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The National Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Hon. Aminu Muazu Maifata, has said that local governments cannot afford to pay N62,000 as minimum wage. Maifata said this on Channels Television’s Business Morning segment of the Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Thursday. He also suggested that an affordable minimum wage should…
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President Bola Tinubu is set to receive a draft bill on Friday proposing a return to a regional system of government for Nigeria. The bill, written by Akin Fapohunda, a prominent chieftain of the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, seeks to change the current governance model established by Decree 24 of 1999. The proposed legislation titled…
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A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Thursday sentenced a cleric with the Winner Chapel Church in Omuo-Ekiti, Pastor Enoch Ebinyiam, to life imprisonment for raping a minor. The victim, a daughter of one of the worshippers in the convict’s church, was said to have been raped by the pastor in one of…
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A man in Delta State has narrated how he conspired with his nephew to fake the kidnap of the latter, extorting the sum of N5 million from the ‘victim’s’ father as ransom payment. The two boys, in a video posted on Thursday by the Delta State police spokesman, SP Bright Edafe, said one of them…
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The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), Mr Clement Nwankwo, has underscored the significance of 25 years of civilian rule in Nigeria. Nwankwo made this observation in Abuja during a dialogue session on “Exploring Remedies for Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria, reflecting on the tumultuous history of military rule and the…
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