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A governorship aspirant of the Labour Party for next year’s election in Anambra State, John Nwosu, has rejected the proposed local government election by the state independent electoral commission. Nwosu, in a press release he signed and sent out, described the process as being hasty and purposefully intended to aid the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to capture the grassroots for next year’s election. He said: “The unbelievably contrived and hurried local government election purportedly scheduled for 28th September 2024 is stranger than fiction. “The governor is convinced that he can capture the Anambra State judiciary and use them to…

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Lagos State Chapter, says the N35,000 wage award in the state should not be taken as part of or in lieu of the N70,000 new minimum wage recently passed into law. The State NLC Chairman, Funmi Sessi, who gave this explanation in Lagos on Friday, said the is concerned over a statement from a certain commission that the state was already paying more than N70,000 prescribed minimum wage to its employees. The union called for a new wage structure starting from the approved N70,000 to be worked out to reflect various cadre and salary grade…

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has petitioned the Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Josiah Majebi, over the unlawful detention of the publisher of Democracy News, Chief Femi Olugbemi, at the Kabba Correctional facility in the state. J.U. Usman, counsel to Kogi NUJ, noted in the petition that the President of Upper Area Court Kabba, Edwin Tebu, unlawfully detained Olugbemi over alleged criminal defamation. The petition, titled “Gross Abuse of Office, Reckless Exercise of Discretion and Unlawful Incarceration of Our Client,” read in part: “Our client, as a professional journalist, has observed the ethics of journalism in the discharge…

Evicted Big Brother Naija ‘No Loose Guard’ housemate, Nne of Ndi Nne pair, has tipped Mbadiwe Twins to emerge winners of the reality show this season. She made the prediction during a recent interview with Pulse. “I am rooting for Mbadiwe twins to win this season,” she said. Nne who was sent packing from the house on Sunday along with her aunty, Chinne, by custodians Streeze who picked an “evict only” box, claimed that they were evicted because the custodians considered them as “threat.” She further claimed that Streeze’s decision to evict them could be a revenge for the Ndi…

A fire outbreak destroyed a four-bedroom bungalow in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Thursday. It was gathered that the incident occurred as a result of gas explosion caused by a housemaid. Spokesman of the Kwara State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, in a statement in Ilorin on Thursday, said the incident occurred at about 10:42 am, at No. 6, Phase 1, off Baba-Soja Street, Akerebiata, Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state capital. He said the fire crew responded immediately, racing to the scene to prevent further destruction. “Upon arrival, the firefighters encountered a bungalow with a four-bedroom flat fully…

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi has described the seizure of aircraft in Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet as an international embarrassment. Obi said the development is yet another of many embarrassing incidents exposing the nation’s failed leadership and poor attitude to the rule of law in a democracy. DAILY POST learnt that the seizure followed the Ogun State Government’s failure to honour a $74.5 million award granted to a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited by an independent arbitral tribunal, chaired by the former President of the UK Supreme Court. The seized jets…

President Bola Tinubu has reportedly tipped Abdullahi Ganduje, National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for ambassadorial appointment in “any African country”, DAILY NIGERIAN exclusively reports. DAILY POST recalls that Ganduje took over as the National Chairman of the APC on August 3, 2023, following the resignation of Senator Abdullahi Adamu. According to the report, the President first delegated Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate to break the “bad news” to Ganduje. The report explained that the ambassadorial offer was aimed at saving him from the ongoing corruption trial he is currently facing in Kano. Recall that…

The Minister of Works, David Umahi says it is the will of God for President Bola Tinubu to reset Nigeria for the betterment of the citizens. He stated this in Bauchi on Thursday during a courtesy visit to Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State. Umahi is in Bauchi to sympathise with the governor and the people over the flood disaster that killed seven persons, destroyed houses and washed away roads across the state. The Minister, who acknowledged that the present administration inherited a poor economy, said Tinubu was doing everything possible to change the narratives for the better. He said…

A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said that he didn’t tamper with local government allocations during his eight years as governor. He made this known at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, MSSN, scheduled to commence on October 12, 2024. Shekarau said the organisation had shaped his life spiritually and otherwise. Shekarau added that he never collected kickbacks from contractors as a two-term governor. “When I contested the election, I had less than N100,000 in my account, and my entry into politics was not…

Agbamu onomiguren The chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress,(NLC), Delta state chapter, Hon. Chief Goodluck Ofobruku has said that the labour Congress will shut down all activities across the state and in Nigeria if the federal government fails to listen to their demands by alleviating the suffering the Federal Government policies has brought on Nigerians. The NLC chairman spoke to journalists in Asaba, when platform times reporter, alongside other journalists monitor the level of compliance of workers in the state as directed by the NLC National Executive Council, (NEC) The chairman said that the 2-days warning strike was to protest…