Today's Headlines: Subsidy Removal: Tinubu Ready To Double Minimum Wage; Tinubu Writes Senate On ECOWAS Plan Against Niger

Bola Ready To Double Minimum Wage

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The special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, has said his principal is looking to “double” the current minimum wage.

Ngelale stated this while in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday night.

He said the federal government knows the removal of petrol subsidy is “hurting” Nigerians.

Currently, the national minimum wage is N30,000, but Ngelale noted that with the removal of the subsidy, states now have enough funds to afford a new national minimum wage.

“It’s absolutely evident at this point and I do not want to preempt President Bola Tinubu.

“And I also don’t want to preempt the work of the minimum wage review committee. But what I will say is this, it is evident that the president would want nothing less than a doubling and I say nothing less.

“This means you’re looking at a basic minimum of a doubling of the current minimum wage,” Ngelale said.

Bola Writes Senate On ECOWAS’ plan Against Niger

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday informed the Senate of the decision of the Economic Committee of West African States (ECOWAS) of which he is chairman to intervene militarily in Niger Republic should the coupists in that country refuse to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.

Tinubu in a letter to the Red Chamber of the National Assembly said “military build-up and deployment of personnel for military intervention,” was on the cards should the coupists remain adamant to the ECOWAS communique.

However, the Northern Senators Forum and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) pleaded with the federal government to soft pedal on the planned military intervention.

NUJ Demands End To Abia Citizen’s Harassment By Security Agencies

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Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abia State council, has enjoined the State government to put a tab on the activities of security agencies in the 17 local government areas of the State so as to curtail molestation, harassment, intimidation and extortion of the residents.

This council also urged the leadership of security agencies in the State to encourage their personnel to discharge their duties professionally.

The demand was contained in a 9-point communique issued by the Abia NUJ after its monthly meeting at its State secretariat in Umuahia.

Northern Senators Warns Tinubu Against Military Intervention In Niger

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Northern Senators in the 10th National Assembly have cautioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu against using military intervention in resolving the crisis in Niger.

Sen. Suleiman Sumaila, the spokesperson for Northern Senators Forum, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

The group of Senators urged the President to adopt political and diplomatic means to restore democratic government in Niger.

According to NSF, military intervention in Niger would affect Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno.

“The emphasis, however, should be on political and diplomatic means to restore democratic government in the Niger Republic.

“We also take exception to the use of military force until other avenues, as mentioned above, are exhausted, as the consequences will be casualties among the innocent citizens who do their daily business. Besides, about seven northern states with a border with the Niger Republic will be negatively affected, namely Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno”.

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