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NIGERIAN Labour Congress (NLC) leaders have warned all governors that oppose the introduction of a minimum wage and are seeking a second term in office will lose when they face the electorate in elections next year.

AS many as 154 microfinance banks across the country face the prospect of being shut down by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) because they are struggling to survive due to a host of problems including liquidity and solvency.

FLIGHTS in and out of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos face the prospect of being disrupted over the coming days as workers commence an indefinite strike over the refusal of the government to agree a minimum wage deal.

SENATOR Ademola Adeleke has written to the European Union (EU) and the United Nations informing them that there have been threats on his life as Osun States holds a re-run of last Saturday's gubernatorial election in seven polling stations.

NIGERIA'S Social Democratic Party (SDP) has distanced itself from the coalition that its gubernatorial candidate in Osun State Senator Iyiola Omisore has entered into with the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of today's re-run.

TWO of the defeated aspirants in last Saturday's Osun State gubernatorial elections have declared their support for Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying any attempt to declare anyone else the winner will be undemocratic.

NIGERIA'S defence headquarters has dismissed as untrue a recent story that soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the northeast of the country had to resort to begging for food because they had been abandoned by the military authorities.

NIGERIA and the US have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) involving the provision of a $125,000 grant to promote rock art as part of a major programme to promote tourism in the country.

ISLAMIC body the Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has warned Osun State governor-in waiting Senator Ademola Adeleke to abandon plans to return mission schools to their original owners if he wins saying that the move will be biased in favour of Christians.

AMERICAN political analyst Teneo Intelligence has predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari could lose the 2019 election after his All Progressives Congress (APC) suffered a serious setback in the recent Osun State gubernatorial elections.