Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has directed its members nationwide to go to work only two days in a week until the federal government attends to its demand of a 200 per cent increase in salary.COEASU national president, Dr Smart Olugbeko, in a statement yesterday, said the decision
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reappointed Mohamed Goni Alkali as the managing director, North East Development Commission (NEDC).Alkali will start a second term of four years after his screening and confirmation by the Senate.Alkali's name came to the Senate when President Tinubu sent a letter requesting for the screening and
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Justice Fadima Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, has ordered a former minister of science and technology, Dr Abdul Bulama and four others to enter their defence in the N450 million fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Ruling on
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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has met with its electoral officers as part of its review of the 2023 general election.The commission noted that the success of any election primarily depends on the ability to deploy personnel and materials to various locations, which involves the biggest logistic deployment the nation
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has debunked claims by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that Enugu State governor Peter Mbah forged his discharge certificate.The security agency indicted the NYSC for shoddy and hasty investigation in arriving at the conclusion that Mbah’s NYSC discharge certificate was fake. It said certificates
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In pursuit of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for vehicles, a team of engineers from India has arrived in Ogun State to begin the process of converting vehicles from fuel to CNG. The move signals the commencement of the E-Mobility and Gas Mobility Programme of the state government, which involves the conversion of
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The consortium of lawyers who have approached the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to commence committal proceedings against the director general of the State Security Service, (SSS) for disobedience to court order on the continued detention of suspended governor of Central Bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has accused the organisation
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The House of Representatives yesterday confirmed the appointment of service chiefs.They are Major Generals Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff; Taoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Army Staff; AVM Hassan Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff and Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, Chief of Naval Staff.This followed the consideration and adoption of the
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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has assured Nigerian workers that the Federal Government will review the salaries of its workers, to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.Akpabio gave the assurance when he received the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji, and members of the National Assembly from the
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Immediate past governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has refuted media report making the rounds that he obtained a N10 billion loan for the installation of Close Circuit Television Camera (CCTV) project in the metropolitan area of the state. Rebutting the said report credited to a civil society organisation, Ganduje
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