No, Federal Government Is Not Giving N50,000 Child Support Nigerian Parents
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- April 15, 2024

Six weeks after his Democracy Day promise that Nigerian workers would get a new minimum wage, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday forwarded a national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly for deliberation and approval. Last week, the federal government and organised labour reached a consensus agreeing on ₦70,000 as the proposed new minimum

He is more widely known as an astute businessman, never involving himself overtly in the murky waters of politics. He is what they call AGIP in Nigerian parlance, meaning Any Government in Power. But all that may have changed last week, when Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote threw his hat into the ring in

Nigeria is at a crossroads again. There is a mobilisation for nationwide protests from August 1-10. The problem may not be with the protests but with the demands and their elasticity. The demands are legion. The protests have a tone of similarity with the ENDSARS in terms of its take-off demand. The “ENDSARS protests went

The political environment is often difficult, if not toxic for women to play in. Often, those courageous women who succeed in fighting their way through by breaking the glass ceiling do not enjoy the freedom to operate like their male counterparts. An alarming noticeable in several parts of the world shows that female parliamentarians face

A day after a bill proposing a six-year tenure for elected chief executives passed the first reading in the House of Representatives, the Senate on Thursday also welcomed a bill seeking to establish the Local Government Independent Electoral Commission for first reading. The Local Government Independent Electoral Commission bill, sponsored by Senator Sani Musa representing

Military oppression was then at a crescendo. For the brutalised media, underground reporting popularised as guerrilla journalism had become the preferred modus operandi for some professional journalists who had not been forced into exile. Those at home bravely challenged incipient fascism. In the process of doing that and unknown to them, their names were being