The Police command has uncovered and shut down another religious home, where children were said to have been maltreated for years in the Sabon Garin Daura area of Katsina state.

 

Briefing reporters at the centre, the Commissioner of Police, SANUSI BUBA, said investigation revealed that the place had been in existence for at least 40 years.

 

The seventy-eight-year-old cleric and owner of the said spiritual rehabilitation centre, BELLO MAIALMAJRI was arrested along with two other men.

 

BUBA said some children who fled the centre had raised the alarm, leading to a police raid.

 

Representatives of the Federal Government and the leadership of organized labour are set to meet again today on the implementation of the new N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustment of salaries for civil servants.

 

The meeting held yesterday had ended in a deadlock, with labour saying they have been patient enough, which means a nationwide strike as threatened, may be looming.

 

Speaking on a monitored programme in Abuja, the Minister ofLabour and Employment, Dr. CHRIS NGIGE said the federal government has fulfilled the agreement on the N30,000 minimum wage but consequential adjustments are supposed to be bargained.

 

He expressed hope that ongoing negotiations will be successful while appealing to members of the union to show some understanding with the financial constraints of the government.

Representatives of the Federal Government and the leadership of organized labour are set to meet again today on the implementation of the new N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustment of salaries for civil servants.

 

The meeting held yesterday had ended in a deadlock, with labour saying they have been patient enough, which means a nationwide strike as threatened, may be looming.

 

Speaking on a monitored programme in Abuja, the Minister ofLabour and Employment, Dr. CHRIS NGIGE said the federal government has fulfilled the agreement on the N30,000 minimum wage but consequential adjustments are supposed to be bargained.

 

He expressed hope that ongoing negotiations will be successful while appealing to members of the union to show some understanding with the financial constraints of the government.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has written letters to state councils of the union to prepare for an indefinite strike if the Federal Government fails to accept its demands on the consequential adjustment of salaries as a result of the new minimum wage by October 16.

 

The first phase of the negotiations had collapsed due to percentage differences between the two parties.

 

But the Federal Government negotiating team and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, which is representing labour unions in the negotiation for the total implementation of the new minimum wage, will meet again tomorrow, October 15.

 

NLC Spokesman, BENSON UPAH told Inspiration fm that the outcome of the meeting will determine the next line of action.

 

Wife of the President, AISHA BUHARI is back in the country, saying at no time had she abandoned her duty.

While speaking to journalists after arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Mrs. BUHARI said she was away to observe rest and medical care.

AISHA BUHARI however said, she was happy to be home.

She also responded to a viral video where she claimed that she no longer has access to the President.

AISHA has not been in the country for nearly three months since the completion of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia between August 9 and 14.

She reportedly jetted out of Saudi Arabia, where she went in company with her husband, to London, where she had remained since.