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Delta State government has unveiled measures to contain any incident of coronavirus (COVID-19) by inaugurating a 10-man Rapid Response Team (RRT) in each of the 25 council areas and deploying medical facilities to all councils. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi ...
Read More »Uyo City Polytechnic shuts down over non-payment of 21 months salary
Academic and non-academic activities at the Uyo City Polytechnic in Akwa Ibom State have been grounded and the school shut down following non-payment of workers’ salaries for over 21 months. When The Guardian visited the Nduetong Oku Community in Uyo ...
Read More »Minister of Education commends JAMB for timely response to technical hitches during UTME
Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for its timely response to network hitches during Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country. The minister who was accompanied by the ...
Read More »PWDs want domestication of disability act in all states of the federation
A group of persons with disabilities (PWDs) under the aegis of the Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has charged other states to emulate the 10 states that have adopted domesticated the Disability Act in the country. Executive Director of ...
Read More »FG includes France, Germany, Spain in list of high-risk countries
The Federal Government has included France, Germany and Spain among high-risk countries with widespread community transmission of coronavirus on its watch list. Earlier, the Federal Government had list China, Japan, Iran, Italy and the Republic of Korea on its priority ...
Read More »ERA/FoEN urges FG to conduct forensic investigation of Lagos explosion, says incident ‘suspiciously different’ By Edu Abade
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Federal Government to conduct forensic investigation of the immediate and remote causes of the Abule-Ado explosion of Sunday, March 15, 2020, which killed scores and led to devastation ...
Read More »LAGOS LEGISLATORS FORUM WADES INTO CRISIS ROCKING NINTH ASSEMBLY
The Lagos Legislators Forum, which is the official body of all former lawmakers of the State House of Assembly has expressed concern over the crisis rocking the legislative house. According to a statement by the Spokesman of the Forum, Hon. ...
Read More »LAGOS LEGISLATORS FORUM WADES INTO CRISIS ROCKING NINTH ASSEMBLY
The Lagos Legislators Forum, which is the official body of all former lawmakers of the State House of Assembly has expressed concern over the crisis rocking the legislative house. According to a statement by the Spokesman of the Forum, Hon. ...
Read More »The Nigerian Customs Kwara state,Educate Stakeholders market associations on border closure in Nigeria: Seized goods worth N703,746,780.00 and 166 Illigal Migrants
The Nigeria Customs Service Kwara state on Friday sensitize stakeholders including textiles, shoes, veils and market women associations on the importance of continuous border closure in the Country Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba the Coordinator Joint Border Operations Drill sector ...
Read More »Niger Delta states deserve more than 13% derivation, Okowa insists
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has declared that oil-producing states deserved more than 13 per cent derivation from the Federation Account. Speaking when members of Post-Mortem Sub-Committee of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), led by Mr. Kabir Mashi, visited ...
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