For extorting N153,000 from LASU student, three policemen nabbed

The Police in Ogun State has arrested three of its mobile officers who reportedly extorted one Hezekiah Oluwaponmile, a student of the Lagos State University (LASU), of the sum of N153,000. The cops, attached to PMF16, were identified as Inspector Sunday John with AP/NO. 310332; Sergeant Jimoh Asimiya with F/NO. 447461 and Sergeant Solomon Adedapo […]

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Nigerian Passport to cost N70,000, labour leaders want the price reduced

Nigerian labour leaders have criticised the Federal Government for the planned increase of the fee to be paid by Nigerians to secure a Nigerian traveling passport. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Nigerian Immigration Service had announced that the new e-passport to be valid for 10 years will cost N70,000 with effect from […]

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Buhari accepts N30,000 per month as new minimum wage

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the proposal that N30,000 per month will now be the new national minimum wage. This topic has been on the table for some time now between the Nigerian govt and the Nigerian workers’ unions. Buhari however gave his approval while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the […]

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It is N24,000 minimum wage, not N30,000 -Nigerian govt says

Nigerian Government has denied entering into agreement with the organised labour to increase the minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000. On Tuesday, the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, was quoted to have said that the Federal Government and the Labour leaders had agreed on N30,000 as the new minimum wage which […]

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