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It has become both a moral and legal truism that every worker is entitled to his/her wages, but the  questions ultimately begging for answers are how much of the wages is a worker entitled to or put differently how much of the workers are entitled to wages or how much more should the workers earn in the face of harsh economic realities especially when juxtaposed with the cost of living in the country and the jumbo pay the politicians cum executive, legislator. judiciary earn, is the existing minimum wage realistic or who or what should determine the minimum wage in Nigeria? Wages according to the Labour Act means remuneration or earnings (however designated or calculated) capable of being expressed in terms of money and fixed by mutual agreement or by law which are payable by virtue of a contract by an employer to a worker for work done or to be done or for services rendered or to be rendered; it can also be defined simply as a sum of money paid to a worker in exchange for...

RUFFLED BUTTERFLIES BY AYOTUNDE MAMUDU BOOK REVIEW The book RUFFLED BUTTERFLIES is a 146 page book, divided into 13 short stories. The author’s style of writing can be described as comical and he also generously employs the use of paronomasias and incorporates metaphors among other figures of speech. Even though every theme attempts to address a particular issue and in some cases a particular personality trait, the reader may even identify him/herself in one of the characters of th e se short stories. The stories presented in this book can be related to every aspect of life. The more one read's the book the more engrossed one gets and the more one understands the theme, style, setting and plot. Among all the stories, I think I personally connected more with the one entitled ELECTRONIC LISTS, especially where he wrote about some glaring realities of our everyday lives as citizens of Nigeria, he portrayed the realities so well that every Nigerian can identify w...

The law week is an annual event organized by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), for lawyers and friends. This particular law week titled the 21 st HON. JUSTICE AZAKI MEMORIAL LECTURES with the Theme THE ROLE OF LAWYERS IN ENGENDERING FREE FAIR CREDIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA, was organized by the Jos Branch chapter and was held between the 30 th November and 5 th December 2018. Encouraging the coming together, socializing and sharing of ideas among members of “Jos Bar”. Usually it commences with the registration process which is in two phases, the first is the payment at the bank where one is expected to print out the receipt or evidence of payment and to submit same to the NBA secretariat. The second phase is at the venue of the event where one is expected to put down his/her name before receiving certain items which includes a tag, a bag and writing materials, which has been the tradition.   The venue for this particular occasion is the Millenium Confere...