Day: June 12, 2024

Senate To Get New Minimum Wage Bill Soon – Tinubu

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has assured the Organised Labour that a an executive bill on the new national minimum wage for workers will soon be sent to the National Assembly for passage. Tinubu made this known on Wednesday in his second Democracy Day speech on June 12, 2024. “In this spirit, we have negotiated in good faith and with open arms with Organised Labour on a new national minimum wage. We shall soon send an executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon as part of…

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Data Breach: Govt slams N400m Fine On Four Banks, Others

Abibat Babalola

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has said more than 1000 financial institutions, schools, insurance companies, and consultancy firms are currently undergoing investigations for various degrees of breaches of citizens’ data. This was as the commission’s National Commissioner, Vincent Olatunji, revealed that four major banks and three other institutions faced sanctions and incurred fines totalling N400m for infractions relating to breaches of citizens’ data. Olatunji revealed this on Tuesday during an interactive session with journalists to mark the first anniversary of the signing into law of the Nigeria Data Protection Commission…

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June 12: Nigerians Are Angry, PDP Tells Tinubu

Abibat Babalola

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of foisting hardship on Nigerians, saying the people are angry over the situation of the country. The party also said the APC has desecrated the democratic principles, legacies and values which the late Chief MKO Abiola laboured and died for. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, charged Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Democracy Day to “speak against the anti-democratic tendencies of the APC which is asphyxiating, inflicting hardship, trampling on…

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‘Let’s Keep Democracy Fire Burning,’ Everything Tinubu Said On June 12

ADEOLA YUSUF

For The Record: 56-paragraph national broadcast on 25th Anniversary of unbroken democracy in Nigeria   1. My fellow Nigerians, let me begin by congratulating all of us for witnessing the celebration of another Democracy Day today, the 12th day of June 2024. This year also marks our nation’s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic governance. 2. On this day, 31 years ago, we entered our rites of passage to becoming a true and enduring democratic society. 3. Going through this passage was hard and dangerous. During the fateful six years that…

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PREPARE: Public Holidays Nigeria Will Declare In June

Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

You need to plan your engagements in Nigeria for the month of June? Here is the list of official off-work days in Africabiggest economy   Nigerians are gearing up for an eventful June as the federal government has announced a public holiday for Democracy Day and is expected to announce the Eid-el-Kabir holidays in the coming days. Democracy Day, marked annually on June 12, celebrates Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999 and commemorates the historical June 12, 1993, elections. Dr. Tunji-Ojo confirmed that Wednesday, June 12, 2024, will be…

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Veteran Nollywood Actor, Sule Suebebe, Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

Veteran actor, Dayo Adewunmi, popularly known as Sule Suebebe, has been feared dead. The Yoruba top actor, who had been bedridden for months reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday at an undisclosed hospital in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The news of his demise was announced by a popular Ibadan-based cleric, Pastor Ademola Amusan, a.k.a. Agbala Gabriel, in whose care the late thespian had been for some months. READ ALSO “Let The Poor Breath,” Protest Rocks Lagos Sexual Harassment: Minister Reports Perm Sec To Head Of Service LASU…

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“Let The Poor Breath,” Protest Rocks Lagos

Ganiyu Amodu

Protesters, on Wednesday morning, stormed the Ikeja Underbridge in Lagos as the country marks the 2024 Democracy Day. There is, however, a heavy security presence, as policemen and officials of the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps are sighted at the venue. The protesters, in their number, chanted solidarity songs as they wielded placards and banners. READ ALSO Sexual Harassment: Minister Reports Perm Sec To Head Of Service LASU Secures NUC Accreditation For 44 Courses Tinubu Reacts As Tolaram Group Acquire Diageo’s 58% Shareholding in Guinness Nigeria Cholera Outbreak Rocks Lagos, Kills…

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Sexual Harassment: Minister Reports Perm Sec To Head Of Service

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has formally lodged a complaint with the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation regarding allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Adamu Ibrahim Lamuwa. In a letter addressed to the HOCSF dated May 27, 2024, and sighted by our correspondent on Tuesday, Tuggar expressed his concern over the serious nature of the allegation levelled against the permanent secretary by Mrs Simisola Ajayi. He emphasised the importance of addressing the matter urgently and thoroughly. The letter was…

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LASU Secures NUC Accreditation For 44 Courses

ADEOLA YUSUF

Lagos State University, LASU, has secured National Universities Commission, NUC, accreditation for 44 courses following an exercise conducted by the body in October and November 2023. The Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, made this announcement in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, in Lagos. Olatunji-Bello said that the result showed that 43 of the 44 courses assessed secured full accreditation, with only one course, ‘Computer Science Education’ getting interim accreditation. “The result translates to about 99 per cent pass mark, which is another unprecedented record in the…

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