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The Senate and National Council for Women Society, on Monday, recommended the inclusion of domestic helpers in the proposed National Minimum Wage Scheme of N70,000. This call was made during a public hearing on a bill that seeks to domesticate and register domestic workers and employers in Nigeria. Senator Osita Izunaso (APC, Imo West) led the movement, stressing that domestic …

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American technology company Microsoft has revealed that at least 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the CrowdStrike outage. The company’s vice president in charge of enterprise and OS security, David Weston, revealed this in a blogpost on Monday. He added that this number represents less than 1 percent of Windows machines globally. Although the number of devices affected was …

The Court of Appeal, Lagos, on Friday, dismissed the appeal filed by Danish national, Peter Nielsen, who was sentenced to death for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Nielsen was sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court on May 20, 2022, after he was found guilty of murdering his wife Zainab alias Alizee, and their three-year-old daughter, …

Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, challenging the Federal Government’s seizure of one of their properties in Maitama District, Abuja. In his ruling on Monday, Judge Lifu dismissed the lawsuit, citing the statute of limitations, among other reasons. …

Popular Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has asked organisers of the EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests planned to start on August 1 to shelve the idea as it could lead to anarchy. The Kaduna-based cleric made the appeal in a statement on his Facebook page on Sunday. He said although corruption was destroying Nigeria and hampering the country’s development, planned nationwide protests should …

Paul Ibe, media aide to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has denied claims by The Nation newspaper columnist Sam Omatseye that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate was holding a large convoy despite being a private citizen. Omatseye in a video posted on his X account on Sunday, said: “This is the Waziri of Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the …

  News Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, [North America correspondent, BBC] Joe Biden has turned the US election on its head. After weeks of forcefully insisting that he would remain the Democratic presidential nominee, he bowed to pressure and withdrew from the race. Kamala and Biden Here’s what this means for Vice President Kamala Harris, for Democrats overall, and for Donald …

The Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) has announced the readiness of both the national Under-19 teams (boys and girls) to participate in the World Cup qualifiers scheduled from July 31 to August 19. According to Emeka Igwilo, the federation’s CEO, in a statement provided to Completesports.com, the men’s team will begin their quest to secure one of the two available tickets …

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 presidential election, Omoyele Sowore, has released a list of people he claims are provoking Nigerians to embark on a nationwide protest against bad governance scheduled to begin on August 1. Sowore, who was one of the organizers of the protests hashtagged #EndBadGovernance, posted the list on his X …