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October 9, 2023 Sunday Igboho Regains Freedom in Benin Republic
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Sunday Igboho Regains Freedom in Benin Republic

Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has regained his freedom from the Beninois authorities.

The embattled freedom fighter said on Sunday he was now legally free to leave Cotonou, capital of the Benin Republic, to any country of his choice.

“I am now free to return to Nigeria and visit any country in the world. I have fulfilled all the legal conditions attached to my bail a few years back and I am coming home to Nigeria, my country of origin, any moment from now.

“I can confirm to you that I am now free to come back to Nigeria. There is no legal encumbrance again. Even though I have been living in Cotonou for some time, I can confirm to you categorically that I have now secured the liberty to leave Cotonou for Nigeria,” Sunday Igboho confirmed on Sunday.

He regained freedom after two years of trial by the government of Benin Republic.

Sunday Igboho’s travails began when he declared the Yoruba Nation’s sovereignty in March 2021.

He started a campaign to chase killer herdsmen and kidnappers out of the South-West states and went on to call on Yoruba in Hausa/Fulani or Igbo territories to return home.

He, however, fled Nigeria in July 2021 following a nocturnal invasion of his Ibadan residence by the operatives of the Department of State Services.

The attack led to at least one death, while some of his belongings were vandalised.

The DSS claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump-action guns, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, charms and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.

The judgment was later set aside by the Court of Appeal in August 2022.

He was later arrested at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic while attempting to flee to Germany.

October 6, 2023 Federal Government to Vulnerable Pensioners 25,000 Monthly
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Federal Government to Vulnerable Pensioners 25,000 Monthly

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the payment of N25,000 monthly grants to vulnerable pensioners captured in the expanded National Social Register of the  Conditional Cash Transfer scheme.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, announced on Thursday that Mr. President had directed the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to commence the payment of the grants to beneficiaries from next month.

According to a statement issued by her Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Rasheed Zubair, the minister disclosed this when she met with the leadership of the Nigerian Labor Congress, led by its President, Joe Ajaero, at Labor House, Abuja.

She said, “The President mentioned very clearly that vulnerable pensioners should be immediately captured in the National Social Register and benefit from the Conditional Cash Transfer, as part of the national social safety net expansion.

“This was made clear in his speech on Independence Day where he committed N25,000 for 15 million household for three months”

Edu appealed to the NLC to help fast-track the process of collating data of would-be vulnerable pensioners so that they would start receiving the grant.

the NLC president expressed delight at the initiative, but noted that getting to the root cause of poverty would go a long way in addressing the problem confronting pensioners and workers.

Ajaero said, “Let’s look at not only how to solve this problem, but the cause of it. If we continue to treat the effects of poverty, the problem will persist. Let us look at other social welfare interventions and job creation that will go a long way to support families.”

He thanked the minister for being the first member of the Federal Executive Council under the current administration to visit the labour house.

The President, Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Godwin Abumisi, thanked Tinubu and the minister for finding the retirees worthy of the grant by the Federal Government.

He said pensioners received as low as between N5,000 and N10,000 a month, and that the N25,000 grant would go a long way in supporting many of them.

October 6, 2023 Nnamdi Kanu to Know Fate at Supreme Court on December 15
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Nnamdi Kanu to Know Fate at Supreme Court on December 15

The Supreme Court has fixed December 15 to deliver judgment on the appeal seeking to compel the Federal Government to release the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja had in a judgment delivered on October 13, 2022, ordered Kanu’s release.

In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel, the appellate court also quashed the terrorism charges filed against the IPOB leader by the Federal Government.

However, dissatisfied with the judgment, the Federal Government appealed at the Supreme Court.

At the proceedings on Thursday,  a five-member panel of the apex court headed by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, fixed the matter for judgment after the parties adopted their final briefs.

While adopting his final brief,  Kanu’s lead counsel, Mike Ozehkome (SAN), urged the court to not only order the immediate release of Kanu but to also award a heavy punitive cost against the government.

“We urge My Lords to uphold our cross-appeal and do substantial justice to this matter in favour of the respondent who has been in detention since June 29, 2021, even after the lower court ordered his release. My Lords should also order that he should never be prosecuted again on the same counts.

“They are still holding him unconstitutionally. We pray My Lords to deliver justice and use this case, just like in Ojukwu vs. State, to demonstrate that no man or government should be above the law,” Ozekhome said.

However, FG’s lawyer, Tijani Ghazali (SAN), urged the apex court to set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal which ordered Kanu’s release.

He also prayed for the court to order the resumption of his trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja on terrorism-related charges.

October 3, 2023 Labor Calls of Strike, as Federal Government Agree Wage Award
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Labor Calls of Strike, as Federal Government Agree Wage Award

The Federal Government will require an additional N315bn in wage bill in the next six months for the newly introduced wage award of N35,000 for workers across the Country.

This came as Organized Labor agreed to suspend its proposed nationwide strike for 30 days, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government after a marathon meeting that ended around 11pm on Tuesday.

The resolution followed over five hours of deliberations between the Federal Government and Labor at the Chief of Staff Conference Room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Announcing the outcome of the meeting to State House correspondents, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Simon Lalong, said “The NLC and TUC accept to suspend for 30 days the planned Indefinite Nationwide strike scheduled to begin, Tuesday, the 3rd of October, 2023.”

Lalong said the memorandum shall be filed with the relevant court of competent jurisdiction within one week as consent judgment by the Federal Government.

However, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said the unions would revisit the agreement if the FG failed to fulfil their demands.

According to the agreement, the Federal Government grants a wage award of N35,000 only to all Federal Government workers “beginning from the month of September pending when a new national minimum wage is expected to have been signed into law.”

The agreement further read in part, “A minimum wage committee shall be inaugurated within one month from the date of this agreement.

“Federal Government accepts to vote N100 billion for the provision of high capacity CNG buses for mass transit in Nigeria. Provisions are also being made for initial 55,000 CNG conversion kits to kick start an auto gas conversion program, whilst work is ongoing on state-of-the-art CNG stations nationwide. The rollout aims to commence by November with pilots across 10 campuses nationwide.

“The Federal Government should urge state government through the National Economic Council and Governors Forum to implement wage award for their workers. Similar consideration should also be given to local government and private sector workers.  A joint visitation will be made to the refineries to ascertain their rehabilitation status.”

Meanwhile, the Federal Government had on Sunday said that the provisional wage increase announced by President Bola Tinubu for all low-income workers for six months would cut across all treasury-paid workers.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, revealed this to State House correspondents at the end of a four-hour marathon emergency meeting with the leaders of Organized Labor.

The compromise was reached to avert the proposed indefinite nationwide strike declared by the organized labor.

The meeting came hours after the President in his Independence Day broadcast announced the approval of a N25,000 provisional wage increase for a certain category of federal workers for the next six months.

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