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Osun student electrocuted with plugged phone

A 100-level student of University of Ilesa, Osun State, Gbolahan Ojolo, has reportedly died of electrocution triggered by lightning strike in his hall of residence in Ilesa, the Nation reports. Ojolo, a student in the Department of Business Administration, was said to be charging his phone and playing a game on it at the same time when thunder struck. Confirming the incident in a statement on Saturday, the Registrar of the University, Funso Ojo, said the incident happened on Friday. Ojo’s statement partly read, “The Management of the University of Ilesa, Osun State, deeply regrets to announce the tragic and untimely death of one of its students, Gbolahan Ojolo, a 100 Level student of the Department of Business Administration. “The unfortunate incident occurred in the evening of Friday, April 18, 2025. Gbolahan was electrocuted while playing a game on his mobile phone, which was being charged in his room at a private hostel located near the Prototype Engineering Development Institute ju...
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June 12: ‘We’ll soon send bill on new ninimum wage to National Assembly’ – Tinubu

 


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he will soon send a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.

Tinubu disclosed this in his democracy day broadcast on Wednesday.

He noted that his government did not crackdown on Organised Labour as the dictatorship government would have done.

“We have negotiated in good fate and open arms with organized labor on a national minimum wage, we will soon send our executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon in the next five years or less,” he said.

Recall that the National Minimum Wage committee submitted its report to the President on Monday.

In the report, the Federal Government proposed N62,000 minimum wage and Organized Labour proposed N250,000.

Also, Governors and Organised Private Sector proposed N57,000 and N62,000

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