Governors’ advice on leaner public service rattles labour, experts

Buhari. Photo/Facebook/Asorock ‘Cash-starved governors seeking premature retirement for selfish reasons’ Move will demoralise workers, affect productivity FG cannot be trusted with the payment of severance benefits Incentivise OPS to revitalise economy, govt urged Workers to demand an inflation-adjusted pay rise Revive manufacturing sector to boost local economy, experts tell FG There are worries that the […]

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Dariye, Nyame, others released from prison

Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and a former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, and three others have been released. The Council of State, led by President Muhammadu Buhari had on April 14 approved the pardon of the convicts, a decision which generated outcries. Dariye and Jolly Nyame were released from Kuje Custodial […]

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WAEC releases 2022 WASSCE results

A screenshot from WAEC result checker website The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. Speaking on Monday at WAEC office, Yaba, the Head of Nigeria Office, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, said, “The results are being uploaded on the results website. Candidates […]

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PDP shifts Caucus, NEC meetings over plot to sack Ayu

The last is yet to be heard about the crisis rocking the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It was gathered in Abuja, on Monday, that the discovery of a plot by a section of the party’s leadership to sack the National Chairman, Senator Iyiochia Ayu, was largely responsible for the postponement of the Caucus […]

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Soyinka says Pyrates Confraternity’s video mocking Tinubu distasteful

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has expressed disgust at a viral video showing some purported members of the National Association of Seadogs, otherwise called Pyrates Confraternity, mocking the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in a song. In the one-minute video, the members dressed in red and white attire danced and […]

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Oyo begins operation zero potholes

Oyo State Government on Monday, started operation zero potholes as the State Road Maintenance Agency begins rehabilitation of roads and distilling of drainage across Ibadan metropolis and its environs. This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatubosun. He said the Chairman, Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, […]

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PDP summons NEC meeting, George seeks Ayu’s removal

The South-West arm of the Peoples Democratic Party has joined the push for the resignation of the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu. Notable South-West members of the PDP said on Saturday that with the All Progressives Congress picking its Presidential candidate from the South-West in the person of Bola Tinubu, the PDP would […]

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Buhari’s Nigeria: Media managers also cry

By Martins Oloja After so many years of contextual reporting of how Nigeria’s fragile economic state has been affecting various sectors of the same economy, senior media managers rose from a unique workshop of their own at the weekend in Lagos where there was some stakeholder consensus that the authorities and business managers in Nigeria […]

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Nigeria’s economy on brink of collapse, NECA raises alarm

Says energy crisis, forex scarcity, falling currency, others bleeding economy Urges FG to resolve challenges with holistic approach The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, Sunday in Lagos, raised the alarm that the nation’s economy is on the brink of collapse, warning that spiralling inflation, rising energy cost (scarcity of FOREX, the dwindling value of the […]

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