Today's Headlines: Why Emefiele Will Go Free – Sowore; Subsidy Removal: FG Targets 2-Pronged Relief For Workers
Why Emefiele Will Go Free–Sowore
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Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore has said the Department of State Service (DSS) will eventually let the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, go free despite their charging him to court for possession of one single barrel shotgun without license.
Sowore, who stated this on his twitter handle, claimed that Emefiele detention had nothing to do with the gravity of his alleged high crimes but that he is being held on behalf of those in power.
The presidential candidate said if Emefiele was held for the alleged crimes he had committed he would implicate a lot of influential persons in the Mohammadu Buhari-led administration as well as the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said that has become the pattern since after the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki, also detained, charged to court and later freed.
Recall that Emefiele was detained for weeks by the DSS over alleged terrorism.
FG Targets 2-Pronged Relief For Workers
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The Federal Government is leaning towards tackling the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy with a twin agenda.
This, according to Vanguard and Empowered wire sources, includes the provision of palliatives to cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy and N200,000 minimum wage put forward by labour.
Vanguard learned that this might set labour and organised private sector on a collision course with the Federal Government, as their processes at arriving at minimum wage, which the government is not following at the moment.
It was also learned that the absence of a Labour Minister to drive the negotiation process might further compound the issue.
It will be recalled that the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, demanded this figure, against the current N30,000 minimum wage, which they described as too meagre to mitigate effects of fuel subsidy removal.
President and Secretary General of TUC, Festus Osifo and Nuhu Toro, respectively, had put forward labour’s demand: “Minimum wage should be increased from the current N30,000 to N200,000 before the end of June 2023, with consequential adjustments on the cost of living allowance, COLA, like feeding, transport, housing, etc.
APGA Gov Candidate Withdraws Petition, INEC Insists Enugu Election Free, Fair
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Achara said it became imperative to withdraw the petition filed on April 11, 2023, to reduce the workload of the tribunal.
The tribunal consequently granted the wish and dismissed the petition accordingly.
Confirming the withdrawal, Mr Nweke Jr., who was a Minister in the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo administration, said he decided to withdraw the petition against Mbah for personal reasons.
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