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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate payment of December salaries to Federal Government workers. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at the end of the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting, said salaries were already being paid in response to the Presidential directive. She said salaries were being paid, and that people have already started getting alerts. “We are very conscious of the need that people are paid in time for the festive season,” she stated. Mrs. Adeosun said the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA), was $2.258 billion as at December 22, adding that the amount remained unchanged from what it was in November. She said $150 million dividend from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) was also shared at the meeting. While giving the breakdown of what was shared for  November among the three tiers of government, Mrs Adeosun lamented that there was revenue decline of N103.95 billion...

PAN Nigeria yesterday unveiled new and improved Peugeot 508 2016 edition which runs on Euro 5 engine known for its extremely pure efficiency and high standard in emission control. The new Peugeot 508 which was assembled locally at the Kaduna assembling plant as successor to the Peugeot 508 2013 model is built with 100 per cent quality comparable to Peugeot factory in France and in accordance to global quality standard of the Peugeot brand. At the unveiling in Abuja, the managing director, PAN Nigeria, Mr Ibrahim Boyi said that the improved version is fully automated and has the highest standard in efficiency, emission and environmental compliance. Elaborating on some of the new features, Boyi said that the new edition has met stringent environmental emission regulation standards. “In terms of functionality, outlook and the design, the new 508 is a lot better; the front has been redesigned to give it more elegance and better customer experience. It comes with a touch screen control...

THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) rose from an emergency meeting of its Central Working Committee (CWC) on Tuesday night with a threat to liaise with civil society allies to mobilise workers and the Nigerian masses against any form of increase in the prices of petroleum products. Speaking after the meeting held at the Labour House, Abuja, NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said the Nigerian workers, led by the NLC, would not accept any fuel price increase. He pointed out that the position of NLC on the removal of fuel subsidy had not changed, adding that the Nigerian people were not responsible for the current challenges the nation was going through. Wabba said government should rather focus on how to make all the local refineries work, rather than importing refined products from outside the country. He stated further that the congress would not accept any situation where the Nigerian workers would be made to pay for the decay in the system, pointing out that the removal of su...

Hon. Garba Chede representing Bali/Gassol Federal Constituency of Taraba state has hailed Nigeria’s 2016 budget of N6.08trn which was presented to a joint session of National Assembly on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari as a product of deep thinking based on the present realities of the country. Speaking with DAILY POST, the Reps member noted that unlike the previous administration, Buhari consulted widely, thought over enormities and the uncertainties that may affect the financing of the budget before coming up with the figure. “This is the first time APC administration was presenting a budget and this budget, undoubtedly, is a creation of deep thinking based on realities, which was obvious to all Nigerians,” he stressed. He further identified those realities to include lack of job and youth empowerment which, he said, President Buhari has given prominence in the budget, stressing that this was why some Ministries may be given optimal attention than others. “By lookin...

Stuntwoman Olivia Jackson will lose her arm after suffering a motorcycle accident on the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter earlier this year. "My left arm is paralyzed and is going to have to be amputated," the 34-year-old stunt double wrote on a Gofundme page set up for her benefit. Jackson, who had recently worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, lost control of her bike when the vehicle slammed into a heavy camera arm on set in early September. "It's a miracle that she survived," Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich wrote on her Facebook page. "All of us here have been praying every single day for her and her family and sending our thoughts out hoping some of the positive energy reaches her, because she truly needs it." In addition to losing the arm, Jackson writes, "My facial scarring is horrible and I wish I had my old face." After her next round of operations, she hopes to "regain some shoulder function a couple years down...