the recently dissolved All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council in March noted that Tinubu travelled to France to rest and plan his transition programme after an exhaustive campaign and election season. “The president-elect had left the country through the Murtala Muhammed…
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A FIVE-STOREY building under construction has collapsed in Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa area of Lagos State. “The Lagos State Government Sunday said that a four-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA and continued construction behind the scene,” Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Mukaila Sanusi, said in Sunday statement. “The collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of the States Building Control Agency had issued…
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the Federal Government is yet to address most of the issues for the union’s recent strike. ASUU had late last year called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). But months after the development, the union said the government is yet to address most of its demands including the payment…
THE All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will decide the date the fuel subsidy will be removed. Though the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari said the subsidy policy would end by June when the budget for the initiative would lapse, the Chief Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress PCC, Festus Keyamo, on Sunday, noted that the next government would determine the terminal date for the subsidy regime. There has been apprehension over the planned removal of subsidy with marketers and other petroleum stakeholders projecting that the development may push fuel…
ALMOST a dozen commuters travelling along Osogbo/Ikirun road were in the early hours of Friday abducted at Ayepe community by some people suspected to be bandits. The victims were said to have been whisked into the bush by their abductors. News Point Nigeria reports that, the details of how the victims were abducted were not immediately available, but the perpetrators were said to demobilise the vehicle those abducted were travelling in and took them to the bush near the scene of the abduction. A top security source, who pleaded anonymity, as he was not authorised to comment on the incident,…
A YOUTH leader, Comrade Anjorin Tope Victor (aka Omitogun) has congratulated Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke over his recent victory at the Court of Appeal in Abuja which upheld Adeleke’s election as the authentic governor of the state. Omitogun, an Industrial Chemist from Ekiti State University, also commended Governor Adeleke for running a dynamic government in Osun, saying that the people of the state are now enjoying the dividends of democracy. He added that the victory of Adeleke at the appellate court truly reflected the wishes of the Osun people who freely elected the governor for positive change. Omitogun, who…
THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige says the incoming administration of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu should start discussions on a review of the minimum wage currently obtainable in Nigeria immediately after its inauguration in May. The minister, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday monitored by News Point Nigeria, said the next government should come up with a new minimum wage higher than the current N30,000 by May 2024. He also said the outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari approved pay raise for “hardcore civil servants”, effective January 1, 2023, adding that there…