The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday celebrated with Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi on the occasion of his 49th birthday. The Governor described Ooni as a foremost promoter of culture and heritage. Adeleke made this known in his congratulatory message to the monarch. The congratulatory message, which was contained in a…
••• Distributes 23,900 bags of rice, to give192,000 noodles to school pupils Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, has paid all outstanding salary arrears of local government and primary school teachers as well as pensioners owed by the previous administration. Information and Orientation commissioner, Mrs Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, said this in Akure, the state capital during…
Chief Whip of Senate, Senator Ali Ndume on Tuesday walked out of the plenary, after President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio ruled him out of order. Ndume had raised a point of order citing Order 54 of Senate rule, saying that it was the responsibility of the Chief Whip to remind and guide Senate on procedure…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command on Monday paraded a private school teacher identified as John and five others for allegedly tampering with electricity meters in a bid to use energy without paying. Other suspects paraded include Jaye Abayomi, Abidemi Enoch, Jackson Imukodro, Adeleke Fatimah and Azeez Mutiu. Parading the suspects…
The row between the National Board for Technical Education and the National Universities Commission over the proposed top-up degree scheme for HND holders deepened on Monday. The NBTE, in a statement on Monday by its spokesman, Fatima Abubakar, said the scheme was “beyond the jurisdiction of the National Universities Commission,” and asked the commission to…
The Lagos State government has vowed to clear the backlog of pensions by the end of 2023. The Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Mr. Afolabi Ayantayo, disclosed this in a media chat with journalists on Monday. This was as he affirmed the state government’s commitment to continually upscale and upskill the civil service in order…
Cross River governor, Prince Bassey Otu, says the state security architecture is intact, hence ready to host the world during its 32-days event. Otu gave the assurance on Sunday, while flagging off the first Carnival dry run, at the millennium park in Calabar, the state capital. The governor represented by his deputy, Rt Hon Peter…
Car horns in Quito blared in celebration Sunday as banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, became violence-riddled Ecuador’s youngest president-elect ever. With 90 per cent of votes counted, the electoral authority announced Noboa as the victor. Moments earlier, socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez conceded defeat and offered her “profound congratulations” to Noboa, “because this is democracy.”…
The new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Aisha Rimi, has pledged to advance Nigeria’s economy through strategic investment promotion. Rimi made this pledge during her opening address after resuming at NIPC headquarters on Monday, in Abuja. In a major reshuffling last Friday, President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of a…
President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said Israel must eliminate the Hamas terror group but rejected reoccupying the Gaza Strip. Biden made this known in an interview with CBS on Sunday, stressing that reoccupying the Gaza Strip would be a “big mistake.” The US President made this known as Israeli troops prepared for…
