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The Kwara Government on Tuesday assured residents of the state of its commitment to ensuring reforms in the education sector that would continue to yield positive results. The State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Fatimoh Ahmed, gave the assurance while inspecting ongoing work at the proposed Police Secondary School Ballah and the newly constructed Government Day Secondary School, Ballah. Ahmed said due to the fact that infrastructure was key to the development of any society, Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq had approved the comprehensive renovation of eight secondary schools and partial renovation of another 23 schools across the three…
By Harry Awurumibe, State House, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that a database of Nigerians in diaspora should be set up just as Nigeria Diaspora Investment Trust Fund will come on stream in 2020. This much was disclosed today in Abuja by Chairman/Chief Operating Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri- Erewa while briefing State House Correspondents after visiting President Buhari at Presidential Villa Abuja. According to her, “President Buhari has instructed that the welfare of Nigerians anywhere in the world should be of paramount importance hence the Commission has decided to set up a database of…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has felicitated with Nigerians for witnessing the end of the year 2019 and marking the beginning of the New Year, 2020. The Speaker, who noted that 2019 was remarkable in Nigeria’s history has witnessed the general elections peacefully, said he believes 2020 would be better for the citizens. The Speaker in his New Year message through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, said God has been faithful to Nigerians in the outgoing year and called for more unity of purpose among the citizens. “It’s just like yesterday that…
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has congratulated Nigerians for their bravery, resilience, and loyalty to the country despite the economic challenges the country faced in 2019. TUC’s President, Mr Quadri Olaleye, gave kudos to Nigerians on Tuesday in a statement as part of his new year goodwill message. “Evaluating critically the organized labour’s activities in the last year, you will agree with us that it has been a rough path. “There were many industrial issues but we swallowed many bitter pills to save our ailing economy. “Foremost among other issues were minimum wage and its consequential adjustment; unbridled…
By Harry Awurumibe, State House, Abuja President of African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina today (Tuesday) paid a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. During the visit, he gave assurance that his organization will support the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) single currency project. Speaking to State House Correspondents on his mission in the Presidental Villa Abuja, Adesina revealed that he was in the seat of government to thank President Buhari for Nigeria’s role on his recent reappointment as the AfDB President. According to Adesina, “of course I am in the Villa…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday inaugurated newly elected chairmen and vice chairmen for the 16 local government councils in the state, with a charge that they must make themselves accessible to the people. The new council helmsmen were elected during the December 7, local government election in the state and sworn in on Tuesday, a week after the expiration of the tenure of their predecessors, who were elected on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Dr Fayemi who told the new council bosses to prioritise the welfare of Ekiti people above their personal interest, stated…
The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM), a foundation championing regular migration and anti-human trafficking crusade, has appointed Country Coordinators and other officials while a news website for the body will be launched. The association has over 150 seasoned journalists apart from other volunteers spread across the continents. A statement by Mr Ajibola Abayomi, President and Executive Director of JIFORM, on Tuesday stated that the appointments would reposition the organization for its new phase of advocacy. The new appointments are as follows: Mrs Bimbo Oyetunde, General Manager, Radio Nigeria Bronze FM, Benin City, remains Vice President, West Africa; Zambian journalist,…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to use 2020 to stand together with renewed vigour and determination to fight insecurity. Abubakar said this in a new year message issued on Tuesday in Abuja in which he also enjoined Nigerians to use the year for addressing the cause of poverty. This new year will require us all to stay together more than ever before to take on, head front, the common enemy of insecurity that challenge our everyday lives as Nigerians,’’ Abubakar said. Abubakar said that the challenges came with attendant outcome of more children being out of school and…
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has urged Nigerians to be vigilant against the menace of road traffic accidents in the country. Oyeyemi who disclosed in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem on Tuesday in Abuja added that joint effort remained the panacea for dealing with the menace. He commended stakeholders for supporting the Corps in creating safety consciousness among road users and making road safety a collective responsibility. He said that this remained the best guarantee to safeguarding public safety and creating safer road environment in the country. Oyeyemi…
Spanish police probing the deaths of a British pastor and his two children in a pool at a resort on the Costa Del Sol have closed the investigation. Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, drowned on Christmas Eve at the Club La Costa World in Fuengirola. A police spokesman described it as a freak accident and put their deaths down to a lack of swimming ability. But Gabriel Diya’s wife, Olubunmi, wants the investigation to continue and is ‘not satisfied’ their deaths were a ‘simple accident’. She previously said in a statement all three…