Workers of the Ondo state owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, in Ondo state, have commenced indefinite strike action over unpaid salary arrears of 13 months. The workers who protested at the gate of the institution carried placards with various inscriptions chanted solidarity songs to drive home their demand. The chairman of the Senior Staff Association…
THE Okaa Omee Youth Club of Nigeria is to honour Maureen Chigbo, publisher of Realnews Magazine Online along with Ike Oligbo, a lawyer and politician, and others with its Merit Award on January 8. Among those to also receive the merit award at the ceremony, which will take place at the Okaa Omee Youth Center…
In the long arc of any country’s history, many men and women hold offices and titles in public life. In Nigeria, that is the claim to fame of many such personalities. But if their value addition, individually and collectively, had been significant, our country would have been in better shape than it is today. For…
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim’s first few steps into the ocean of 2023 Politicking has clearly shown that it would not swallow him. He has made a few outings as part of his consultations with stakeholders on his ambition to become the President and of Nigeria in 2023. Feedback from those few initial steps are nothing…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Doyin Salami as Chief Economic Adviser to the President (CEAP). The president’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday. Salami, 59, Chairman of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, is also the Managing Director and Head Markets Practice at KAINOS Edge Consulting…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Sokoto/Zamfara command has called on the general public to always supports the Service in it’s efforts to fight the activities of economic saboteurs. The call was contained in a statement signed by the command Public relations officer, Tahir Balarabe, after an angry mob attack officials and facilities of the Nigeria Customs…
Senator Ali Ndume has tasked the Federal Government to ‘try and name’ Boko Haram terrorists and their sponsors this year. According to him, he was prosecuted by the federal government for allegedly sponsoring Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast. Ndume, representing Borno south senatorial district at the National Assembly; made the calls Tuesday at his…
The Kaduna State Government wishes to inform citizens that the ban on use of motorcycles (popularly known as “Okada”), for commercial or personal purposes, remains in place until further notice. Other containment measures which remain fully in place are listed as follows: i. Ban on wielding dangerous weapons. ii. Restriction on the movement of tricycles…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has assured of its commitment to further deepen ties with its host communities as it begins activities for 2022. NNPC gave the assurance through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC), one of its upstream subsidiaries. In achieving this, NPDC, recently organised a novel community support programme called…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged parents, schools and other stakeholders to inculcate in children societal core values which made the difference between a brute and decent man. Mohammed made the call at the cast of “Death and the King’s Horseman”, produced by the Founder, Terra Kulture, Bolanle Austen-Peters, on Monday in…
