Written by The Johannesburg executive mayor, council legislature speaker, mayoral committee members and committee chairpersons are due for a salary hike, which was approved in council on Wednesday. The council held an extraordinary meeting to deliberate over one item on the agenda — the determination of the upper limits of salaries, allowances and benefits for the 2024/25 […]
Israel’s 13-month campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 44,000 people. (AP pic) UNITED NATIONS: The US today vetoed a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza, accusing council members of cynically rejecting attempts at reaching a compromise. The 15-member council voted on a resolution put forward by its 10 non-permanent […]
President Bola Tinubu has sacked the newly appointed Vice-chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU), Bernard Odoh. NAU, a federal university in Anambra State, is popularly known as UNIZIK. Mt Tinubu also dissolved the university’s Governing Council led by Greg Mbadiwe. Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to Mr Tinubu on Information and Strategy, announced […]
Read all about it! Newspaper boxes, often broken, littered and sprawling with graffiti along sidewalks across the Big Apple, will soon be yesterday’s news — thanks to a new City Council bill approved Wednesday that aims to cleanup the “public nuisance.” Sidewalk newsracks that are often broken, littered and defaced in graffiti will be yesterday’s […]
One in 10 households could soon be walloped with a massive £3,000 council tax bill after Keir Starmer gave permission for the charge to continue to increase by nearly three times the inflation rate. If the five per cent cap is maintained, the amount paid by an average household could increase by £109 to a […]
CITY HALL — Alderpeople unanimously rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase on Thursday as they sought to reset budget negotiations with the mayor’s administration. Now, Johnson and City Council will have to find some common ground on how to bring in new revenue to close an almost $1 billion budget gap […]
In a rare 50-0 unanimous vote, the Chicago City Council voted Thursday to reject Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase, sending his 2025 budget plan back to the drawing board and dealing an emphatic blow to the proposal. “This is a healthy process,” Johnson said after the vote was taken. “This is […]
CITY HALL — Facing widespread opposition to his proposed $300 million property tax increase, Mayor Brandon Johnson confirmed his administration is “negotiating” with alderpeople who want to see the tax hike significantly decreased or scrapped entirely. Johnson’s budget team met with 22 alderpeople over the weekend to discuss potential alternatives to the full property tax […]
The Medical Council investigated 32 people who were practicing medicine without a licence — with one person reported to gardaí — and helped gardaí with six criminal investigations last year. The council’s annual report also shows more doctors on the council’s register last year than in 2022 — at 29,488 and 27,520 respectively. It also […]
Videos of dumped puppies were reportedly posted by a former municipal councillor. (X pics) PETALING JAYA: The Manjung municipal council (MPM) has filed a police report over allegations that it had “cruelly” disposed of dead stray dogs by dumping them in a pit. The council said a viral video on the issue had led to […]