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Workers and labour leaders during a protest against a bill on the minimum wage in Ikeja, Lagos…on Wednesday. Photo: Stanley Ogidi
• Wait for public hearing, stop attacking me, bill sponsor tells labour
By our correspondents
The leadership of the National Assembly will, on Tuesday next week, meet labour leaders over a bill which seeks to remove the minimum wage negotiations from the exclusive legislative list.
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing workers who marched to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to protest the bill.
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OGUN State House of Assembly on Tuesday elected a member representing Ogun Waterside State Constituency, Balogun Akeem, as the new Deputy Speaker.
Balogun’s emergence followed the removal of the former deputy speaker, Oludare Kadiri, who represents Ijebu-North II State Constituency, for gross misconduct.
Balogun became the new Deputy Speaker sequel to his nomination by a member representing Remo North State Constituency, Solomon Osho. The motion was seconded by the member, Ijebu-North East constituency, Abayomi Fasuwa; and was unanimously adopted by lawmakers present during plenary.
Earlier, the Clerk and Head of Legislative Service, Mr. Deji Adeyemo presented a report on the vacancy in the office of the Deputy Speaker.
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A former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel has thrown his weight behind the take-off of the College of Broadcasting by the Freelance Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria .
The college located in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, is being floated by FIBAN in affiliation with Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun state.
It will serve as a training institute for broadcasters and prospective broadcasters.
Daniel declared his support for the media college when members of FIBAN, led by their National President, Desmond Nwachuku, paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta.
Daniel, said the college, when fully operational would encourage professionalism and curb mediocrity in the broadcasting industry.
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• Katsina last LG poll held 2014
• Directors of personnel running Kwara LGs
By our correspondents
No fewer than 10 states have not conducted elections into local governments despite the absence of elected officers in the councils.
Investigations on Monday showed that some of the local governments were being administered by caretaker committees constituted by state governors.
This contradicts a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court, which voided laws enacted by state Houses of Assembly that empowered governors to sack elected local government chairmen and councillors and replace them with caretaker committees.
Findings showed that states, which had yet to conduct local government elections despite the expiration of elected officers’ tenures included Ogun, Katsina Anambra, Kwara, Osun, Zamfara and Sokoto.