Category: Politics

USAID, Coca-Cola partner to improve water sanitation

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 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) have commissioned a project to improve access to safe water and sanitation services for more than 44,800 persons in Abia and Cross River states respectively. The projects are being executed through their Water and Development Alliance (WADA) global partnership. They were implemented over a two-year period by Partners for Development (PfD), working closely with the state rural water agencies and four selected local government areas (LGAs. Under the USAID and Coca-Cola partnership, 40 boreholes have been drilled and…

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Ganduje promises better deal for labour

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Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has again expressed his willingness to pay N30, 600 as new minimum wage to workers in the state.   He said this in Kano during the inauguration of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) executives for the 44 local government areas in the state.   The governor promised to continue working in harmony with labour oragnisations in the state for the benefit of the workers.   On his part, the Chairman, Kano state chapter of NLC, Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibirn, however, advised the state…

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IDPs: Four policemen on trial over sex-for-food scandal

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…as PCVSF expends N10bn on victims’ resettlement   Four policemen indicted for demanding sex before allowing internally displaced persons (IDPs) to have access to food in their camps have been dismissed and currently being tried for the offence.   Disclosing this in Lagos, the Vice Chairman, Presidential Committee on Victims Support Fund (PCVSF), Tijjani Musa Tumsah, who led a team to the newspaper house, said stability was gradually returning to the various camps just as most of the displaced persons have been resettled in their communities.   Although he could…

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Minimum Wage: More headaches for governors

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Just a few weeks after the last nationwide strike, signs of more public disorder are currently hovering as federal and state governments apply tactical delay to forestall the implementation of new minimum wage anytime soon. NFG reports reports   In the last two weeks, developments around clamour for a new minimum wage appear to have finally put paid to an early implementation.   Just while organised labour was still trying to fathom Federal Government’s stance on the report it received from the Tripartite Committee on New Minimum Wage, the governors…

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Nigerian Immigration Service splashes N36bn on debts

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…as private firms suck agency’s revenue Alade Jones The projection by Nigerian Immigration Service to generate N40 billion in the last financial year hit a brick wall as it could only muster about N35.73 billion locally and $27.26 million from its foreign missions. According to the financial details obtained by New Telegraph, the agency, within the period, also incurred expenses in excess of N36 billion, being payments mostly made to service providers. The breakdown also revealed a decrease of about 4.5 per cent compared with the over N50 billion in…

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