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The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has recovered and handed over 14 sheep and 120 cows believed to have been rustled along Kaduna-Abuja highway to the Kaduna State Government. The division’s Garrison Commander of the Division, Brigadier General Jimmy ...
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WANEP bemoans rising conflicts in Nigeria, unveils peace projects in six states
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria has lamented the increasingly violent conflicts in the country, which has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property. This follows its establishment of a weekly live radio programme in seven states ...
Read More »Taxes generated 60% of govt’s revenue in three months, says FIRS
Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that taxes contributed 60 per cent of revenues distributed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last three months. Fowler gave the hint when Chairman ...
Read More »Email users worried as Yahoo site partially crashes
Yahoo Mail users across the world were unable to access their emails for several hours yesterday following the temporary crash of the site. The incident drew the ire of thousands of users, who had no clue of how long the ...
Read More »Faulty boundary behind Tiv, Jukun violence, FG insists, CAN, coalition urge harmony, passage of peace bill
The Federal Government has identified improper demarcation between Benue and Taraba, as well as banditry and kidnapping as some of the major factors behind the raging bloodletting between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups in the northeastern state. A statement ...
Read More »Lagos budget not on ministry’s website three months after gov’s assent
State targets 5,000 women for empowerment, raise funding to N10b Three months after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the 2019 budget into law, the state’s financial plan is yet to be made available on the Ministry of Economic Planning ...
Read More »Activist alleges breach in NDDC board composition, urges review, threatens legal action to seek ‘redress’
Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari breached the rotational clause in the enabling law establishing the interventionist agency. Maintaining that it was ...
Read More »Imo pensions panel submits report, flay past records of pensioners
The Imo State panel on payment of pensions of all retirees chaired by Evans Uzokwe, a former Head of Service, submitted its report to Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeagucha. It decried the difficulty its members passed through ...
Read More »Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears And Gratuity; Ortom, Enough Is Enough and Governor Ortom Has Been Out Of Benue State For Three Weeks In USA And Japan, among others. They appealed to President Muhamnadu Buhari to help Benue Pensioners, saying they were dying in silence in their own country. The retirees also urged Governor Ortom to create Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for pensioners in the state, noting that their deaths on daily basis was due to inability to pay their medical bills. Leader of the pensioners, Comrade Peter Ikyado, who lamented that the governor ignored elderly people who have rendered selfless service to their fatherland to die in silence, noted that they have not committed any crime by retiring. Another pensioner said as much as pensioners could not afford to sponsor their children to school in China, Governor Ortom should pay them their pensions and gratuity so they could sponsor their children to attend school in Benue. He also questioned why the Governor found it difficult to pay their pensions and gratuity in spite of the yearly budgetary provision in the state’s budget for them. But in its reaction, Chief Press secretary to the governor, Tever Akase, said Ortom was fully committed to the welfare of senior citizens and appealed to the pensioners to trust the assurances the governor gave them through the Deputy Governor and Head of Service recently. However, at the time of filing this report, some of the pensioners confirmed that they have started receiving an alert for one-month arrear.
Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears ...
Read More »FG moves to monitor development partners aids for effectiveness
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Ikanade Agba, has underscored the need for coordination of the activities of development partners in Nigeria, saying: “It will now be compulsory in order to achieve aid effectiveness and efficiency.” The ...
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