Human Rights Activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has faulted the Presidency’s approval to review grazing reserves in 25 states in the country. Falana who was a guest on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics, said: “we’ve gone beyond this stage of looking for grazing routes”. “As far as the law is concerned, the President…
The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has said that the ban on open grazing by some state governments is counterproductive and damaging to the nation’s spirit of coexistence. Baba-Ahmed made the comment during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. “We are not against open grazing. We are in support of ranching, domesticating…
The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has identified what it called lack of commitment by some permanent secretaries and other directorate level officers as one of the factors that hindered the full implementation of the 2017-2020 civil service plan. This is as the office proposed to introduce a performance-related…
The Federal Government according to presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi, has approved a Federal Roads and Bridges Tolling Policy and Regulations. According to Ogunlesi, who is a Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, the government made the decision at a Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in…
The Federal and state governments have been urged to continue to support school operators in its commitment to the reduction in the population of out of school children.The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) had conservatively put the population of out of school children in Nigeria at over 10 million Speaking at the 13th graduation…
The Nigerian Government has commenced biometric capture of primary schools in Borno to effectively facilitate the National homegrown school feeding programme. It would be recalled that Borno State in collaboration with the Nigerian Government had on July 7th commenced the school feeding programme in the State to provide nutritious meals to all pupils in public primary…
The President of the Association of Resident Doctors at the National Hospital in Abuja on Monday said the Federal Government barely negotiates with health workers until an industrial action is introduced. Dr. Akanimo Ebong, who is also the Senior Registrar at the National Hospital’s Department Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology, made the remark while speaking on…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said that the tractors, farm implements, agro-chemicals and other farm supplements that the state received from the Federal Government will support the intention to achieve food security as one of the cardinal points of his administration’s programme. Fayemi described the gesture from the President Muhammadu Buhari through National…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to resume the industrial action it suspended since December 2020 over the Federal Government’s alleged failure to honour many of the agreements it signed with the Union. The Chairperson, ASUU, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr. Ibrahim Inuwa, stated this while speaking with select journalists at the…
