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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that 2024 is a year filled with harrowing hardship and the worst of its kind for Nigerian workers.NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said this at the opening session of the Nigeria Labour Congress 2024 Harmattan School in Abuja, tagged, “Trade Unions and the Quest for a New Social Contract.Charging workers participating in the harmattan school to actively engage in the training, which aims at prepa...

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Ahead of the 2027 general election, Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Achebe said Nigeria is ripe to have a female president.Citing an example of the United Kingdom, which has had three female prime ministers, the monarch expressed confidence that a female president would perform well for the country.The traditional ruler made the call at the public presentation of Senator Chris Anyanwu’s autobiography, Bold Leap, held at the National Universities Com...

The National Association of Telecoms Subscribers will write to the National Assembly over the Federal Government’s renewed push to impose a five per cent excise duty on telecommunications services.The group is set to meet this Wednesday to finalise arrangements for the petition, which specifically seems to halt legislative approval of the controversial tax while the matter remains unresolved in court.The legal battle against the excise duty...

Operators of Point-of-Sale terminals raised their charges on Monday in line with the implementation of the Electronic Money Transfer Levy of N50 by the Federal Inland Revenue Services charged on any electronic inflow of N10,000 and above.Several fintech platforms on Sunday notified their customers that they would start the collection of N50 as an Electronic Money Transfer Levy in compliance with the Federal Government Stamp Duty Act, which would be remitted to Fed...

The Presidency has refuted widespread claims suggesting that the proposed tax reform bills before the National Assembly recommend the dissolution of key federal agencies. Recent debates surrounding the tax reform bills proposed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration have generated significant misinformation, with some critics presenting misleading claims. One prominent allegation is that the bills aim to dissolve key gove...

President Tinubu has arrived in Cape Town, South Africa for the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC).He was received by South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Roland Lamola alongside Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The BNC deliberations with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa will span across themes like political consultations, cons...

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President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations if they undercut the US dollar....

A former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has assured that the programmes and appointments made by Governor Monday Okpebholo will benefit the people of...