Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) said on Monday it is in advanced consultations to constitute and inaugurate a Presidential Campaign Council, with presidential candidate Peter Obi and running mate Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso given a free hand to nominate most of the council’s principal officers.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and civil servants, under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Trade Union Side, yesterday demanded a new minimum wage of N500,000
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By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The war against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta may be facing an unlikely, yet potent, enemy from a massive backlog of unpaid rent for House boats used to combat illegal bunkering activities and related maritime crimes The Nigerian Army and three indigenous houseboat contractors in the Niger […]
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If King Jaja of Opobo were alive today, where would he stand amid Nigeria’s diplomatic pressure, economic uncertainty and deepening social tension—and what would he do? Would he negotiate, confront, build, or turn adversity into leverage? History is most useful when it refuses to remain in the past. More than a century after Jaja’s rise, […]
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Nigeria is once again confronted with a tragedy that should trouble the conscience of every citizen: 37 people arrested over alleged illegal mining have died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna, Niger State. The immediate facts are disturbing. The suspects were arrested during enforcement operations around the […]
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The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
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