The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has frowned at the N27, 000 minimum wage approved for Nigerian workers by the National Council of State. The union was also not comfortable with the Federal Government’s decision to pay its workers N30,000 as minimum wage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that the National Council of […]
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Serena Williams’s bid to equal Margaret Court’s record 24 Grand Slam titles was brought to a shuddering halt in an incredible way Wednesday by Karolina Pliskova, who will face Naomi Osaka in the Australian Open semi-finals. The American great had beaten world number one Simona Halep in the fourth round but ran out of gas,
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Marvel Studios film “Black Panther” made Oscars history on Tuesday, landing the first best picture nomination for a superhero movie, as crowd-pleasing blockbusters muscled into a contest recently dominated by art-house fare. Other box-office hits among the eight nominees for the movie industry’s top prize included musical remake “A Star is Born” and rock biopic
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U.S. singer Chris Brown, who was arrested in Paris on Monday with two other persons on suspicion of rape, has been released from police custody, the French prosecutor’s office said. The police are still investigating the case, the French prosecutor’s office added. The arrests were first reported by Closer magazine, which said Brown, his bodyguard
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The Bus Conductor Association of Nigeria (BCAN) has promised to mobilise more than six million votes for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari during the February 16 presidential election. Israel Adeshola, the national president of the association, made the promise on Tuesday, January 22, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
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Portuguese football icon Cristiano Ronaldo has accepted a prearranged €18.8 million fine and a suspended 23-month jail term for tax fraud in Spain on Tuesday. The charges relate to his time at former club Real Madrid. Juventus winger Ronaldo arrived at the Madrid court hand in hand with Georgina Rodriguez and dressed in an all-black
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A man reportedly got stuck while having s*x with a married woman in Kenya. According to eyewitnesses, the man who got stuck needed a ritual to “regain freedom” from the married woman who was seen writhing in pains on the bed. A native doctor was however spotted in viral video, performing a ritual for the
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari has shown “utter incompetence, condones evil and corruption”. The elder statesman issued the fresh criticism of the president in an interview with BBC Pidgin. Obasanjo said he believes that Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will perform “two times better” than Buhari. He said
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The federal government says it has released N163 billion to universities from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said this while addressing journalists after a meeting with leaders of Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) on Monday. ASUU has been on strike since November 2018 to press home demands
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R&B singer, Chris Brown, has been arrested in Paris following a rape accusation by a 24-year-old woman. French officials said Brown and two others were currently in custody after a woman filed a rape allegation in northwest Paris after meeting her in a nightclub, Fox 5 news reported. The arrests were first reported by French
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