Minimum wage: Organised Labour suspends strike
The organised labour has suspended the ongoing industrial strike acrion with effect from Sunday, September 30, 2018 The National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, disclosed this on Sunday while briefing journalists at the Labour House in Abuja. Wabba said that the organised labour has been assured by the government that the Tripartite Committee of the Minimum Wage...
Crisis mars Kwara PDP guber primary
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary in Kwara state that held Sunday in Ilorin has been disrupted. The gubernatorial primary which started on a good note at the Banquet Hall, opposite Government house, Ilorin after the earlier peaceful accreditation at Kwara Hotel, was put to an abrupt end following a violence that ensued among the delegates. The crisis began when...
Ilorin Emirate: what Emir, IEDPU President told new Professors
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari has called on indigenes of Ilorin Emirate who have just been promoted to professorial level to see it as a challenge and continue to engage in ground-breaking researches for the growth and development of the society. The Emir gave the advice on Satuday at his Palace during a special prayer he organised...
NARAP to combat wastage in farm produce
By Rowland 'Shuwa The Nigeria Association of Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Practitioners (NARAP) has disclosed plans to partner with farmers in the country so as to end the incessant wastage of farm produce in Nigeria. Speaking with this reporter in Ilorin at the weekend, the National President of the association, Elder John Sunday Ahagbue, explained that the association is not happy with...
Adimula pays Tribute to Funke Adedoyin
A Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Kwara State on Women Affairs, Dr. (Mrs) Biola Adimula has described late Princess Funke Adedoyin as an intelligent, bold, couragious and kindhearted federal lawmaker who was filled with lofty ideas. Adimula who is also a Consultant, Senate Committee on Constitutional Review of the Federal Republic of Nigeria described late Adedoyin as...
Lagos APC primary: 36 of 40 lawmakers support Sanwo-Olu
Sanwo-Olu Babajide As preparation for tomorrow’s governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos is reaching the pick, 36 out of the 40 members of the state House of Assembly have thrown their weight behind the governorship ambition of Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Sanwo-Olu is locking horns with the incumbent governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for the governorship ticket of of the...
BREAKING: Federal lawmaker, Funke Adedoyin dies, Gov Ahmed, Ahmad commiserate with family
A member of the House of Representatives representing Irepodun Isin/ Ekiti /Oke Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara State, Honourable Funke Adedoyin is dead. She was appointed as health minister by former president Olusegun Obasanjo during his first term between 1999-2003. Adedoyin died in a hospital in Abuja on Friday, 28 of September, 2018. Omolola Olobayo who is the sister of the deceased and a...
2019: Kwara North demands power shift, holds rally in Ilorin
Ahead of the primaries of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, a Pressure Group, the coalition of Kwara North Group on Friday staged a peaceful rally across the commercial areas of Ilorin metropolis demanding for a power shift to Kwara North senatorial district during the 2019 governorship election. The group which spread across all the local government...
Osun rerun: Saraki Urges PDP supporters to be law abiding
Senate President and the chairman, People’s Democratic Party, PDP Campaign Council on Osun State governorship election, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has called on PDP supporters to be law abiding in their efforts to reclaime their rightful mandate from power grabbres Saraki who described Thursday’s supplementary election in the state as a charade and an embarrassment to Nigeria’s democracy, said the outcome...
APC ticket: I’m not Saraki’s mole, says ex-Ilorin West council boss
A House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency, Mr Abdulhameed Oladipupo Alli, has denied being a mole sponsored to destabilise the party. He dismissed the suspicion that has trailed his joining the race, saying he had long ago declared his intention to run for the Green Chamber's seat. Alli, popularly...
