$413,000 bribery: Ganduje to get charges through newspapers A Kano State High Court, on Wednesday, ordered the substituted service of bribery charges on the immediate-past governor, Abdullahi Ganduje. Justice Amina Aliyu ordered the prosecution to publish the eight counts against Ganduje and his co-defendants in two daily national newspapers. The judge gave the order following…
Economic hardship: Alhaji Nejimudeen Gidado bemoans Nigerians living standards … Harps on farmlands security for massive food production Disturbed by the worrisome standard of living of many Nigerians occasioned by the current economic hardship, a concerned senior citizen, Alhaji Najimudeen Gidado, the CEO of First Consolidated Ventures Limited, has described the situation as not…
Pensioners’ Lives Matter: A Call for Urgent Reforms. This article was first published on the 20th of November 2023. With the recent happenings in the country and the recent call for increase in salary of civil servants, one would expect that the TUC and NLC leadership would mention the retirees in their request for wage…
Labour Strike: TCN Commences Restoration of National Grid The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has initiated the process of restoring the national grid, beginning with the Shiroro Substation. This comes in the wake of a nationwide blackout that occurred yesterday due to a strike organized by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). In a statement, TCN…
The race to Anarchy and Ethnic Rivalry and Polarization in America has begun. The Executive, the Legislature/ Congress and the Judiciary and 4th Estate of the Realm are supposed to collaborate and work together in peace and unity as designed and envisaged by the Founding Fathers despite the separation of Powers Provision in the Constitution….
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their industrial action over a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff for about one week. The TUC president Festus Osifo said this on Tuesday in Abuja after a joint extraordinary national executive council…
Court Bars GSM Provider from Erecting Mast in Resident Area A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has restrained a GSM service provider from erecting GSM mast near residential buildings at Fiwasaye Community, Osogbo. The Court also declared as illegal, ultra vires, null and void the approval purportedly granted to the GSM company by the…
FEED BACK This article touches the red button, which is the sensitive part of many people. As an outcome of the training on retirement, I wrote the article to reinforce my acquired knowledge of the subject. It was one of the longest-standing articles because of its technicalities. I wrote it, then reviewed it and paraphrased…
The Minimum Wage hullabaloo; ‘Monkey de work Baboon de chop’ The idea of increase in labour wages all over the world is always as a result of hardship due to either inflation or economic down turn. My first Salary at West African Examination Council WAEC, Yaba in the year 1980 as WASC A level holder…
And Trump’s cookie will continue to crumble, by Hassan Gimba This write-up is not new. It was first published on January 18, 2021. Considering his recent court case, I find it relevant to republish it today. Those familiar with novels, especially before the advent of the internet, can remember a famous novel recalled in my headline. The…
