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By Harry Awurumibe, State House, Abuja For the umpteenth time, the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has assured that each state of the federation will pay the Federal Government approved national minimum wage of thirty thousand naira to workers. Speaking to the State House Correspondents after a meeting on Monday with President Muhammadu Buhari at Presidential Villa, Abuja, Fayemi said that every state government will pay the national minimum wage to workers although he believes that some states may not be able to meet up as “all fingers are not equal”. Said…
It was all fanfare in Ojokoro, a densely populated suburb in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, on Monday as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu fulfilled the commitment given to the residents, with the inauguration of 31 network of roads recently completed by the current administration. The contract for the roads, which adds up to a total of 20.216 kilometres in length, was awarded in 2017 in two phases, but construction work was stalled shortly after, leaving the roads in deplorable condition. For about two years, the hapless residents groaned in distress plying the roads. Sanwo-Olu, on assumption of office, reviewed…
The Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Kayode Fayemi, says a review of the revenue sharing formula is still the position of the governors to enable them to implement the new National Minimum Wage without hitches. Fayemi made this position known when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday. He stated that the agitation for the review of the revenue sharing formula by the Governors’ forum dated right from the administration of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. ”We feel that it’s time for the revenue sharing…
Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) said the commission has dismissed one of its staff over academic corruption during the accreditation programme of universities. Rasheed disclosed this in Abuja on Monday during an interactive session with journalists, adding that accreditation exercise must entail due process to ensure quality assurance. ”We are constrained to keep repeating the known fact that the process of accreditation entails a peer review process where only professors are drawn from the Nigerian universities system and not NUC are used as panelists. “The only one NUC staff serves as secretary and administrative backup with…
The Kaduna State Government on Monday urged stakeholders in livestock value chain to be on red alert,following a reported outbreak of a deadly disease, Charcoal Anthrax in neighbouring Niger Republic. A government statement issued by Hajiya Halima Lawal, the State Commissioner for Agriculture in Kaduna,0 urged livestock owners, farmers, butchers, dealers, transporters and veterinarians to be at alert to symptoms of the disease among livestock. Lawal said in the statement she personally signed: “Recent reports from the Republic of Niger as confirmed by the World Organisation for Animal Health have alerted the world to a recent outbreak of Charcoal Anthrax…
Nigerian troops fought back Boko Haram insurgents at Gonar Bukar settlement on Gashua Road on the outskirts of Damaturu, the Yobe capital late on Sunday. The spokesman of the army’s Operation Lafiya Dole, Capt. Njoka Irabor, who confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu, said the jihadists attempted to infiltrate Damaturu metropolis around 5:30 p.m. He said that troops engaged the insurgents “with the timely arrival of air taskforce and that troops “are on top of the situation’’. Irabor, an Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, noted, however, that details of the…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has cautioned police operatives, especially those detailed to man highways during the Yuletide against misconduct. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. The IGP also warned operatives against abuse of rights of Nigerians and called for adherence to laid down rules and standard operating procedures of the force. He said that reported cases of unprofessionalism, including extortion and intimidation of road users, would be investigated and punished. The IGP directed Zonal Assistant Inspector General of Police and Commissioners of Police in charge…
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, recused himself from a suit brought by Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevokutionNow, currently before him. Mohammed made this known to parties at the mention of the motion ex-parte with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1409/19 filed by Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, to challenge his continued detention by the Department of State Service (DSS). News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while Sowore is the applicant, the Director-General of DSS and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) are 1st and 2nd defendants in this matter. The judge told counsel representing parties…
The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB), Igbokoda, has arrested six oil thieves operating in two boats laden with several drums of adulterated diesel on the Ondo coastline. Commodore Danjuma Ndanusa, the Commanding Officer, FOB, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Igbokoda, Ilaji Local Government Area of the state. Ndanjsa said that the suspects and the seizures would be handed over to the appropriate security agency for prosecution. “We arrested six suspected oil bunkerers with two boats laden with several drums of unspecified quantities of adulterated diesel for defying our stern warning that our…
The Nigerian Army has said that no fewer than 31 suspects were arrested and 14 Dane guns recovered in a Crocodile Smile IV operation in Ondo State. Brig. – Gen. Zakari Abubakar, the Commander of 32 Artillery Brigade made this disclosure at the end of the year activities and award ceremony of Crocodile Smile IV on Sunday night in Okitipupa. According to Abubakar, during the exercise, the Army conducted kinetic operation, roadblocks, raids, ambushes, snap checks, illegal and anti-illegal bunkering. “The 32 Artillery Brigade in collaboration with the Navy, Police and other security agencies have made efforts within two months…