The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its 52 affiliate unions across the country yesterday threatened to hold a two-day nationwide warning strike on Tuesday, September 5 and Wednesday, September 6, to “fight against hardship in the country.” An indefinite shutdown of the nation could follow if the Federal Government fails to
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The naira on Friday appreciated by 2.93 percent to close at N740.38 per dollar at the investors and exporters (I&E) window, The Cable reports.The I&E window is the country’s official exchange rate window.Data from FMDQ Securities Exchange, a platform that oversees foreign exchange (FX) trading in Nigeria, showed that the
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The federal government is targeting no fewer than 15 million households under its updated social safety net project tagged Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT).Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, made this known when she met the World Bank Country Director, Mr. Shubham Chaudhuri, at the multilateral institution’s
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The Nigerian Navy has arrested some men who work for the Tompolo-led Tantita Security Service as crude oil thieves.According to the Commander of Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Beecroft, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, the men were arrested while attacking a local from whom they tried stealing a boat engine.He said: “In a
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Some opposition candidates who participated in the 2023 presidential election have made an appeal to President Bola Tinubu to consider them for appointment in his government of unity.The plea was made when the candidates, under the aegis of Forum of Concerned Presidential Candidates, paid a courtesy visit to the National
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The Chairman of BUA Cement Plc, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has expressed optimism that the completion of the company’s two new factories by the end of the year would trigger a cement price reduction.Rabiu said this during an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the company’s seventh Annual General Meeting
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President Bola Tinubu has proposed the idea of a transition back to democracy in Niger, similar to the nine-month period his country underwent in the late 1990s.The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions on Niger after troops ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in a coup on July
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The Ogun State So-Safe Corps have arrested a 20-year-old boy identified as Ridwan at Oshoku village, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state.Naija News learnt Ridwan confessed that he killed his biological father for money ritual.The Commander of So-Safe Corps in the state, Soji Ganzallo, in a statement released
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