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The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has empowered 11,000 Nigerians across the country with various skills and trades under its 2019 National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP). Mr Joseph Ari, ITF Director-General made this known on Monday in Abuja at the graduation and distribution of Start-Up Packs to the beneficiaries. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NISDP began in the last quarter of 2019 nationwide while the training lasted between three and six months, depending on the trade. According to Ari, the NISDP is one of the numerous skills acquisition intervention programmes introduced and implemented by ITF to facilitate…
A member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Board of Trustees, Abubakar Tsav, said the board was not aware of the statement issued by some of the forum members on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Tsav told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Makurdi that the statement was not a “unanimous decision of entire NEF membership.” According to him, members of the board of trustees were not invited to the meeting where the decision was taken. NAN reports that the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led NEF on Sunday said that the Buhari’s administration has failed to tackle insecurity and improve…
The Oyo State Government, on Monday, ordered the immediate suspension of 13 primary school Head Teachers, two Assistant Head Teachers and a classroom Teacher for extortion and various misconducts. The Government issued the directive through the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Adeniran, following an inspection tour of some schools in the Ibadan metropolis. Adeniran maintained that the Government would not tolerate inequity and gross indiscipline among teachers, noting that the Board suspended the erring teachers due to established facts met on the ground at the various schools they supervised. He added that apart from illegal…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday condoled with River Gov. Nyesom Wike over the death of his uncle, Chief Charles Wike. The party gave the condolence in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said that the PDP leadership and family stood in prayers and solidarity with Gov. Wike at the moment of grief knowing how close he was to his departed uncle. He said PDP was deeply pained by the loss knowing the contributions of the deceased towards the upbringing of Gov. Wike, others in the Wike family and the community…
The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has donated equipment for weather data collection to the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Ilorin. According to the University of Ilorin Bulletin issued on Monday, the donation of the equipment, which had been installed, was a fallout of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the University signed with NIMET in 2017. Prof. Mikhail Buhari, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Technology and Innovation (RTI) of the University, explained that the equipment would upgrade the facility of Climate Station in the Department of Geography. Buhari said that the equipments were to help the two organizations to…
The Senate Committee on Works has decried the slow pace of work by the contractor handling the reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Dual Carriageway. Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Adamu Aliero made this known on Monday when he led members of the Committee on oversight to the sites. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the contract was awarded on Dec. 20, 2017, to Julius Berger Plc at a cost of N155.48 billion and has three sections; Zuba-Kaduna, Kaduna-Zaria and Zaria-Kano road. Aliero expressed worry that the work was done at ‘snail’ speed, saying that Nigerians were worried as the road…
Mohammed Adoke, former Attorney General of the Federal (AGF) and Minister of Justice were, on Monday, te-arraigned by the EFCC in the Federal High Court, Abuja, on fresh charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N900 million. The EFCC is prosecuting Adoke and one Aliyu Abubakar on a 7-count charge before Justice Binta Nyako. The former AGF and Abubakar were, however, granted bail by the judge after taking arguments from counsel to the parties. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while Adoke is the 1st defendant and he is being charged on a six-count charge, Abubakar is…
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Monday increased its Lagos-Ogun Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) to two trains daily to reduce the sufferings usually experienced by its commuters. The NRC’s District Manager, Lagos, Mr Jerry Oche, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that it was also to reduce the inadequacy the single train being operated had been creating. NAN reports that the NRC resumed operations on Jan. 23 after about four month’s suspension with one-return-trip train daily. This suspension of its service along the corridor was to facilitate the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. Oche said…
Security officials had torrid time controlling the crowd as they battled to catch a glimpse of the Ace Musician, David Adeleke (Davido) one of the guest musicians at the 2020 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the “30 billion Gang crooner, Davido, had the last performance to the admiration of the fans who but continued to ask for more. Davido performed most of his hit songs, such as Chioma, 30 billion naira, E ma Dami Duro and others. Before Davido came, the rave of the moment, Teniola Apata, popularly known as Teni, also…
Unknown gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers on Friday night, stormed the residence of a former Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, and abducted four persons. The suspected kidnappers also shot and injured an ABU hunter, during their illicit operation. Those kidnapped at the ex-VC’s house, located at Hayin Malam, in Zangon Shanu area of Zaria, Kaduna State, include Maryam Abdullahi Mustapha, a staff of ABU, her two children, and elder sister. Meanwhile, PRNigeria has reliably gathered the two children were rescued when a neighbour fired and killed one of the kidnappers. The elder sister…