Kaduna State government has directed Civil servants below Grade Level 14 are to work from home from Monday, 21st December 2020, subject to directives or summons by their supervisors who may require their presence in the office. A statement by the Special adviser to the state governor on Media Continue Reading
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has dismissed four senior Police Officers for misconduct and acts unbecoming of public officers. This is contained in a statement on Sunday by the PSC Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani in Lagos. Ani said that the PSC took the decisions at the 10th Plenary Meeting presided over […]Continue Reading
Ondo State Commissioner for Regional Integration and Special Duties, Prof. Bayonile Ademodi is dead. Ademodi died on Saturday, an official has said. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview on Sunday in Akure. Ademodi was 68 years old, […]Continue Reading
Eighty-four victims of kidnap mostly Islamiyya school children have been rescued from bandits in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina state. This followed a distress call received on Saturday at about 2200hrs, by the DPO Dandume, that some Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village, numbering about eighty, were attacked while on […]Continue Reading
Australia’s most populous state has announced new restrictions for the Greater Sydney area in an attempt to contain a growing outbreak of Covid-19. Household gatherings will be capped at 10 people and hospitality venues at 300 until Wednesday. Residents had already been told to stay at home. The cases were found in the city’s Northern […]Continue Reading
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is in “close contact” with UK officials over the emergence of a new variant of coronavirus. The new variant is spreading more rapidly than the original version, but is not believed to be more deadly. Large parts of south-east England, including London, are now under a new, […]Continue Reading
Nine people have been killed after an oxygen ventilator exploded at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in southern Turkey, officials say. The blast caused a fire in the intensive care unit of the private Sanko University Hospital in Gaziantep, the local governor’s office said. At least one of the patients died while being transferred to […]Continue Reading
It was a moment full of fun, music, encomium and gratitude to the almighty God as the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ondo State Council rounded off its weeklong 2020 Press Week with a dinner and award night. The venue, NUJ Press Centre was filled to capacity with journalists from within and outside the state as well […]Continue Reading
Wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola wants Nigerians to show more love to one another, especially at this trying period of the country. Mrs. Oyetola, who made the call at the annual Christmas party for children in the state, noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has further underscored the need to show love to everyone. While describing […]Continue Reading
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Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Pauline Tallen has distributed relief materials to some vulnerable groups in Ibadan. The groups are vesico vaginal fistula, VVF, patients who were neglected by their husbands and people living with disabilities. Among the relief materials distributed to the beneficiaries were bags of rice, textile materials Continue Reading
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has signed the Ondo State 2021 Appropriation Bill into law Endorsing the appropriation bill at his office in Akure, Governor Akeredolu expressed optimism that the new budget, tagged, “budget of hope” would move the state forward Governor Akeredolu lamented that COVID-19 pandemic had greatly dragged the state’s revenue Continue Reading
The Oyo State House of Assembly has re-considered the just passed 2021 Appropriation and Finance Bills and re-passed a downward amount of 268.8 billion naira. The House had on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 passed the bills into law in the tune of #273.7 billion as against #266.6 billion presented by the governor, left with a […]Continue Reading
806 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-287FCT-255Kaduna-36Akwa Ibom-29Katsina-25Rivers-25Kwara-21Bauchi-19Kano-15Ondo-14Plateau-13Yobe-12Nasarawa-11Ebonyi-9Gombe-8Abia-7Delta-4Imo-4Osun-3Anambra-2Borno-2Cross River-1Edo-1Ekiti-1Jigawa-1Ogun-1 Source: NCDCContinue Reading
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen has implored Oyo State Government to be more committed to addressing challenges of violence against women and children, molestation, and other social vices affecting women and the children. The minister stated this during an advocacy visit to Governor Seyi Makinde in his office as part […]Continue Reading
Properties worth millions of naira were this afternoon razed by fire when a fuel-laden tanker exploded after it slipped off the road and fell into a ditch at Alesinloye junction, Ibadan. According to witnesses, the driver of the tanker, which was coming from NNPC Depot at Apata, did not heed to advice of other road […]Continue Reading
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, Stakeholders have encouraged African descents to embark only on regular and safe migration process to fulfill their aspirations. They made the call while reflecting on prospects and challenges of migration around the world. Adeddayo adelowo reports that the theme for the 2020 International Migrants Day is ‘Reimagining Human Continue Reading
The Osun House of Assembly has passed the state 2021 Appropriation Bill of 109.8 billion naira after it was read for the third time at the plenary. Our Correspondent, Funmi Adekoya reports that Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, had on November 10, presented year 2021 draft budget estimate of 109,855,051,640 billion naira christened “Budget Continue Reading
A religious leader, Venerable Joshua Omole wants Nigerians to invest in people around them and always be generous to the needy. Venerable Omole who is the Vicar in Charge, All souls Anglican Church, Ibara Housing Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State gave the charge at the funeral service for an administrator and former Registrar, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, […]Continue Reading
The Delta State Government says over nineteen thousand students of the state origin have begun receiving the payment for 2019/2020 bursary across one hundred and forty-eight institutions across the nation. The Executive Secretary Delta State Scholarship Board, Mr Sunday Oritsedere, made this known in Asaba, where he said the sum of twenty thousand naira was […]Continue Reading
Gómìonà Seyi Makinde tìpínlẹ̀ ọ̀yọ́, ti se ìfilọ́lẹ̀ ìsí àkọ̀kọ̀, sísètò ìjọba lórí òpó ẹ̀rọ ayélujára pẹ̀lú ẹ̀rọ ayábiasa tó lé ní ẹgbẹ̀rún kan níye, tí àwọn ilésẹ́ ìjọba àti ẹ̀ka yo ma lo nípinlẹ̀ yí. Ètò ọ̀hún lówáyé níbùdó ìmọ̀ ẹ̀rọ ayélujára tó wà ní secretariat Agodi ìbàdàn. Gómìnà Makinde lásìkò tón wo àwọn […]Continue Reading
Àwọn ọmọkùnrin ọmọ ilé ìwé ìmọ̀ Sciensi tó wà ní Kankara tó lé ní ọọdunrun tí wọ́n jí gbé lọ, tí wọ́n gba òmìnira lálẹ́ àná ni wọ́n ti gúnlẹ̀ si ìpínlẹ̀ Kastina báyi. Àwọn akẹ́kọ náà ni àwọn òsìsẹ́ aláabo sìn wọ olú ìlú ìpínlẹ̀ náà. Diẹ lára wọn ni wọ́n si wọ asọ […]Continue Reading
Violence against persons in Oyo State will soon become a thing of the past members of the House of Assembly are set to pass the bill into law. Indications to this effect emerged this afternoon as the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin, played host to the Minister of Women Affairs, […]Continue Reading
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for NIN retrieval requests. In a statement, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Ibrahim Pantami said the directive which takes immediate effect, is an intervention aimed Continue Reading