The Federal Government, on Thursday, urged university lecturers who are yet to enrol in the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to do so, assuring that the peculiarities of tertiary institutions will be accommodated. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, gave this assurance during a...
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has charged the newly inaugurated commissioners into the State Executive Council, to be accountable to the people and not answerable to any godfather, groups. He said this at the inauguration of 19 commissioners and 16 Special Advisers, held on Friday, at the June...
Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has denied reports the six South Governors were summoned by the Presidency over the launch of Western Nigeria Security Network code named Operation Amotekun. There had been insinuations in the social media that the Presidency had, a day to the inauguration, summoned the Governors to defend...
Abdullahi Sule, the gover­nor of Nasarawa State, on Thursday, flagged-off sale of fertilizer for the 2020 dry season farming in the state. At the flag-off ceremony, Gov­ernor Sule, who was represent­ed by his Deputy, Mr Emmanu­el Akabe, said the gesture was first of its kind in the history of Nasarawa...
The National Council For Art and Culture on Friday defended the closure of the Art and Craft Village valued at N9.8 billion saying it had become a den of robbers and illicit drug sale. While describing the ACV as a “rented house for hooligans, robbers, criminals and depot for illegal...
Two Nigerians, one Lebanese arrested over Ilorin case Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has condemned the rising trend of human trafficking in the country, calling it inhuman and unacceptable and warning that anyone caught should face the full weight of the law. “The Governor of Kwara State is horrified by...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has accused the Federal Government of attempting to silence him over his criticism of the regime led by President Muhammadu Buhari using fronts. Sani alleged that the government is using his accuser, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the N336bn budgeted for the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge is intact. He said the money for the contract had been set aside by the Federal Government from the outset of the project so that it would not...
The National Universities Commission has phased out Mass Communication degree in Nigerian universities. The commission said it had unbundled Mass Communication into seven separate degree programmes to meet current demands. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said this would take effect from the 2020 university admission year. Speaking with journalists in...
The Authorities of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti have announced the reinstatement of no fewer than 365 workers of the institution sacked last year. It would be recalled that the management of the university had on December 5, 2019, announced the disengagement of over 600 workers saying their employment...