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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 »Cross River tribunal quashes appeals against PDP as APC loses Reps slot in Enugu
The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has struck out all 10 petitions filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) candidates. Earlier in the day, the tribunal had struck out the petition ...
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 »1,320 schools to benefit from World Bank’s grants in Bauchi
No fewer than 1,320 schools in five council areas of Bauchi State have been enlisted to benefit from the 2019 schools improvement project grants sponsored by the World Bank. Governor Bala Muhammed disclosed this yesterday while presenting cheques of N500, ...
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 »Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has said since President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, he should resign honourably, insisting that that they would treat him as true statesman if he did so. This followed escalating insecurity, herdsmen killings and attack on the residence of Chairman of the Southeast Governor’s Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi Speaking with Journalists in Abakaliki, Youth Leader of the party in Ebonyi Elder Sam Over, also condemned the raid on the Abuja residence of Governor Umahi by policemen in the nation’s capital saying, Nigerians were no longer safe. Sam urged the police to disclose reason for the invasion of Umahi’s residence to avail Nigerians the motive behind the raid.
Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has said since President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, he should resign honourably, insisting that they would treat him as true statesman ...
Read More »Youths protest against bandits’ attacks, set Katsina SGG’s house, APC’s offices ablaze
Irate youths, who were protesting against incessant attacks by bandits on their community, have set the house of Secretary to the Katsina State Government (SSG), Mustapha Inuwa in Danmusa Council Area of the state on fire. They also set ablaze ...
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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