The Organised Labour – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) has suspended the nationwide strike for five days to allow proper negotiation with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-organised-labour-suspends-nationwide-strike-2/

The Federal Government said students of state government institutions will also benefit from the government education loan scheme.


https://blueprint.ng/breaking-students-loan-fg-makes-u-turn-on-beneficiaries-from-state-institutions/

A Federal High Court has ordered the removal of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II from Kofar Kudu Palace.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-court-orders-removal-of-emir-sanusi-from-kano-palace/

Ebonyi state University(EBSU) Abakaliki Monday exonerated the institution and a lecturer, Dr. Enyi from the death of its student, late Favour Ugwuka.

https://blueprint.ng/ebsu-exonerates-institution-lecturer-from-students-death/

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Barcelona sacked coach Xavi Hernandez on Friday after the Catalan giants failed to win a trophy this season.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-barcelona-make-u-turn-sack-xavi/

Group of terrorists, early Tuesday morning, stormed Gusau, the Zamfara state capital and kidnapped the manager of Taj Bank Gusau branch, Mallam Mansur A. Kaura at his resident.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-bandits-kidnap-taj-bank-manager/

Ipswich Town soared back into the Premier League for the first time since 2002 by cruising to victory over relegated Huddersfield at an ecstatic Portman Road.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-ipswich-promoted-to-premier-league/

Tragedy struck in Kano when a popular journalist with Abubakar Rimi Television station (ARTV), Naziru Idris Ya’u, was hit by a stray bullet at the Kano State Government House.

https://blueprint.ng/stray-bullet-hits-journalist-inside-kano-government-house/

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would commission three critical gas infrastructure projects being undertaken by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and partners.

https://blueprint.ng/tinubu-to-commission-3-critical-gas-infrastructure-projects-soon/

No less than eleven persons have been reportedly killed in Inikiri Effium, Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state by suspected warlords.


https://blueprint.ng/10-children-pregnant-woman-killed-in-ebonyi-community/

Nigerian Rapper, singer and songwriter Noel Enejo Onoja, says the stereotyping of certain music forms from independent artistes has made the Nigerian music industry too expensive for young upcoming artistes.

In a telephone interview with Blueprint recently, Onoja better known by his stage name of Noel Empraw said this has caused a lot of young upcoming talented musicians to fall off the industry radar. He also added that such stereotypes have made the industry way too expensive for independent artistes discouraging a lot of them.

He said, “There are a lot of talented guys who are being pushed out of the industry because of the excessive billing system and off course the stereotype for alternative sounds emanating from indie talents, while this is not about genre particularly, the listening industry have been programmed to downplay disruption, we believe this will however change over time because the era of glorification of mediocrity is fast fading.”


Speaking about his thought-provoking album titled ALGORHYTHM, the rapper says the album which has been in the works for a while now has finally made it out for fans to enjoy.

Noel Empraw, who currently has a management partnership with another company Lambada Entertainment and a South African publishing company – Sheer Publishing says the release of the album is the beginning of what he terms Africa’s Biggest Musical Export and calls on fans and friends to support the success of the project.

Speaking about the content of the album, Noel said the album contain songs from personal stories to songs that address anomalies of the African society with tracks like “Woké Africa Woké” including songs on love, happiness and thanksgiving, the album ALGORHYTHM is available on all streaming platform worldwide.


https://blueprint.ng/nigerian-music-industry-too-expensive-for-young-upcoming-artiste-noel-empraw/

The Federal High Court sitting in Kano has issued an interim order stopping the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) from implementing a new increased electricity tariff for Band A consumers in the DisCo’s franchise area.

NERC had recently mandated electricity distribution companies to charge Band A consumers higher tariffs to ensure a stable power supply for those who are able to afford it. However, many Nigerians criticised NERC for migrating most consumers to Band A while still experiencing unstable electricity supply.

However, Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano, on Thursday, granted the interim order in response to an ex-parte motion brought by A.B. Mahmoud, SAN, representing Super Sack Company Limited, BBY Sacks Limited, Mama Sannu Industries Limited, Dala Foods Nigeria Limited, Tofa Textile Limited, and the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria Limited (MAN), all as Applicants.


The ruling restrained NERC and KEDCO from implementing the tariff increase, which was scheduled to take effect this month, pending a hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

Additionally, the order prohibited the defendants from intimidating or threatening to disconnect the Applicants’ electricity supply for non-acceptance of the new tariff.

https://blueprint.ng/breaking-court-bars-nerc-from-increasing-electricity-tariff/

The Federal Ministry of Health has pledged to strengthen the health system in Nigeria.

Representative from the Ministry of Health, Deputy Director/Head, Health System Strengthen Department of Health Planning Research and Statistics, Dr Nwakaego Chukwukaodinake, said the ministry is looking for a way to stop brain drain.

She said Thursday at a stakeholders meeting in Abuja that

statistics of WHO indicates that Nigeria is 6th country exporting health care workers outside the Africa countries.


She added that more resources are needed for health care services delivery in Nigeria.

“We need to increase the number of primary health care centres, and make sure that we improve secondary and tertiary service infrastructure and power supply to the hospitals across the country.

Also speaking, Health Policy Research Group, Prof. Obinna Onwukjewe, said the issue of health worker migration is a topical issue in Nigeria and Africa because we need the health workforce to deliver services and do other things within the health sector.

“If they are migrating, especially the well trained ones or experts, there is a problem with the delivery of health services,” he stated.

Pro. Onwukjewe added that one of the major reasons of universal health coverage is services delivery and if you have health workers and they are leaving, it means we cannot achieve the universal health coverage and the health of the citizens will suffer.

Also speaking, WHO representative and the coordinator, Integrated African Health Observatory, Dr. Serge Bataliack, said the study by many countries and projection by WHO reveals that by 2030, Africa will be having a gap of 6.1 million health workers and we are expecting to have 11.8 million health workers.

https://blueprint.ng/ministry-pledges-to-strengthen-health-system/

Ogun State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on the State Government to prevail on the security agencies to clamp down on the activities of cultists across the State and the need to appoint Commissioner for Youth in the State, with a view to the driving policies and programmes that would aid youth engagements so as to address the menace of cult clashes.

The passage of the resolution followed a motion moved by the Majority Leader, Yusuf Sherif and seconded by the Minority Leader, Lukman Adeleye, shortly after the lawmakers debated on the escalating violence of cult clashes in the State.


Opening debate on the motion leading to the passage of the resolution, the sponsor Hon. Adebisi Oyedele, noted that the House observed with serious concern the disturbing trend of incessant cult killings across the State, especially Abeokuta, which began approximately six weeks ago and that no fewer than 10 individual had lost their lives to cult-related violence within the last 42 days.

He stated further that, the rate at which lives were being lost in the State capital was indeed worrisome, saying incidents included the broad daylight shootings of five individuals at different locations within the State capital.

“Worried about the sporadic shooting at Kuto Garage about five days ago creating civil unrest for dwellers which was traceable to a cult gang trying to hit another target.


“The continuous killings among young people across the State are adversely affecting businesses and tarnishing the reputation of our dear State. Worthy of note is the recent intervention of the State Government, State Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force and the traditional rulers which have resulted into a calm environment in Sagamu axis”, he submitted.

Other lawmakers including Lukmon Atobatele, Adeyanju Adegoke and Adeleye Lukman noted that the activities of cult clash in the State needed to be addressed, especially through advocacy and orientation of the youth.

They remarked that there was need for the residents of the State to contribute to the security of the society through intelligence information to security operatives, adding that there was need for unhindered prosecution of criminals in the guise of cultism to serve as deterrent to others.

In his response, the Speaker decried the celebration of moral decadence in the society, explaining that such had led to the spread of crimes and criminalities amongst youth.

He implored the youth to persevere, imbibe nobility and be productive by engaging in lawful activities that could earn them decent of living.

https://blueprint.ng/ogun-assembly-passes-resolution-on-cult-clashes-insecurity/