• Gov approves N100K each for 89 Law School students A total of 8,304 final year students of Kwara State origin have each been paid N5000 as bursary straight into their accounts following weeks of electronic processes and verification of their applications by the government. The AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration had recently launched a strictly e-bursary in a step meant to ... Read More »
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Jerry oseni heads for supreme court over Lalong victory
A few hours after the Court of Appeal dismissed his petition challenging Governor Simon Lalong ‘s victory, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau State, Jeremiah Useni, has headed to the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict of the appellate court. Useni’s Media Consultant, Mr Yiljap Abraham confirmed the development in a statement in Jos on Friday ... Read More »
ABODUN SET TO INAUGURATE NEW HoS, MINIMUM WAGE COMMITTEE
For your PPP to work, tackle infrastructural deficit As the Head of Service in Ogun State, Engr Lanre Bisiriyu takes a bow from the State Civil Service next week, Governor Dapo Abiodun has promise to expeditiously inaugurate a new one “to continue on the right path of leadership for the State public service.” He also said he would ... Read More »
Concerned Nigerians write PDP about human right abuses in Cross river and Akwa ibom states
Prince Uche Secondus The Chairman People’s Democratic Party Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5 FCT, Abuja Dear Chairman, Re: Human Rights violations in Cross River & Akwa Ibom States and other matters We write to express our displeasure and condemn the insensitivity of your party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on the rising intolerance and disturbing cases of human rights violations, ... Read More »
OGUN CANCELS MONTHLY SANITATION
The Ogun State Government has cancelled the monthly sanitation exercise in the State. The Government said it has also lifted restriction of movement order. This, the State Government said would enable secondary school students across the state to take part in the on-going National Examination Council (NECO) examinations. In a statement by Kunle Somorin, chief press secretary to ... Read More »
Kwara public school students to get free notebooks
Students across Kwara State public schools are to get free notebooks as part of government’s efforts to deepen access to quality education and ease the burden on the parents, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said. Speaking with the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) late Wednesday, AbdulRazaq said the sums of N70m was released to the Ministry of ... Read More »
LASG ANNOUNCES WAR AGAINST TRAFFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENDERS
…Appoints Opeifa To Head Committee On Law Enforcement Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has announced an inter-agency collaboration of all security and law enforcement agencies within the State to bring about lawful order. He said The Monitoring and Enforcement Coordination Committee to be headed by former Commissioner for Transport in the state, Comrade Kayode Opeifa is to monitor ... Read More »
LASG announces war against traffic and environmental offenders
…Appoints Opeifa To Head Committee On Law Enforcement Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has announced an inter-agency collaboration of all security and law enforcement agencies within the State to bring about lawful order. He said The Monitoring and Enforcement Coordination Committee to be headed by former Commissioner for Transport in the state, Comrade Kayode Opeifa is to monitor ... Read More »
WE’LL BE TOUGH ON SEX-FOR-MARK DONS – ABIODUN
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Thursday vowed to bring down the full weight of the law on lecturers who take advantage of their students or sexually harass them. His administration, he said, would not condone any form of sexual immorality or other vices in any of Ogun State-run institutions of higher learning. Prince Dapo Abiodun, who made ... Read More »
Rebuttal OF CANCERS AND MEDIA REPORTAGE by Wole Soyinka
Here we go again! I have not seen the final presentation of a BBC feature programme on Health Awareness in which my 2014 experience with cancer was featured, but have been bombarded by narratives of the most disquieting nature, distortions through either misreporting or media misconceptions of what the BBC feature actually conveyed. The first – and most urgent – ... Read More »