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Winners in the February 23 National Assembly elections are to get certificates of return (CoR) today by at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 102 senators-elect will get their certificates by 10am and 338 would-be House of Representatives members will be issued theirs by 2pm. Going by the list of candidates, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has 63 senators, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 38 and Youth Progressives Party (YFP) has a seat. Seven seats have been declared inconclusive and will be contested for during the supplementary election slated for March 23. For the lower chamber, the ruling party also has the majority with 211 members. The PDP has 111 members. Other political parties share the remaining 16 seats -APGA (six); African Democratic Congress (ADC), three; Action Alliance (AA) two and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), two. African Democratic Party (ADP), Allied Peoples Mo

247newsglobal has obtained list of  41 persons that reportedly survived the collapse of a three-storey building which trapped many occupants and students at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, Lagos. 247newsglobal reports that the survivors comprise 22 females, 17 males and two persons whose gender was not listed. Two teachers, three adults were clearly stated. We had reported that at least 50 children have been rescued by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), as well as other security agencies. See Full List: Rasheed Lasisat Female Ogunsanwo Olumide Male Adeyemo Kehinde Female Adedoyin Rukayat Female Sanusi Rukayat Female Sulaimon Baraka Female Rasheed Shukurat Female Komolafe Saidat Female Unknown Female Unknown Male Unknown Male Hassan Omotolani Female Abimbola Faroq Male Alabi Quayum Male Afolabi Rodiat Female Olawusi Rokibat Female Alawu Fayibat Female Adedoyin Kehinde Unknown Rasheedat Labat Female

THE Senate Adhoc Committee on a New National Minimum Wage Bill, 2019, has agreed with the House of Representatives, recommending N30,000 as the accepted minimum wage for the Nigerian workers as against N27,000 proposed by the Federal Government. The Committee which is chaired by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Francis Alimikhena, All Progressives Congress, APC, Edo North, met yesterday at Senate Room 431 New Building has concurred with the members of the House of Representatives that had earlier recommended a wage of N30,000 that was later adopted by the lower chamber. A source told Vanguard yesterday that at the meeting of the Committee, the Chairman, Senator Alimikhena asked all the members to make contributions one after the other on the new minimum wage. According to the source, all the Senators who spoke one after the other agreed, for a new minimum wage of N30,000, just as they were said to have taken the bill clause by clause whereby they also agreed with t

No bodies recovered from the wreckage of the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline's plane, the airline’s spokesman said on Wednesday. According to the unnamed spokesman, who was questioned by Rueters, only fragmented remains survived the impact and no bodies were recovered at the crash site. “There were no bodies,” he told Reuters. The black boxes, which record data, were found at the crash site in Bishoftu, Ethiopia and will be analysed in Europe. Germany's federal agency responsible for investigating air accidents will not analyse the black box, after a spokesman for the airline said the country would take care of that. All 157 people on board the plane died in the disaster which has rocked the global aviation industry.