Group alerts on ‘suspicious’ amendment of tobacco bill
Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), alerted media executives in Abuja on Thursday, May 4, 2017 on alleged attempts...
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Senate slashes number of TV stations covering plenaries
The Senate, on Thursday, restricted coverage of its proceedings to six television stations, making all the cameramen to boycott coverage of the plenary altogether. The...
Press Freedom: AMDF Laments ill Treatment on Journalists
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), has reiterates its commitment to continue to promote press freedom and freedom of expression in...
5 Men Who Had Sex with Married Woman in her Husband’s bed get 15 years imprisonment
A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced five men to three -year imprisonment each, after they admitted committing adultery. They were, however, given an option...
Pandemonium as Dead Man Grabs Brother’s Hands in Mortuary
There was panic today at the mortuary of Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos, when the hand of the corpse of a man being prepared for...
May Day: Workers humiliate Saraki, Dogara, Labour Minister in Abuja
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Speaker, House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara, Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige and other government functionaries,...
Gombe ready to implement N56, 000 minimum wage
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State, has assured the state civil servants that his government would immediately implement the proposed N56, 000 national minimum wage,...
Buhari to undergo another penis surgery in UK
A little baby, Buhari Dauda, whose step mother cut off his genital few months ago, will be undergoing another phase of surgery in a UK...
Workers Day: N18,000 Minimum Wage is an Insult – Shehu Sani
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone, has termed “as an insult”, the paltry #18,000 minimum wage currently being paid...
Magu: Senate plans fresh showdown with Presidency
The Senate has perfected plans to withhold the confirmation of nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the lawmakers’ strategies for a showdown with...