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Major Nigeria News Today 16th November, 2018

1. NLC condemns threat by governors to sack workers over new minimum wage

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has dismissed the threat by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) that states may have to sack workers if forced to pay N30,000 as minimum wage. The union said the threat is not new and that workers are standing firm on the figure agreed by the tripartite negotiation team as the new national minimum wage.

2. Court re-affirms Tonye Cole as Rivers APC Governorship candidate

The suit filed by Senator Magnus Abe, seeking to be declared the flagbearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC) before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have been turned down.

Dr. Chidi Llyod, the Director-General of Tonye Cole Campaign Organization, on Thursday, made the details of the court ruling available to newsmen in Port Harcourt.

3. Mimiko drops 2019 presidential bid, launches senatorial bid

Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, the presidential candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, and former governor of Ondo State, has shoved his presidential ambition. Following his withdrawal from the presidential race, he would be participating in the senatorial election for Ondo Central Senatorial District of Ondo State.

4. We will go bankrupt if we pay minimum wage – Governors

Lagos and Rivers state are the only states that can afford to pay the N30,000 minimum wage as recommended by the new minimum wage committee. This was stated by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) at an emergency meeting on Wednesday with the governors further explaining that states may go bankrupt with ned minimum wage.

5. My husband has never stolen Nigeria’s money – Titi Atiku

Wife of the Peoples Democratic Party‘s presidential candidate, Mrs. Titi Abubakar has joined to criticize the search of her husband by security agents.

She questioned why her husband was being accused of corruption or being a thief without any substantial evidence against him, noting her husband has never stolen the nation’s money.

6. EFCC impounds over 20 houses

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized properties of former governors, ex-ministers, top military officers and businessmen.

According to Ibrahim Magu, EFCC chairman, not less than 407 mansions were seized by the agency from 2015 to 2018, while adding that the forfeited assets have been handed over to the federal government for use by ministries, departments and agencies

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