Politics

Folake Sokoya The Kwara State Government will on Thursday, February 1 commence the engagement of the first batch of 1,210 beneficiaries of the World Bank assisted Public Work Fare (PWF) Component of the Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO). This was made known in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Head of the State Public Workfare Unit, Mr. …

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The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has set a new target of registering 78 million Nigerians into its data base before the end of the year. So far, it has enrolled over 28 million Nigerians and legal residents into the National Identity Database (NID) and issued them the National Identification Number (NIN). The milestone was attained last January 10. NIMC …

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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos has said a change of perspective on the part of the state workforce can transform the state public service. This was his submission on Tuesday at a two-day training session with the theme: ‘Creating and Maintaining A Customer-Centric Driven Culture In The Public Service Delivery System,’ organised by the state government under the aegis of …

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his counterpart in Ogun, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and wife of Nigeria’s Vice President(VP), Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, on Tuesday joined thousands of friends, family members and others to pay tributes to the late Deji Tinubu who passed on last Thursday. At the funeral service held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Victoria Island, Lagos, …

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Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has debunked claims in certain quarters that he is planning to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he left with some other chieftains of the party prior the 2015 general elections. In a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr. Muyideen Akorede, the governor …

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Folake Sokoya In partnership with Stellenbosch University, the 14th Security Watch Africa (SWA) Awards, Conference and Exhibition, would from February 6 to 9, 2017, hold in Kigali, Rwanda. The award nominees include those from private security, governance, academic and industrial sectors for their efforts in changing their respective societies one-step at a time. The event, which would be hosted by …

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The growth and development of the nation’s economy are something good for both Nigerian and American businesses and the United States will continue to support Africa’s largest economy in finding new avenues for growth,Consul General,John Bray, has said. Bray said this on Monday during the Closing Gong Ceremony of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) where he went to “learn firsthand” …

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Director General of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Babatunde Irukera, on Monday said the Lagos State has emerged one of the largest and most recognised economies in the world. Irukera made the submission when he led a delegation of the CPC, top officials from the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), and United Nations Industrial …

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By Amos Okioma The power outage in Bayelsa and parts of Rivers was the handiwork of youths who shut down a transmission station at Ahoada in Rivers state. Mr John Onyi, Manager, Corporate Communications at Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) who confirmed the development said that the utility company was incapacitated by the restive youths who threw the public …

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Folake Sokoya Paramount Ruler and King of Iwo land, Osun State, HIM Oba AbdulRasheed Adewale Akanbi, has said that practice of field grazing and cattle roaming is barbaric and should be abolished at once because “It does not conform to modernization and 21st century development of any country.” Oba AbdulRasheed made this statement during a meeting with stakeholders at his …

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