On July 18, 2024, the president, Bola Tinubu and the leadership of organised Labour (constituent organisations) agreed on ₦70,000 as the new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. This agreement followed a series of talks between Labour leaders and the government’s tripartite committee on minimum wage constituted by the President in January 2024. After the...
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FACT CHECK: How True Are These Claims On Local Government Autonomy?
On January 26, 2024, an X user (formerly Twitter) posted a thread with the headline “BREAKING NEWS: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY GRANTS FULL AUTONOMY TO THE 774 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF NIGERIA AS INEC IS NOW TO CONDUCT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS..” The second highlight of the thread is that “ “The National Assembly on Tuesday, granted full financial...
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FACT SHIELD: All To Know About The February 3rd Re-Run & Bye-Election Across Nigeria
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently announced that it will conduct nine bye-elections and 35 re-run elections on February 3, 2024. The elections will be held in Lagos, Ondo, Kebbi, Taraba, Yobe, Benue, Kaduna, Ebonyi and Borno states. Since the announcement, there have been reactions from several stakeholders as to why INEC is moving...
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FACT CHECK: Did Oshiomhole say members of the 9th Senate looted their offices?
An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator, representing Ogun West, Solomon Adeola, who was part of the 9th Assembly, has claimed that Adams Oshiomhole, another APC senator representing Edo North, said in an interview that senators of the 9th Assembly looted their offices at the end of their tenure. Adeola made this known on the floor...