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IGR To Determine States’ Payment Of New Minimum Wage – Governors

IGR To Determine States’ Payment Of New Minimum Wage - Governors The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said that the payment of minimum wage consequential adjustments will be determined by each state based on their Internally Generated Revenue(IGR). The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of...

Bitcoin Kidnap Ransom: Police Nab Suspect in $15,000 Transaction

Bitcoin Kidnap Ransom: Police Nab Suspect in $15,000 Transaction ... Suspect Makes useful revelations ... Other suspects traced, tracked ... Sources allege insider connections to kidnap incidents The Nigerian Police Force, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command has tracked down and arrested the main suspect in connection with the...

Akpabio Halts Ongoing Employment at NDDC.

Akpabio Halts Ongoing Employment at NDDC. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has directed the immediate suspension of the ongojng employment processes at the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC). In a letter obtained by Economic Confidential and addressed to the Ag. Managing Director of the...

Okowa denies getting N3.5bn from U.S

Okowa denies getting N3.5bn from U.S Dame Edith Okowa, wife of Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has denied receiving N3.5 billion for her pet project, O’5 Initiative, from the Initiative for Global Development, a U.S based organisation. The governor’s wife made the denial in Asaba on...

Tenure Elongation: FIRS Boss, Fowler Dragged to Court

Tenure Elongation: FIRS Boss, Fowler Dragged to Court …To return all salaries, earnings during 'illegal' stay in office A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the appearance of the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler to appear before it on...

FG Warns Producers, Marketers of Chemical weapons

FG Warns Producers, Marketers of Chemical weapons The Federal Government has cautioned producers and marketers of chemical weapons against allowing it into the hands of non-state actors. Mr Gabriel Aduda, the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs in the Office of the Secretary to the Government...