THE NIGERIAN EYE

The federal government has promised to transmit the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly by January 23rd for passage.The minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Tuesday during a rescheduled meeting with the leadership of the organised labour in Abuja.

The federal government delegation and the leadership of organised labour have been engaging in a series of meeting in a bid to resolve the minimum wage disagreement and avert another nationwide strike.eanwhile, Labour leaders and members of the NLC on Tuesday commenced nationwide protest to effect the implementation of the N30,000 as new minimum wage.

The protest is still ongoing in almost all the states of the federation as at the time of filing this report.

(TVC)

Since my brother and friend, the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi started trending with a supposedly leaked audio, where he was heard crucifying his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, friends and colleagues had sent me different versions, seeking to know if it was his voice. I'm confirming that now. It's his voice.

Oh, they also wanted to know if he actually said those things about the president. Again, he did, clearly not in the context of what has been flying around. What you have been listening to is the doctored version of his encounter with the blackmailers, who had been on his case in over five months, asking for money and threatening to release the tape close to the election period.

So, let's talk about some of the things he said.

In one instance, he said there was poverty in the land in Buhari's three years of leadership and concluded that conversation with the fact that the solution to Nigeria's problems was to kill everyone. Any intellige…

Photos from President Buhari Re-Election Campaign Flag Off in Uyo, December 28, 2018

Shehu Shagari, the first executive president of Nigeria, is dead.
Bello Shagari, his grandson, confirmed that he died at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Friday.

“I regret announcing the death of my grandfather, H.E Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who died right now after brief illness at the National hospital, Abuja,” he tweeted.

Wale Oluwo, Lagos state commissioner for energy and mineral resources (pictured middle), has quit the All Progressive Congress (APC), vowing to work for Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next governorship election.
A source in the party told TheCable that Oluwo has reached out to the camp of Agbaje ahead of the election.
The aggrieved APC member has also quit the cabinet of Akinwumi Ambode, governor of the state.
In his resignation letter, seen by TheCable, Oluwo accused the leadership of the ruling party of being anti-democratic in the process through which Babajide Sanwo-Olu emerged as the flagbearer of the APC in the 2019 governorship election.
Sanwo-Olu, who enjoyed the support of Mandate Movement, a group loyal to Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the party, made history by beating a sitting governor to the ticket of the party.
Oluwo said the governorship primary has diminished the reputation of the APC in the state.
He alleged that a powerful g…

Fifty-nine support groups for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election have endorsed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for President.
The groups explained that they took the decision because “the government we put in place has failed and continues to fail our people and we cannot continue to reinforce failures.”
Speaking at a ceremony in Abuja on Monday night, Yusuf Ardo, the National Coordinator, Grassroots Mobilisers for Buhari, accused the Buhari Administration of failing to appoint youths into his government.
He noted that the nation’s economy, which was rated as the fastest growing economy in Africa, had become comatose under the Buhari government, stressing that the administration had shown that it was clueless.
Ardo said, “Today, our country is faced with legions of challenges, our economy that was the fastest growing in Africa has become comatose under the present government which has shown that it was unprepared and completely clueless. We believe under Atiku, our economy…