Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Betta Edu, to release details of how the sum of N535.8 million was expended on feeding school children during the COVID-19 lockdown. Justice Nkeonye Maha, in a judgment, directed the minister and the ministry to furnish […]
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About 24 polytechnics and colleges of education have been converted to universities by the Federal and State Governments in the last three years, a move described by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) as an attempt to ‘kill’ technical education in the country. This came as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) warned […]
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[File] A health worker administered the AstraZeneca COVID-19 to a man during the flag-off of COVID-19 Mass Vaccination by the Nigerian government in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) The House of Representatives has recently mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the embezzlement of the N183.9 billion […]
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• Directs banks to issue old notes There are indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has discreetly redeployed top officials in the apex bank as part of moves to reinvigorate the institution. The Guardian on Monday, reported that the CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso has taken ownership of the ‘housecleaning’ and commenced a broad […]
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Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) More teaching hospitals might shut down due to a shortage of nurses and doctors on account of their massive relocation abroad, the president of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Dele Abdullahi, has indicated. The fear follows reports that the Lagos […]
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The people of Ifon-Osun in Orolu Local Government Area of Osun State have sent a Save-Our-Soul message to the inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, over the worrisome activities of some allegedly gun-wielding miscreants in the community. In their petition, which was also copied to Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, the state police boss, […]
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The Pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political group, Afenifere has stressed the need for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to restructure Nigeria into a true federation where all the component units will coexist harmoniously and live side by side under the rule of law. It called on the Federal Government to harmonise the report of the 2014 […]
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (right) presenting 2024 appropriation bill to joint National Assembly members at the Complex in Abuja …yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA • Earmarks N9.92tr for non-debt recurrent expenditure • N8.25tr for debt service, N8.7tr for capital expenditure • PDP asks N’Assembly to reject ‘deceptive’ proposal • As Akpabio, Abbas, Ibrahim, Adeola, others laud […]
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• Tinubu, others head to Dubai as stakeholders demand results Nigeria and other African countries, especially those with fossil fuel-backed economies trooping to the United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of Parties may need to present a united front that would address the gaps in the global push for net-zero amidst rising geopolitical tension […]
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the payment of wage award to civil servants and pensioners in the state to mitigate the impact of subsidy removal. He said in a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, that the action was in continuation of his avowed commitment to workers’ welfare and a fulfilment of his […]
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