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A 12-year-old girl was on Thursday killed in a lone accident at Awowo on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway while five others were injured.
The Presidency on Thursday in Abuja summoned the leadership of the organised labour to an emergency meeting with a view to ending the ongoing nationwide industrial action.
The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Adesina Tiamiyu, on Thursday said the agency receives at least 100,000 calls daily from residents in the State via the emergency response number 767 and 112.
The swearing in took place on Thursday in Makurdi.
Yetunde Akinloye, Director Legal Services, Nigerian Communications Commission, on Thursday said that “call masking’’ had dropped by 40 per cent.
Hajiya Hadiza Kabir, National Women Leader, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, on Thursday, called for immediate removal of the Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, from office.
Emeordi told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Jos that applicants resident in the north-central state were being screened, irrespective of their states of origin.
The Nigeria Fire Service has joined the army in the evacuation of water from a pond in Dura, Du District in Jos, Plateau State, in the search for missing Maj. Gen. Idris Alkali (rtd).
Nasir Olumoh, the state TUC Chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin that there would be more compliance in subsequent days.
The authorities had predicted the flooding, saying Kogi State should be prepared for the worst along with three others
Workers, on Thursday, in Ogun, complied with the warning strike, as directed by the organised labour to protest the slow pace of action by the federal government on the new national minimum wage.
Offices, schools and courts controlled by the Federal Government have shut down businesses in Enugu State in compliance with the nationwide strike directed by the National Labour Congress.
Public and civil servants in the Federal Capital Territory stayed away from their offices, which remained under lock and key.
Alhaji Zakari Bawa, the state Commissioner of Fishery and Livestock, disclosed this during a press briefing in Minna on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some commercial banks in Ibadan metropolis also shut down their activities in compliance with the directive by the labour groups.
The warning strike called by Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress over disagreements on the adoption of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers was effective in some parts of the country.
Students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, and Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, have expressed displeasure over the strike embarked upon on Thursday by the labour movement in the country.
Barring any last minute hitches, the agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria’s political, economic and social structures will further reverberate on October 1, the country’s Independence Day, in Lagos as numerous prominent Yoruba leaders
Government offices have remained open in Kaduna in spite of the nationwide strike began by the Organised Labour over new national minimum wage, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.