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The Kano State Government has reverted to N18,000 minimum wage, an official of the government has said.
The Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, confirmed the development in a telephone interview with
The PUNCH on Wednesday in Kano.
“Yes, the state government has stopped the payment of N30,000 minimum wage to its workers with immediate effect,” he said.
Tanko-Yakasai said the reason behind the action was due to the recession occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to him, the state was unable to continue paying N30,000 because what the state was currently getting as a government had reduced.
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1. The Federal Government has published the passport numbers of 100 travelers, who failed to undergo the mandatory COVID-19 test after returning to Nigeria. Their details were published by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Saturday. It said the restrictions started from January 1, 2021 and would last till June 30, 2021.
2. The Chief of Protocol to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Tosin Ogunbodede has lost his life in a fatal road accident. Ogunbodede, a close aide of the governor was said to have died in an accident that occurred on Saturday night along Ilesha highway. The accident also claimed the life of his driver.
The Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Chika Onuegbu, is dead.
Onuegbu was said to have passed on the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness.
Punch reported that the State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Mrs. Beatrice Itubo, confirmed Onuegbu’s death to its correspondent on Saturday.
According to her, “Yes, it is true. Early hours of this morning they informed us and we also sent people and we went to confirm”.
“It is really terrible. I didn’t hear that he was sick. It is just this morning somebody told me that he had a headache and went to the clinic and they were taking care of him, then suddenly early hours of this morning he gave up the ghost”.
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has ruled out the possibility of conducting a local clinical trial on the proposed N400bn vaccines before administering them on Nigerians.
The agency said since the World Health Organisation had approved the vaccines there might not be need to conduct another clinical trial on the vaccines.
It, however, said it would subject vaccines, which the Federal Government may likely spend N400bn to procure, to proper revalidation before administering them on Nigerians.
Rivers TUC mourns death of deputy national president, Onuegbu Rivers TUC mourns death of deputy national president, Onuegbu
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The sudden death of Chika Onuegbu, Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and former Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of TUC has thrown the labour movement, friends and associates as well as residents of Port-Harcourt, capital of oil-rich state into deep mourning.
The National Industrial Relations Officer of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), was reported to have died in Port Harcourt after a brief illness.
Sources said he complained of a headache earlier on the day and was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.