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Minimum Wage: Nigerian Governors Dares NLC, TUC

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2024

The 36 state governors in the country have rejected the N60,000 minimum wage earlier proposed by the Federal Government. The governors said the N60,000 minimum wage was not sustainable. They noted that it would force some states in the country to borrow to pay workers’ salaries if the new

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How Tinubu is diverting funds through secret fuel subsidy – Atiku

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2024

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Bola Tinubu administration of diverting public funds through petrol subsidy, hence the refusal of the government to reveal how much is being spent on subsidy. Atiku said this in a statement on Thursday in reaction to a […]

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Breaking: N5.4t fuel subsidy: Presidency denies Wale Edun’s report

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2024

The Federal Government has denied a report authored by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. This was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. In the statement, Onanuga said the documents from which stories were sourced had not become […]

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Acute Food Insecurity May Hit Nigeria, 17 Other Countries

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2024

Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots”, among them Nigeria, a new United Nations early warning report has revealed. The report released on Wednesday spotlighted the urgent need of assistance to prevent famine in Gaza and the Sudan, and further deterioration in the devastating hunger crises in […]

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30 govs lavished N968bn on refreshments, others in three months- Report

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2024

No fewer than 30 state governments of the federation spent N986.64bn on recurrent expenditures, including refreshments, sitting allowances, travelling, utilities, etc., in the first three months of 2024, The PUNCH reports. The states’ budget implementation reports, which were obtained from Open Nigerian States, a website supported by BudgIT that acts as a repository for

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Minimum wage: FG, Labour shift grounds

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2024

Labour agrees to come down to N100,000, but… [Resolution] Further to the negotiation by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage (NMW) and subsequent withdrawal of Labour from negotiation, the Leadership of the National Assembly intervened on 2nd June, 2024. The Organised Labour declared nationwide strike on Monday, 3rd June, 2024 to drive home its […]