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EDUCATION: ZAMFARA NEEDS MORE INTERVENTIONS, GOV. LAWAL TELLS TETFUND

Governor Dauda Lawal has requested more interventions from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to complete several unfinished buildings at Zamfara tertiary institutions. The governor made the request during an official visit to the TETFund headquarters last Thursday in Abuja. A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed …

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Governors of the 36 states of the federation have rejected the N60,000 minimum wage earlier proposed by the Federal Government.

  The Director Media and Public Affairs of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Hajiya Halimah Salihu Ahmed, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had on Monday embarked on indefinite strike action after rejecting the federal government’s …

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President Bola Tinubu has directed the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to come up with the cost Implications on the new minimum wage within two days.

  Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known while briefing State House Correspondents after a meeting the negotiation team had with the president at Aso Rock, on Tuesday. “All parties to the negotiation of the new minimum wage would work together with the organised labour to …

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