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Bayo Onanuga, the president’s Special Adviser for Information and Strategy announced the development in a statement on Thursday, July 18, 2024. According to him, Tinubu announced the decisions at the meeting held with leaders of the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress in Abuja. ADVERTISEMENT The statement reads in part, "President Bola Tinubu has approved ₦70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers with promise to review the national minimum wage law every three years.

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‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’ stars Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown in the leads roles. The story centres on Trinity Childs (Hall), the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, who attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown), rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen. Shot in a faux-documentary style, the satire takes w look at megachurch culture and the often nebulous perspectives that are cultivated from being both entrenched in it, as well as finding yourself on the outside looking in.

With Monday marking the beginning of October’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month observance, supporters will be donning their pink ribbons as a show of support for ongoing research for a cure. It’s a ritual that repeats itself for any number of causes, such as teal ribbons for ovarian cancer to red ribbons for AIDS awareness. But when did ribbons begin to be used as symbols for various causes? The Library of Congress’s Folklife Center has studied the history of such awareness ribbons in American culture, and found that many citizens assume that the tradition is older than it is.

More than 9,000  trainee doctors across South Korea have tendered their resignations and over 8,000 have walked off the job this week, local authorities said, in the most recent shake-up to the country’s healthcare system. They are protesting a government plan to expand the intake of medical students in a country that has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios for a major economy and relies on 13,000 trainee doctors to help keep its healthcare system running.

From Harry Potter’s first kiss to Justin Bieber’s holiday tune, kissing under the mistletoe is everywhere in pop culture. But this Christmas tradition — that if you’re standing under the leafy plant, it’s time for a smooch — existed long before it ever appeared in movies and pop songs. While historians are uncertain about why kissing under the mistletoe started, there is a general consensus regarding when and where the custom began, and how it became popular during Christmastime.

Is there a better place to celebrate Christmas than Vermont, where the air has a fragrance of pine needles and the ground is (most likely) dusted with snow? For the past 25 years, Woodstock has hosted Wassail Weekend, a pre-Christmas festival that is rooted in 19th century Norse culture and traditions. While the city itself is a sight to see during the holiday season, Wassail Weekend brings a distinctive parade of more than 50 horses and riders adorned in holiday costumes and period dress, as well as wagon and sleigh rides, a wassail feast and tours of the city's most notable historic buildings.

Fluttering banners proclaimed: “Tito belongs to us. We belong to Tito.” More than 100,000 throats cheered his appearance in Pristina’s “Brotherhood and Unity Square” in southern Yugoslavia. But Tito was in anything but a brotherly mood. The country’s unity, he warned, was threatened by “a knife in the back.” “The whole of Yugoslavia is full of bitterness,” he added. “They are striking behind our back unexpectedly.” Latin v. Cyrillic. The target of Tito’s wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia’s six republics.

One of the great mysteries in American literary history is what happened to Nelle Harper Lee after July 11, 1960, when To Kill a Mockingbird was published. While her novel sold millions of copies, Atticus became a household name and Gregory Peck collected an Oscar for his performance in the film adaptation, Lee virtually disappeared. And she never completed another book. Debut author Casey Cep sets off to investigate Lee’s life after Mockingbird in her vivid book Furious Hours, which travels the highways and byways of rural Alabama to tell the story of the Rev.