Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the release of bond certificates worth N2.1bn to retirees under the contributory pension scheme at the state and local government levels. The state’s Head of Service, Samuel Ayanleye Aina in a statement also disclosed that the beneficiaries shall be presented the bond certificates at the LG service commission […]
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The former director general of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Lukman, has enjoined President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to set performance targets for his newly appointed Ministers. He also demanded the immediate restoration of constitutional order in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Kaduna-born politician who recently resigned from his position as the […]
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ECOWAS leaders • Niger’s military junta appoints ex-Economy Minister as new PM • Says it cannot receive ECOWAS delegation for security reasons • Mali warns of catastrophe if ECOWAS intervenes in Niger • No headway as U.S. envoy meets coup leaders, denied access to Bazoum • Blinken: Wagner taking advantage of instability • ACF urges […]
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• Inaugurates committee on fiscal policy, sets 18% tax to GDP target • President knows Nigerians are suffering, says Okonjo-Iweala President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, expressed his administration’s commitment to break the cycle of overreliance on borrowing for public spending, and the resultant burden of debt servicing it places on management of limited government revenues. Inaugurating […]
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• Five banks hold N11.8 trillion govt securities• Economic distress real concern, say experts • As Nigeria, Kenya show signs of replicating Ghana’s path • Lenders urged to restrict NPL to less than 10% • ‘Concerns about default are tenable, debt-to-revenue ratio is rising’ As African governments fight to stave off debt distress, experts have […]
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its protest slated for Wednesday August 9, 2023. NARD President, Innocent Orji, who said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme, however, stated that the industrial action by the association continues. “Yes, we put on hold the protest that was supposed to start this (Wednesday) […]
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Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has nominated the ex-chairman of Irepodun Local Government, Mr. Kamarudeen Ajisafe, as a replacement for Mr. Soji Adagunodo, the erstwhile South West chairman of the party, who died in May. A communique signed by the state PDP chairman, Mr. Sunday Bisi, obtained on Wednesday, said Ajisafe’s choice […]
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—- 22 hours daily electricity by 2025 underway Ondo state government on Tuesday explained why it would not publish the list of the newly created 33 LCDAs for now. It made the explanation against the backdrop of criticisms that trailed the creation. It will be recalled that a list which leaked last week after the […]
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The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Monday , unveiled the chairmen of the 74 full-standing committees of the 10th Senate. The Senate committees were formed after hours of closed-door sessions. Some of the heavyweights, who were named committee chairmen include Housing and Urban Development, Aminu Tambuwal; Interior, Adams Oshiomole; Defence, Ahmed Lawan; Water Resources, Abdulaziz […]
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The family of the late former governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, has said they have no single piece of land on Banana Island despite that the island was developed under the Jakande administration. Jakande’s son, Seyi, while speaking on Monday during the maiden edition of Lateef Jakande Annual Memorial Lecture held at Sheraton […]
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