BY GODWIN OBI The House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed a bill seeking to establish a new state in the southeastern region known as Orlu State. The bill, which passed its first reading, was sponsored by Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere (Ideato North South, Imo State), along with other co-sponsoring lawmakers. School feedingContinue Reading
Finance Minister Wale Edùn BY GODWIN OBI The Presidency in a swift response has debunked claims circulating on social media that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, has proposed a new minimum wage of N105,000 per month for Nigerian workers. The Special Adviser toContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested four intending pilgrims as they planned to ingest wraps of cocaine ahead of their flight on Wednesday. Narrating how the arrest was made, Director, Media, and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement in Abuja onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Federal Government is planning to suspend the payment of import duties on staple food items, drugs, and other essential items for an initial period of six months as a measure to curb inflation. This was contained in an Executive Order expected to be issued by theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Ports and Harbour to investigate the contracts for the dredging of the Calabar seaport in Cross River State awarded in 2006 and 2014. The committee is to determine why the contracts were abandoned by the contractors and reportContinue Reading
COMPTROLLER KOLA OLADEJI RECEIVING NIGERIAN FLAG The Federal Operations Unit Zone A (FOU A) of the Nigeria Customs Service has confirmed an incident that occurred on Sunday morning, June 2, 2024, at approximately 0300 hours.A joint patrol team comprising FOU A personnel and some soldiers intercepted a boat carrying smuggledContinue Reading
•To reward informants BY GODWIN OBI The federal government has promised that the recently-completed Second Niger Bridge would be heavily guarded to forestall vandalism and destruction of the project. Worried by the reports of vandalism of the bridge which was handed over to the Bola Tinubu administration in December 2023Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu has directed Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to present a template for a new minimum wage. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said this in Abuja on Tuesday after a Federal Government delegation on the new minimum wage met with the President.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI 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 one week. The TUC president Festus Osifo confirmed this in Abuja onContinue Reading
Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’, Kanwan Katsina 111 BY GODWIN OBI The publishers of People’s Forum Online and Magazine has conferred on the Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara mni the award of a very outstanding monarch 2024. The prestigious National Evergreen Merit Awards was presentedContinue Reading