Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has claimed the university has the manpower to bring about drugs and vaccines that would help in drastically curtailing the ravaging pandemic in the country. He called on the ...
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Feed SubscriptionASUU Warns Of Fresh Strike Over Unremitted Deductions
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday blamed the Federal Government, as well as the Accountant General of the Federation, over what it called the victimisation of its members. It said the Federal Government had refused to pay its ...
Read More »Buhari Appoints A’Ibom Air Force General NDA Deputy Commandant
…Two Others Survive Army Shake-up By Inemesit Ina The lone two-star general from Akwa Ibom State in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Vice Marshal Mfon Jackson Ekpoh, has been appointed the Deputy Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), ...
Read More »N41.6b UBEC Grant: States Fail To Access – Executive Secretary Cries Out
Despite the poor state of many primary schools across the country, over N41,064,896,752.62 Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) matching grants are lying unaccessed. UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hamid Boboyyi disclosed this in Abuja yesterday while presenting the 2020 capital budget ...
Read More »Delta has attained 35% affirmative for women – Woman Commissioner
Delta State Government says the state has attained 35 per cent affirmative action for women in elective and appointive offices. Mrs Florence Alatan, State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Community and Social Development, stated this on Wednesday in Asaba. She was ...
Read More »16 States Take Delivery Of 1.8m Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine
16 out of the 36 states of the federation yesterday received a total of 1,871,050 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the federal government. LEADERSHIP findings showed that the states got doses of the vaccine as follows: Benue State ...
Read More »Buhari Inaugurates New NDDC Headquarters Complex Thursday
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday inaugurate the newly-completed office complex of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which work started in 1996. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, announced this while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt ...
Read More »Why I Have not Taken AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine – Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday explained why he has not yet taken the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Many governors have taken the vaccine but Sanwo-Olu is yet to take it even when the state took delivery of the vaccines ...
Read More »PIB: South-South Governors Demand 10 Percent As Host Community Trust Fund
…Want NDDC funds escrowed till Buhari reconstitutes board Governors of the South-South States demanded an upward review of the provision of 2.5 percent as Host Community Trust Fund in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to 10 percent in the best ...
Read More »WOMEN DAY CELEBRATION: FG Offers tax relief, funds for women entrepreneurs
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, assured on Monday that the federal government through the implementation of Finance Acts 2019 and 2020 will provide tax relief, funds and other support to micro, small and medium ...
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