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“I Don’t Have Interest In Anambra Governorship Yet” – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said he is too busy serving the nation at the national level to consider a shot at the 2021 Anambra State governorship election. Ngige who spoke to reporters in his country home in Alor, in Idemili Local Government Area, of the state on Sunday said although he had the right...
NYSC To Issue Discharge Certificate To Corps Members On Thursday
The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has disclosed that 2019 Batch “B” Stream 1 corps members will be issued Certificate of National Service (CNS) at the Local Government level from this week Thursday. The statement issued by the scheme’s Director, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, revealed that the passing-out exercise nationwide shall be devoid of the ceremonial...
We’ll Introduce E-Voting In 2021 – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will work towards the full introduction of electronic voting, e-voting in major elections, starting from 2021. INEC said this in its new policy on conducting elections released amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been calls for electronic voting over the years but some concerns, including the fear of cybercrime, hampered the process. An electoral...
Tension In Ngor Okpala As Naval Personnel Allegedly Kill 2 Youths
Tension has enveloped UmuOkereke autonomous community in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State with reports of naval officers allegedly killing two youths at Okpala junction, forcing irate youths of the community to barricade the road in protest. Daily Sun reliably gathered that some youths who were conveying a corpse in an ambulance on Monday were accosted by some naval personnel...
Time For Igbo To Mobilise, Give Our Governors Necessary Support Is Now – Elliot Uko
Founder, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Secretary, Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo to rally round eastern governors to enable them to secure Igboland and resist the marginalisation of the region. ABN TV reports that In a statement he signed, Uko noted that ‘given the obtuse political arrangement in Nigeria today, the deliberate isolation and oppression of...
We’ll Jail Parents Who Enrol Children Into Almajiri System — El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enrol their children in the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and two years imprisonment. ABN TV Reports that Governor El-Rufai stated this when he visited 200 Almajiri children repatriated from Nasarawa State and undergoing rehabilitation and optical screening at Government College, Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna, on Monday,...
FCT Minister Forfeits Salary To Secure Release Of 5 Inmates
The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has forfeited her May salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates unable to pay for their fines at the Kuje Correctional Centre. The minister, who made the donation while felicitating with the inmates as part of activities to celebrate this year’s Sallah, said the donation would...
National Assembly Staff Threaten To Embark On Strike Over Working Conditions
National Assembly staff, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, Tuesday, threatened industrial action, if conditions at their workplace were not improved by the Management and presiding officers of the Senate and House of Representatives. The staff in a Press Statement issued today by its President, Comrade Muhammed Usman, said their demands for a better service,...
Palliatives Donated By FG Rotting Under Rain, Sun
Food items delivered to Kano State government by the Federal Government as palliatives are left rotten at open space and are being beaten by rain and sun, The Guardian has gathered. The Federal government two weeks ago delivered 110 trucks of food items to the state meant to be distributed to vulnerable and less privileged whose sources of survival are being...
Lawmakers Accuse NDDC Of Illegal Spending, Failure To Present Performance Records
Lawmakers of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have accused the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, of engaging in illegal spending of funds belonging to the commission. The lawmakers also accused the NDDC of refusal to submit its performance budget since 2018. A forensic audit is ongoing in the NDDC after the commission squandered N40bn in three months. The NDDC was...
