Politics

The Parliamentary Association of Nigeria (PASAN), Delta State House of Assembly chapter,has passed a vote of confidence on the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori,in what it has described as a welcome gift from the Christmas and New Year. PASAN also affirmed the Association’s happiness on members of the Assembly team of management for their interest in the …

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Folake Sokoya The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has said no civil servant had been asked to pay for their promotion in the state. The governor made this clarification during an interactive session with youth groups and associations from Ilorin West Local Government of the state, as part of an on-going consultation with stakeholders. He said that workers were …

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Alumni of the U.S. government sponsored Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program have concluded a four-day workshop for primary school English Language teachers. The workshop, which ended on Thursday, was tagged: “A Communicative Approach to English Language Instruction,” and was held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State (January 17-18) and Abraham Adesanya College of Education, Oyo Town, …

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Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has indicted President Muhammadu Buhari and berated the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on the violation of the rights of the members of the Bring Back Our Girls Group in Abuja, on Tuesday 23rd January, 2018. CDHR condemned the conduct of the …

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday inaugurated the Governing Council of the Citizens Mediation Centre (CMC), urging members of the Council to work assiduously to provide free and effective alternative dispute resolution of matters. Ambode, speaking at the inauguration ceremony in Lagos, affirmed his administration’s desire to ensure growth and expansion of the CMC in recognition of the important …

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The Lagos DNA and Forensic Centre in the last three months has resolved 35 cases out of the over 150 requests for forensic analysis it received from within and outside Nigeria. This is as the state government said it had awarded the contract for the expansion of the operations of the Centre to include a world class Forensic Toxicology and …

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Folake Sokoya The Kwara State government has released its federal allocation figures for the month of January, 2018. The Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Finance, Mr. Benjamin Fatigun in a statement on Wednesday, said the State government got a total of N3,577,723,205.47 as allocation for January. Giving a breakdown of the allocation figures, Fatigun disclosed that the State …

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The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has charged members of the House to redouble their efforts in their legislative duties in order to impact positively on the people of the state. This is as he also commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of the state for his continued support to the House. In his welcome address to …

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Dayo Emmanuel Nigerian students have been encouraged to get involved in the country’s electoral process. The call was made at a forum organised by the International Press Centre (IPC) with support from Action Aid and UK Aid. Titled Campus Conversation on governance, elections and related electoral issues, the event held at Ikorodu, Lagos was designed as a dialogue for Lagos …

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Folake Sokoya Adebayo John Orebiyi has advised youths to participate actively in party politics as one of the instruments to effect positive change in governance in Nigeria. Orebiyi, who is eyeing the Ogun State House of Assembly from Yewa South Constituency, said this at an event held recently in Ifekowajo Oke Odan Ward, where he officially joined the All Progressives …

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