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The government proposed a 100% increase of the minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦60,000, but the unions rejected this as "unsustainable" and demanded a larger increase. [2] According to BBC News, the monthly cost of the average Nigerian family's rice consumption is greater even than the government's proposed raised minimum wage. [3]
In July 2024, Senator Kawu Suleiman Abdurrahman, representing Kano South, introduced a bill in the Nigerian Senate titled "Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Alteration) Creation of Tiga State Bill, 2024 (SB.523)". [3] The bill underwent its First Reading on July 10, 2024. [4]
The Board of Inland Revenue was created in 1958, and the service gained autonomy with the passing of the FIRS (Establishment) Act 13 of 2007. [ 3 ] In 2003, the Federal Government of Nigeria recognized that poor service delivery in the public sector had become an urgent national issue and undertook a series of steps that lead to the entering ...
CNN Business 9 hours ago New real estate rules threatened to upend homebuying for Americans. Here’s what experts say has changed. Last summer, rule changes from the National Association of Realtors, the powerful real estate trade organization, threatened to upend the way Americans buy and sell homes.
Labor unions struggled to get the government to raise the minimum wage for civil servants from a monthly $67 a month. The 2019 pay increase came after workers staged protests. Follow AP’s Africa ...
29 May – Nigeria readopts Nigeria, We Hail Thee, which was the country's national anthem from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing Arise, O Compatriots. [20] 30 May – 2024 Aba killings: Eleven people, including five soldiers, are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba, Abia State. [21]
The End Bad Governance protests, widely known by the hashtags #EndBadGovernance or #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Nigeria [7] that mainly occurred from 1 August to 10 August 2024, triggered by the rising cost of living in the country.
Anti-government protestors clash with police outside the National Congress Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the reform bill's passing. 2024 Armenian protests. Dozens of demonstrators are injured in Yerevan, Armenia, after police fire stun grenades at an anti-government rally outside the National Assembly Building.