Author: Ishaku Yohanna

Minimum Wage: No Nigerian worker should earn less than N100,000 – PGF DG

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman has described the N30,000 minimum wage campaigned by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the present day Nigeria for any family an apology, adding that the minimum wage for any optimally productive Nigerian worker should not be anywhere less than N100,000. The PGF DG, who made this known in a statement titled “True Federalism and Labour Issues,” on Sunday in Abuja, argued that it has become apparent that the leadership of labour unions in Nigeria…

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One feared killed, many journalists injured in accident involving convoy of Gombe governor

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By Ishaku Yohanna A driver was killed while several journalists attached to the convoy of Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, sustained injuries in an accident on Thursday on their way to Gombe from Bauchi State. The accident was said to have happened on Thursday while the governor was returning to Gombe from Bauchi where he had attended the 4th meeting of the North-east Governors’ Forum which held in Bauchi State on Wednesday. The details of the crash are still sketchy as of the time of filing this report but the…

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COVID-19: Nigeria begins AstraZeneca vaccination

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National Hospital doctor receives first jab Buhari, Osinbajo slated for Saturday As Governors, deputies set to be vaccinated March 10 By Ishaku Yohanna History has been made as a medical doctor, Cyprian Nyong, of the National Hospital, Abuja, received the first jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine as Nigeria on Friday commenced its COVID-19 vaccination exercise. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, flagged off the exercise on Friday on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari at the National Hospital,…

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To end insecurity, Nigeria must address widespread poverty – VON DG

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By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has cautioned Nigerians against blame game on the rising issue of insecurity in the country, urging them to instead come to the reality that the security challenges facing the country today is the outcome of Extreme-Poverty instituted 35 years ago by the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)  during the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida military administration which divested interest in the business of the people. Osita Okechukwu who made the position known in a statement recently in Abuja,…

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Rising profile of insecurity in Nigeria no longer acceptable – DG PGF

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…Says APC must work hard to lift Nigerians out of poverty By Godwin Amunde The Director General (DG) of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) – an umbrella body of Nigerian governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has expressed deep concern over the rising profile of insecurity in the country, saying the situation is no longer acceptable to most Nigerians. In a statement he issued in Abuja on Monday titled: ‘Poverty and existential problems of Nigeria’, the PGF DG lamented that with…

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Breaking: Kidnapped Kagara students, staff regain freedom

Ishaku Yohanna

By Ishaku Yohanna The students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara, in Niger State, kidnapped by armed bandits have finally regained freedom, Voice of Liberty has gathered. The Governor of Niger state, Abubakar Bello, will receive the students at the Government House later today, according to our source. A total of 27 students, three staff members, and 12 members of their family were abducted while a Senior Secondary School 3 student was killed after an attack on the Kagara School in the early hours of Wednesday, February 17, 2021…

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APC governors celebrate Aisha Buhari at 50

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By Godwin Amunde The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), a forum of Governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have  joined the first family to celebrate the birthday of the First Lady Aisha Buhari as she marks the golden age of fifty In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, the forum commended the First Lady’s motherly care and selfless support to the processes of managing challenges of…

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We’d mobilise against troublemakers in South-West – Yoruba group vows

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By Godwin Amunde A group, Yoruba Appraisal Forum, YAF, has given stern warning to all those fomenting trouble under the guise of fighting for the freedom of the South-West to desist or risk the wrath of its millions of members across the region. Speaking against the backdrop of the recent violence in Ibarapa town in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State, the YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, in a statement titled, “Yoruba Appraisal Forum will resist vendors of violence in the South-West. Enough is enough!” warned that it would…

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APC ‘Not all-comers affair’ – PGF DG

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By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman, said the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) must not be an all-comers affair, insisting that only those with progressive credentials should be admitted into its fold in the ongoing nationwide membership registration and revalidation exercise. He said the recent attempt to accept Chief Femi Fani-Kayode into the fold of the APC was a clear attempt by some partisans to manipulate the leadership of the ruling party into doing the wrong thing. It would be recalled…

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Don’t admit Fani-Kayode into APC, PGF DG warns Buni

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) – the umbrella body of all governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) – Dr. Salihu Lukman has cautioned the leadership of the APC against admitting former Aviation minister and chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Femi Fani Kayode into the party. Lukman issued the warning in a statement titled “APC: Reminder about Our Values,” released to newsmen in Abuja, on Tuesday. The PGF DG described as disturbing, the circulation of…

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