Ogun State workers, under the auspices of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint Negotiation Committee (JNC) have dissociated themselves from the planned protest over alleged unremitted pension funds in the State. The unions, which were represented by Comrade (Amb) Hameed Benco Ademola, the Chairman of NLC, Comrade Akeem Lasisi, TUC Chairman and Isa Olude, the ... Read More »
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DSS Warns Against Planned Protests, Citing Potential for Violence
The Department of State Services (DSS) has followed the discourse on planned protests in parts of the country in the coming weeks by persons and groups yet to identify themselves in the public as leaders of the plot. While peaceful protest is a democratic right of citizens, the Service has confirmed a sinister plan by some elements to infiltrate the ... Read More »
FG Trains 56 Master Trainers for Universal Basic Education in Southern Nigeria
The Federal Government has trained fifty-six Master Trainers for the recently launched Universal Basic Education (UBE) Effective Schools Program, selected from states across the Southern part of the country, including Kwara and Kogi States. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, announced this in Ibadan during a 5-day training program for the participants. He ... Read More »
Lagos Assembly Urges Youth to Cancel Planned Protest; Calls for Stakeholders’ Meeting
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday held a plenary session calling on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to take major steps to avert the planned nationwide protest in the State. The lawmakers, in a ‘Matter of Urgent Public Importance’ brought by Majority Leader Noheem Adams, noted the devastation caused by the EndSARS protest of 2020 in Lagos and urged the ... Read More »
TESCOM Announces CBT Exam Dates for Secondary School Recruitment
The Oyo State Post Primary School Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM has fixed Monday, July 29- August 2, 2024, for computer-based test (CBT) for applicants in the ongoing recruitment exercise for teaching and non-teaching staff of secondary schools. The Chairman, TESCOM, Pastor Akinade Alamu, stated this in Ibadan today, during a press conference. He said a total of 62, 000 applicants ... Read More »
President Tinubu to Launch Nigeria Police Green Initiative
The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, will on Thursday 25th July, 2024, launch the Nigeria Police Green Initiative at the Nigeria Police Resource Centre, Jabi, Abuja. The Nigeria Police Green Initiative is an initiative of the NPF to promote environmental sustainability within our operations and facilities, as well as reduce the environmental ... Read More »
First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Calls on Agric Agencies to Engage Young Farmers
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu says, to expand the food sufficiency drive in Nigeria and make it sustainable, initiatives in the agricultural sector must be set up to encourage children and youth to become young farmers Senator Oluremi Tinubu stated this when she received the Management team of the National Agricultural Development Fund, ... Read More »
Oyo State Government Cracks Down on Illegal Mining with New Executive Order
The Oyo State Government has said that the time has come to address the menace of illegal mining in the State, as these unlawful activities have gone unchecked. The government said illegal mining has caused untold damage to the environment and hasjeopardized the health and livelihoods of its people. This disclosure was made today by the Director General, Oyo State ... Read More »
NDLEA Captures Elusive Lagos Drug Baron, Temo, After Years of Pursuit
After many years of wearing the toga of invincibility, the overall head of the Mushin, Lagos drug cartel, 57-year-old Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, populary known as Temo), has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at his enclave after an initial resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums. In the last two years, ... Read More »
“Governor Eno’s Ibom Towers Project Receives Strong Backing from Ex-Lawmaker Umanah”
Plans by the Akwa Ibom State Government to build a 19-storey ultra modern commercial tower to replace the old and dilapidated Governor’s Lodge in Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital, to enable the state play big in Nigeria’s real estate sector has continued to gain the support of critical stakeholders. Among those in support of the decision to convert the dilapidated ... Read More »