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Teachers in primary and secondary schools in 15 states are yet to enjoy the N30,000 wage increase. This is three years after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the National Minimum Wage Act into law. According to the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), the states are Abia, Bayelsa,…

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it arrested a 35-year-old man, Kamalideen Raji, over the murder of a lottery manager in the Badagry area of the state. Raji was said to have, on August 2, 2022, stabbed the manager twice in…

There was a robbery incident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The robbery occurred between 5.00 am and 6:15am on the long bridge, near Warewa bus stop. A passenger of one of the buses plying the road at the…

Fire on Tuesday gutted Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) injection substation in Idumagbo, Lagos Island. Godwin Idemudia, General Manager, Corporate Communications EKEDC in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos, said electricity supply to customers in Idumagbo and Ajele areas have been affected as…

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has assured of the state’s collaboration to tackle the menace of oil theft which he said poses a threat to the Niger Delta region. Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday, when he received a federal government…

There are strong indications that civil servants in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources may have been compromised to leak privileged and confidential government documents in the case where British court ordered seizure of Nigerian assets worth $9 billion. Exclusive documents obtained by The…

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, says the person who accommodated the gunmen behind the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, has been arrested. On June 5, gunmen attacked the church, and 40 people were confirmed dead after the incident. Earlier on Tuesday, Lucky Irabor,…

The Indigenous People of Biafra has said that it has not replaced the currently detained Nnamdi Kanu as its leader. The Biafra group asked its followers to ignore the reports making the rounds that IPOB has replaced Kanu, describing it as “fabricated media…

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah, has expressed zero tolerance for corps members’ involvement in local politics. Fadah made this disclosure in Gombe State on Tuesday during the batch B stream II orientation camp closing ceremony held…