Nigeria’s unemployment rate may hit 38.8 percent this year, forecasts by notable private sector institutions, have suggested. The figure is an average of the two most notable private sector-driven organisations that released forecasts on the likely state of the labour market this year, using different analytical techniques. Data users have not had the benefit of […]
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Census officials Against all odds, the National Population Commission said it is ready to conduct a national headcount from May 3, 2023, after the commencement date was shifted from March 29, following shifts also in the conduct of the governorship election nationwide. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has recently also confirmed the arrangement. […]
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IGP Alkali Baba Usman Police spokesperson CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi has condemned the assault of an unidentified man by a police officer in a viral video. A police officer was seen beating and slapping a man in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in a viral video shared on social media. Reacting to the video, Adejobi assured that […]
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A young man was stoned to death by an angry mob on Monday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, for allegedly killing two persons and injuring six others in a road accident. Police spokeswoman in the state, SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, confirmed the incident. Visibly sad over the killing through jungle justice, she told news men […]
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Transport union members (agberos) at Oshodi, Lagos…yesterday Photo: Eniola Daniel With the exception of high fuel costs, the cost of public transport in Lagos mega city and life generally can be more tolerable without the self-styled transport unions and their excesses perennially harboured by the state government, Gbenga Salau reports. Public transport fares in the […]
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Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed The violation of section 38 of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act, which restricts the amount the bank can lend to the Federal Government to a five percent cap of real revenues of the previous accounting year may trigger exchange rate-induced inflation. If this […]
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Some days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) tweaked the Health Workforce Support and Safeguard list, the United Kingdom also revised its policy on the recruitment of health workers from overseas. The code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, recently updated, has Nigeria returned to the red […]
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An Akure-based cleric, Prophet Segun Akintoye, has said that Ondo State, and particularly Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency needs idealism and determination. He said this in a congratulatory message to Hon Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, who represents Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, for winning reelection into the House in the […]
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The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has been tasked to start work on building an international seaport in Ondo State, and mining the fabulous bitumen deposits in the state for export, once he assumes office next month. Making the call in a congratulatory message to the former Lagos State governor for emerging victorious at the February […]
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By Sonnie Ekwowusi Today is Easter. The commemorating of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, though He was in the form of God, did not regard His equality with God as something to be grasped. Rather He emptied Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a Cross. But on the […]
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