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The Lagos State Service Commission has assured workers that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration would continue to improve their welfare but frown on absenteeism and tardiness. The Commissioner representing Ikeja Division in the commission, Oladipo Ajomale, during a job evaluation ...

Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, has sought synergy among humanitarian actors for intervention in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, mostly affected by insurgency. Maihaja made the call yesterday in his opening remark at ...

Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPR) has sought a bench warrant to arrest coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger Delta militants from 2012 to date. Chairman of the Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla ...

Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has promised to lead a corruption-free judiciary, demanding a list of genuinely indicted persons for appropriate action. He made the pledge yesterday after being sworn in as the nation’s 18th substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by ...

The Senate was erupted in uproar when former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, entered the red chamber for his screening. The exercise to confirm the 43 ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja had begun peacefully at 11:00am and ...

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) has invented Anaerobic Digestion Technology (ADT) digesters, capable of converting organic wastes to biogas. Its Environmental Biotechnology and Bio-conservation Department (EBD) spearheaded the invention. Speaking at the unveiling of the prototype bio-digesters and bio-methane ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded arrangements to commence harvesting its cotton plants in October this year. Assistant Director, Department of Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) at CBN, Bademosi Tinuola, disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at ...

Benue and Nasarawa states have made a pledge to keep the peace and unity between both states in the face of obvious threats to their security, unity and brotherliness. This was the consensus yesterday when Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa ...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has insisted that the state’s budget must address people’s needs. He directed top civil servants to meet him at the state’s school of special needs for the review of their budgets. The governor said he ...

Governor Emeka Ihedioha has charged traditional rulers to be united and give the state government the needed support and corporation to succeed. He reiterated his administration’s commitment to restoring Imo traditional values, adding that the monarchs would be treated with ...