••• flags-off enrollment of 19,000 pensioners into OHIS scheme Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has reassured workers in the state that funding of the N100 billion infrastructure plan will not have any negative impact on their welfare. The Governor gave the assurance during the flag-off ceremony of Health Insurance Enrollment for 19,000 retirees in the…
The State chairman Parliamentary Staff Association Of Nigeria, Osun State Chapter, Comrade Adekunle Adesina says the ongoing strike would be temporarily discontinued in order to enable Governor Ademola Adeleke present the state appropriation bill otherwise known as money bill for the next fiscal year. Comrade Adekunle Adesina stated this while speaking with the journalists in…
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, signed the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, which was recently passed by the National Assembly. The President signed the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Act at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in the presence of the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass….
Flash flooding in southwestern Somalia has claimed the lives of more than two dozen people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, an official said, as El Nino downpours lash East Africa. Since the beginning of the month, ferocious rainstorms have hit Somalia and its neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia, triggering landslides and submerging villages…
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has explained why no fewer than 14,000 Nigerians living in the country risk deportation. Scholz said it is attributed to the spike in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum, with a great number of them without identification cards and Nigerians who have behaved well in their country to benefit Nigeria….
…says there must be an end to detention An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, granted bail to the detained Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, ordered that he should be released to his lawyers. “There…
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said effective application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is critical in combating financial crimes by enabling real-time surveillance, regulatory compliance, and secure data processing, just as it sought a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaborations to address issue of illicit financial flows in the country. Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the…
Traders at various markets in Lagos State, particularly Balogun Market in the Lagos Island Local Government Area of the state are lamenting the multiple levies they pay to the government, alleging extortion. Speaking on Tuesday, some traders at the Balogun market claimed that they are compelled to pay N50,000 in six months, while others pay…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the restriction of vehicular movement in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo states during governorship elections scheduled to hold on November 11, 2023. Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the restriction would be effective from 12:01am to 6pm on…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said a total of 137,973 polling and collation agents registered to participate in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. In a list of polling and collation agents released by the electoral umpire on Tuesday, INEC said at the close of the deadline for…
