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The Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has increased the state workers’ minimum wage from the N30,000 approved by the federal government to N40,000. Obaseki announcement came on Sunday, as 2012 pensioners protested the non-payment of their gratuities during the 2022 Workers’ Day celebration in the state. He said, “As we all know, the minimum of N30,000 can barely sustain a family, it will be immoral and mindless of us to continue to pretend that we do not know that our workers are suffering. “The government of Edo have now decided to review the minimum for Edo workers from N30,000 to…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Chief Ibe Okwara Osonwa, has commended workers in Abia State on the occasion of the 2022 International Labour day. Osonwa, a frontline House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency described as unbearable the pains and pang of hunger, hyper inflation, mass unemployment and insecurity challenges that Abia workers encounter in their daily lives. He reiterated the need for the government at all levels to prioritize the welfare and needs of the workers stating that when the workers are well taken care of, that it will spur them and…

A frontline governorship aspirant in the 2023 governoship election in Abia State, Mr. Etigwe Uwa (SAN), has hailed Abia workers for their hard-work, commitment and steadfastness, even in the face of lingering unsavoury circumstances. In a special message marking May Day 2022, signed by him and released in Umuahia, Etigwe Uwa enjoined Abia workers to know that he feels their pains and would do the utmost to better their lots, if given an opportunity to lead the state. He stated that it is simply cruel and ungodly to owe workers who have families several months of salaries and insensitive to…

Former Governor of Abia state and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Kalu has called on the Muslim ummah to sustain the teachings of the holy Quran and exemplary life of Prophet Muhammed beyond the holy month of Ramadan. While congratulating the Muslim faithful on the successful completion of Ramadan fasting, Kalu stressed that the acts of forgiveness, togetherness, piety, alms giving and love should be upheld by Nigerians in their daily endeavours. The former Governor, who sued for peaceful co-existence among Nigerians regardless of religious,  ethnic and political differences, stressed that the heterogenous nature of the country should…

A Methodist Church of Nigeria Bishop, co-chair, Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, has picked the governoship nomination form of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for Abia State. Onuoha, who is the founder of Vision Africa picked up his nomination form today. Obinna Don Norman, Abia State Chairman of the party announced this on Friday in a facebook post. Details later.

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu's deftness and expertise in peace, diplomacy and crisis management were in focus last night as the crisis between the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and the Okagwe Community in Ohafia Local Government Area over the siting of the Hope Waddell University in the Community was finally resolved. For about 15 years, the people of Okagwe, a Community in Ohafia LGA have been locked in a major crisis with the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria over some issues surrounding the siting of the proposed Hope Waddell University, owned by the Church, in the community. This crisis has stalled the development…

Barely 24-hours after Governor Nyesom Wike accused Hon. Farah Dagogo, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant in Rivers State of being behind an attack on the party’s secretariat in the state, the politician has been arrested. Dagogo, who represents Degema-Bonny Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives was arrested at the PDP zonal secretariat in Port Harcourt. In a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, Wike had alleged that Hon. Dagogo led suspected cultists to disrupt the screening of National Assembly and State house aspirants in Port Harcourt, but Dagogo has denied the allegation. Dagogo had arrived the…

Deputy Minority Whip of the Senate, Ibrahim Danbaba, has decamped from the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmaker’s decision to join to the APC was conveyed in a letter read at the start of plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday. Mr Danbaba, who represents Sokoto South in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, was nominated by the PDP on July 15, 2022, for the position of Deputy Minority Whip, following the defection of the former Deputy Whip, Sahabi Alhaji Ya’u, representing Zamfara North from the PDP to the…

A frontline House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Ibe Okwara Osonwa has called for meaningful dialogue between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis in the Nigerian University system. Osonwa stated this on Wednesday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, noting that the current strike by ASUU was affecting the youth population negatively. Osonwa, while describing himself as a youth said, "This will forestall Idle students from being easily recruited by terrorists, kidnappers, bandits, cultists and other criminal gangs." Osonwa also advised government to address the spate…