Labour said should the FG and NASS fail to act on its ₦250,000 demand by Tuesday, NLC and TUC organs would meet to decide on the resumption of the nationwide strike relaxed last week. The Organised Labour says it will not accept any ₦62,000 or ₦100,000 “starvation wage” as the minimum wage for Nigerian workers….
Governor Dauda Lawal has requested more interventions from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to complete several unfinished buildings at Zamfara tertiary institutions. The governor made the request during an official visit to the TETFund headquarters last Thursday in Abuja. A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed that the governor requested specific…
…recruits 5,632 BESDA Teachers …distributes Soft Loan to SUBEB Teachers, Instructional Materials Passionate and committed about rescuing the education sector from total collapse, Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has today (Saturday) formally declared State of Emergency on Education. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi…
In responding to the above article laced with insults and name calling, the focus will be to briefly dispassionately address the three key issues raised by the writer even though he digressed largely to attack imaginary enemies. First on budget performance, the government response remains valid as you cannot use performance of the first quarter…
A 13-year-old boy, Wisdom Hashimu, has committed suicide after he was severely brutalised by a soldier and members of the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Ungwan Maigero Community in the Chikun Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Until his death, the teenager was living with his parents, Mr and Mrs Saul Hashim…
In North Korea, two teenage boys from the city of Sariwon recently went on trial in a public court have bagged 15 years and life imprisonment respectively. Their crime? Distribution of South Korean songs and photos. The sentence was harsh: 15 years of hard labour for one of them, life imprisonment for the other. According…
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has felicitated with Olori Iyabo Lamuye, the wife of Nigeria’s first Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Prince Tiamiyu Alade Lamuye (OON), eulogizing her as a woman of great importance considering her impacts in the society. Governor Adeleke acknowledges Olori Lamuye’s kindheartedness and simplicity, saying that…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has urged his daughter, Nike Adeleke, to find a partner and get married. Adeleke gave the urge during a Q&A session on Nike’s Instagram page on Saturday. Nike, who is approaching her 29th birthday, asked her father how he felt about her not being married yet. “I am now 28…
The Kaduna State chapter of the, Peoples Redemption Party, PDP, has declared that the report of the Kaduna State House of Assembly on former Kaduna governor Nasir el-rufai’s financial expenditure has vindicated the opposition party in the state. In its reaction the party’s state publicity Secretary, Albera Catoh in a Press release said, ‘reports of…
Assistant Inspector- General of Police, AIG Yetunde Longe was born in Lagos State where she is from. She attended Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, Lagos (1980) and City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1986) with a Bachelors Degree in Forensic Toxicology. Her journey to the Force was inspired by the…
