June 2024

Power outage: Vandals blow up TCN towers again in Maiduguri

Residents of Maiduguri and its environs will experience power outages as vandals again have destroyed the recently rebuilt T193 and T194 towers along the Damaturu-Maiduguri 330kV Single Circuit Transmission Line. The general manager of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN,…

No agreement yet on minimum wage – NLC

Organised Labour has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s claims that an agreement has been reached on new national minimum wages in his nationwide broadcast to make Democracy Day. Tinubu had claimed that a consensus had been reached on the long-debated new minimum wage…

Gov Fintiri pardons 6 inmates, reduces 2 death sentences

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has granted pardon to six inmates, including a female. The governor similarly reduced the death sentences of inmates to life imprisonment. Information about the governor’s action attributes it to the spirit of the nation’s…

Data breach: FG slams N400m fine on four banks, others

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has said more than 1000 financial institutions, schools, insurance companies, and consultancy firms are currently undergoing investigations for various degrees of breaches of citizens’ data. This was as the commission’s National Commissioner, Vincent Olatunji, revealed…