The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top five stories you should be monitoring today.

1. FG to recruit 10,000 youth from oil-rich N’Delta communities – Boroh

About 10,000 youth from oil-rich Niger Delta communities will be employed by the Federal Government as surveillance and security officers at oil pipelines in the region.

2. Northern youth, Igbo leaders committee meeting ends in deadlock

A committee that had been set up to review the quit notice given to Igbos in the North met on Monday, but nothing came out of the meeting.

3. FG lists 27 industries to enjoy tax holiday

The Federal Government has announced a list of 27 new industries that qualified for tax holiday after the administrative suspension on processing Pioneer Status Incentives (PSI) applications.

4. ASUU lambasts Yahaya Bello over non-payment of salaries

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lambasted the Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, for not paying the salaries of about 65 workers of the Kogi State University, while the state government claimed that it had paid 90 per cent of the university workforce.

5. FG committed to creating a ‘new N’Delta region’ – Usani

Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Usani Uguru Usani, has urged investors and other stakeholders to support the government to initiate infrastructure projects for speedy development of the region to make it more like ‘Dubai’.

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