Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has slashed the salaries of senior political appointees in the state by 50 per cent with immediate effect.
Makinde made the announcement on Friday at the 2020 International Workers’ Day held at the state secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Agodi, Ibadan.
He, however, said civil...
probe covers disbursements, utilisation of money by beneficiaries
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the total accruals into the Ecological Fund from 2010 to March 2022.
It passed the resolution during plenary in Abuja on Thursday. The session was presided over by the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila.
The investigation...
The Kwara State Government says it will not accommodate any new entrant into the state in keeping with the ban on interstate movement.
The Deputy Governor and Chairman Covid-19 Technical Committee, Mr Kayode Alabi stated this while meeting with the leadership of the Hausa community in the state today in...
Rapper, Abdulrasheed Bello popularly known as JJC Skillz has announced his separation from his wife, actress Funke Akindele.
JJC announced via his official Instagram handle on Thursday morning stating that his marriage with Akindele has had issues for the last two years.
He stated that he had to move out of...
The Lagos State Government has said about 3,000 samples are yet to be tested for COVID-19 in the state.
In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, noted that the development was due to a lack of reagent for molecular testing.
According to him, the Lagos State Government...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, joined African leaders in Dakar, Senegal to launch “the largest financial package ever mobilised in the history of the International Development Association (IDA) - $93billion - geared towards a “robust and resilient economy for Africa.”
Seventy percent of the global fund will be spent on African...
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has described sabotage by some people in the communities affected by armed banditry, kidnappings and Cattle rustling as directly responsible for the inability of security agencies to completely overrun the criminals.
The Governor, while addressing Journalists at Government House, Minna, acknowledged and applauded...
Germany signed an agreement on Friday to begin sending hundreds of Benin bronzes back to the Federal Government, rubber-stamping the biggest effort yet by a European country to return the looted artworks.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister Claudia Roth signed the deal with their Nigerian counterparts in Berlin...
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has signed into law three bills passed by the Niger State House of Assembly.
The bills include the Niger State Tertiary Institutions Law, with an operational date starting from the 8th of May 2019.
The new law increases the retirement age of Academic Staff of the State-owned...
The first phase of Census 2023— the trial House listing and House numbering took off officially in selected local government areas of the country today, Wednesday with President Muhammadu Buhari blessing the exercise, urging officials to justify the confidence of the government by returning accurate, verifiable and dependable data.
To...
