Photo caption: (L-R) Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige *As Workers Embarrass Sarak, Dogara, Ngige ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The celebration of this year Workers’ day Monday in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja was trailed with confusion and stalemate between […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has abandoned the year’s May Day rally after he was booed by workers demanding his resignation. Embattled Zuma who has been enmeshed in scandal broke between his supporters and opponents, resulting in all speeches being cancelled. It would be recalled that the main labour Federation, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This year’s Workers’ day rally did not hold in Osun South West Nigeria as the State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) shelved the exercise in honour of the first Executive Governor Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke. Adeleke died at age 62, last week Sunday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital allegedly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Comunications, Barrister Adebayo Shiitu has sent a solidarity message to the Oyo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress on this year’s edition of Labour Day, even as he laments that the celebration is being done on an empty stomach by the government workers. The pro-labour politician said the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An inquest into the death of Osun State’s first civilian governor, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, has been announced. A “special statement” by the state government said the move became imperative to put the record straight, following the disruption of the burial arrangements by some “miscreants masquerading as mourners”. The statement alleged that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said that Nigeria, the ninth largest gas producing nation in the world, lost over 850 million dollars to gas flaring in 2015. Mrs Pat Maseli, Deputy Director, Head, Upstream, DPR, gave the statistics at the just concluded 10th Annual Sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas Conference in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As workers in Bayelsa State join their counterparts around the world to celebrate the 2017 International Workers Day, often referred to as May Day, Governor Seriake Dickson has restated his administration’s desire to improve on their welfare. This he says is key in order to encourage them to be more productive and […]
FROM Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A major political violence was on Saturday averted by security operatives at Ezeagu council area of Enugu state, as scores of political thugs alleged to be working for the state Deputy Governor, Mrs, Cecilia Ezeilo, who hails from the locality disrupted an event put together by the ruling […]
