The National Identity Management Commission has identified over 6,000 Nigeriens registered on its database with the National Identification Number. This was as President Bola Tinubu directed an inter-ministerial committee to ensure comprehensive data for the National Social Register for the Federal Government’s social investment programmes. Impeccable sources in the Presidency told Saturday PUNCH that the…
Osun state, according to census record, is projected to have a population in excess of five (5) million. Out of this number, young people is believed to constitute at least 55 percent, highlighting the increasing needs for opportunities that will most certainly prevails in Osun state. It’s an open fact that formal engagement will be…
A former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has faulted the proposed creation of 31 additional states besides the country’s 36 existing states. PUNCH Online reports that the House of Representatives Constitution Review Committee proposed the creation of 31 new states in the country. The proposal was contained in a letter to the House of Representatives…
Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke on Friday attended the funeral service in honour of Engr Sunday Makinde, the elder brother of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde.
Governor Ademola Adeleke’s interview granted Channels Television is a narration of the true state of things in Osun when he took over the governance of the state and two years after with his widely commended governance performance. Spokesperson to the State Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed made the assertion in response to a press statement by…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested a Deputy Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kogi State, Adam Yusuf, over alleged corruption. In a statement issued on Friday, ICPC spokesperson Demola Bakare said Yusuf, who had been evading authorities, was apprehended at his residence in Gwagwalada, Abuja,…
The Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, in collaboration with Huawei Technologies, has deployed four new Intelligent Transport System sites to monitor and detect speeding and manage traffic flows. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, announced this during a press briefing on Thursday, stating that the new installations would complement the existing Automatic Number Plate Recognition…
The Ministry of Education on Friday clarified that the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, merely proposed the introduction of a 12-year basic education system. The ministry stated that reports of an immediate policy change on the matter were untrue. Several media outlets had suggested that a new policy aimed at scrapping the Junior and Senior…
By Olawale Rasheed The embattled National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is economically ignorant and so cannot understand how local content in project implementation, youth agropreneurship and financial inclusion for local businesses create direct and indirect jobs within the state economy. Bashiru’s warped understanding of job creation is direct employment by the government….
Staff of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company in several Osun State towns on Thursday shut down company offices in protest over the alleged dismissal of their colleagues. The demonstration, which began early in parts of Osogbo, Ede, and Ilesa, led to disruptions in power supply across the state, particularly in the capital, Osogbo. IBEDC offices…
