A new Commissioner of Police, CP Isyaku Mohammed has been posted to Osun State Police Command, following the retirement of former Commissioner of Police, AIG Patrick Kehinde Longe. A statement by the state police, SP Opalola Yemisi said that the new CP assumed office on Friday, 10th November, 2023. He was born some decades ago […]
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Disu The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the appointment of Tunji Disu as the new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, announced Disu’s appointment in a statement on Thursday morning. Adejobi in the statement also confirmed that IGP Egbetokun has ordered the […]
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Tinubu, Obi The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has defended the 2023 supplementary budget signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stating that it is a necessary response to the country’s current economic challenges. Idris’s response comes amid criticism from the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who opposed the approval […]
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Osun State chairman of the Parliamentary Staff Association Of Nigeria, Adekunle Adesina says that the ongoing strike would be temporarily suspended to enable Governor Ademola Adeleke present the state appropriation bill otherwise known as money bill for the next fiscal year. He stated this while speaking with the journalists in the assembly complex on the […]
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About 23 ,000 pensioners in Osun State will be enrolled in the Health insurance Scheme of the state government. Governor Ademola Adeleke dropped this hints while Flagging off pensioners’ enrollment for the Health insurance Scheme held at Local Government service commission, Abere office in Osogbo, on Wednesday. He said the government is registering all the […]
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A federal high court in Osogbo has convicted five persons for defrauding the immediate past Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Timothy Owoeye, N38 million in 2018. The defendants in the case, Kazeem Agbabiaka, Femi Oyebode, Babatunde Oluajo, Adebiyi Kehinde Oseni, Oyebanji Oyeniyi and Rasheed Ojonla were facing a 5-count charge before […]
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Though Nigeria has ratified the ILO Convention No. 190 (C190), which recognises the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment as well as ILO C87, which grants the protection and rights of workers, the conventions have failed to protect unionists in the country and elsewhere as they continued to […]
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Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (left); Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Olamilekan Adeola; President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; President Bola Tinubu; Speaker, House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abubakar Kabir Abubakar; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu […]
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. Anti-trade policies encourage diversion to neighbouring countries . Car clearance charges at port rise by 77% . Stakeholders seek reform to boost businesses, economic growth Nigeria’s alignment with the current economic reality, coupled with rising inflation, slow growth, floating of exchange rate and volatility in global oil prices, may have exposed the fragility of […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher, (1712-1778), it was who said, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” This profound thought borne out of knowledge which in turn was derived from experiencing, could not have been truer today than it was more than 300 years ago when he made his […]
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