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Petrol price has rendered N70, 000 minimum wage useless — NLC tells FG

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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said it would meet with the federal government on how workers could survive the recent hike in the pump price of petrol. According to the labour movement, the current price of petrol has eroded the gains of the yet-to-be implemented N70,000 new national minimum wage. President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a two day workshop on “Minimum Wage Implementation Workshop, Southern Zone, with the theme ‘Strategies for Effective Implementation of the 2024 National Minimum Wage Act, in Lagos,”…

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My native bullet proof vest failed me – Teenage robber

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Sodiq Oyedokun, a teenager suspected to be an armed robber, has lamented how his traditional bullet proof and anti- arrest vest meant to make him disappear from crime scenes failed him. Oyedokun was arrested and paraded alongside 20 other suspected criminals by the Ondo state security outfit codenamed Amotekun in Akure, the state capital. In an interview, the suspect, said that he inherited it from his late father who was a herbalist. According to him, ” my father gave the vest to me. I kept it in our house since…

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FG opens IDP camps as flood submerges 70% of Maiduguri

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The Federal government has opened IDP camps as thousands of Maiduguri inhabitants have been displaced, with the Nigerian Correctional Service recapturing three inmates after a jailbreak, while 80 per cent of animals at the Sanda Kyarimi Park zoo died as Borno State suffered its most devastating flood disaster in 30 years. Following the disaster, President Bola Tinubu, who’s currently abroad, called for the immediate evacuation of residents in communities overtaken by floods. Seventy per cent of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has been submerged by the fast-moving waters, according to…

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American bizman sentenced to 74 years imprisonment for $1.2m visa scam

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An American businessman, Marco Antonio Ramirez, has been convicted and sentenced to 74 years imprisonment by a Lagos State Special Offences Court, in Ikeja, on Tuesday, for defrauding victims of $1.2m, through an EB-5 visa scam and an additional $368,698.24, in fraud. Justice Mojisola Dada, who handed down the sentence, found Ramirez guilty on two separate consolidated charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court ruled that the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. On the first charge, Ramirez was sentenced to…

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Abure lied concerning LP’s N1000 challenge – Aisha Yesufu

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Claims made by the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, that only Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo, were responsible for managing the campaign funds of LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, at the 2023 election, has been debunked by the Obi-Datti fundraising team. Abure on Monday had told journalists in Abuja after a meeting of the National Executive Council that there was no iota of truth in the allegation that he embezzled the party’s campaign donations. The embattled national chairman emphasised that there was no way he could…

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Lotus Bank staff steals N336m …two months after N1.2b loss

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Lotus Bank Limited has been dealt another financial blow, having been defrauded of N336,993,863.35 by one of its employees, barely two months after losing N1,134,491,604.31. In an affidavit sworn by Gbenga Ojerinde, a fraud investigation officer at the bank, and filed by Lagos lawyer Efe Eze-Iyamu, it was revealed that Lotus Bank discovered suspicious Mudarabah profits paid to customer accounts. A comprehensive review from January 2023 to May 2024 uncovered fraudulent activities by Abdulkarim Arome Mohammed, a staff member in the Financial Control Department. Mohammed allegedly exploited his system privileges…

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American actor, Tyrese Gibson arrested over monthly $10K child support

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American actor, Tyrese Gibson has been taken into custody after he failed to pay the monthly $10,000 child support payments a judge ordered him to make to his ex Samantha Lee. Gibson – who shares five-year-old daughter Soraya with Lee – was held in contempt of court Monday morning during a hearing over the matter. Judge Kevin Farmer was upset over Gibson’s refusal to make the monthly $10,000 child support payments the actor was ordered to begin paying in April 2023. Farmer held Gibson in contempt of court Monday. And…

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83-year-old Canadian fashion mogul sentenced to 11 years for sexual assaults

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The founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, Peter Nygard has been sentenced on Monday to 11 years in prison for four counts of sexual assault of women and a girl in Toronto. He faces release in about six and a half years with credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, or sooner if he is granted parole. Nygard, 83, is “a Canadian success story gone very wrong,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said in handing down the sentence. He called him “a sexual predator,” adding that “Mr…

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Attacker of Ugandan athlete, Cheptegei, dies in hospital

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Dickson Ndiema Marangach, the man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei, has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said Tuesday. Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 percent burns and died last week. In the course of the attack, Marangach also incurred 30 percent burns and was being treated in the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the Rift…

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Labour leader Ajaero released as outrage trails arrest

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Joe Ajaero, Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, President, who was arrested has been released late Monday by the Department of State Services, DSS even as the government agency’s action has been greeted by widespread condemnation nationwide. Ajaero was reportedly released at about 11.10p.m yesterday. Ajaero was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Aiport in Abuja, on his way to London to attend the Trade Union Congress, TUC of the United Kingdom conference, which began yesterday. Ajaero arrest came as the secret police laid siege to the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic…

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