The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, paid another N3.149 billion to 1,013 retirees in its 103rd retirement bond certificate presentation. He said the payment was in line with his administration’s commitment to the welfare of its workforce, both active and post-service. The governor spoke at the 103rd retirement bond certificate presentation to retirees…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, on Friday appealed to former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, to stop blaming the immediate past government of Muhammadu Buhari for the forex challenge and economic hardship plaguing the country. He said all leaders of the APC, including President Bola Tinubu, were complicit in one…
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has defended himself against a series of allegations of misappropriation of party funds raised by the suspended National Treasurer of the party, Mrs Oluchi Oparah. According to Abure, it was not true that the party has collected over N3.5 billion as revenue into its account as…
All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Senator Kabiru Marafa has urged the Zamfara State Government to find and arrest those who killed his comrades. Marafa said that rather than a conflict with other people, his associates were assassinated by Community Protection Guards, or CPG. Alhaji Mogaji Lawali’s death shouldn’t have been in vain, according to Marafa,…
There have been clamour for state police as Nigeria grapples with worsening security challenges such as kidnapping and banditry. Worried by the security challenges in the country, the Federal Government and state governors are considering the creation of state police. This was part of deliberations between President Bola Tinubu and state governors at the Presidential…
The Nigerian Government has discontinued the treasonable felony charges against RevolutionNow agitator, Omoyele Sowore. The termination was sent to the Federal High Court Abuja in a notice of discontinuation, dated February 14. The Federal Government had dragged Sowore to court for “conspiracy to commit treason” and “insulting” former president Muhammadu Buhari. In the suit dated…
The only policy that the university administration developed was to control the construction of religious spaces on campus. Prof. Florence Obi, Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar (Unical), says the university did not ban worship centres within its campus. At a gathering hosted by the Chapel of Redemption on the University of Chicago campus, Obi made…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Pgun State has announced a N5 billon palliatives in all sectors of the state economy. The governor who spoke at a press briefing in Abeokuta said that the palliative was meant to cushion the socio-economic hardship experienced by residents of the state. Abiodun noted that food palliatives for about 300,000 vulnerable households across…
Gov. Godwin Obaseki should take the fallout if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not field a candidate in the next Edo gubernatorial election, according to Mr. Hilary Otsu, Secretary of the PDP’s Edo Chapter. In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, Otsu stated that the party’s National Working…
According to Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, the eagerly expected student loan program might begin in two or three weeks. When a group from the National Association of Nigerian Students, or NANS, visited Gbajabiamila in the State House in Abuja, they were led by NANS President Lucky Emonefe. He urged the Nigerian students…
