• Accuse Landlords, Estate Agents Of Excessive Profiteering • Blame Inflation, High Cost Of Building Materials Not Landlords — Property Managers • Situation Triggers Relocation From City Centres To Suburbs • Govt Should Build Rent-to-own Affordable Houses For Nigerians, Say Experts The appearance of Chukwuemeka Okeke is sure to draw attention. He is frail and […]
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At least, more than 74,819 candidates are participating in the ongoing 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates nationwide. Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, made this known on Saturday while monitoring the examination at Government Science Secondary School Gombe, Gombe State. Director, Information and Digital Communication, Azeez Sani, said in […]
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• Pledges To End Gas Flaring • Nation To Rollout 100 Electric Buses President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria is taking significant step towards a sustainable and eco-friendly future by pioneering initiative to deploy a fleet of 100 electric buses. The President has also expressed his administration’s commitment to end gas-flaring in the country following the […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, has commended the State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC, for a seamless and peaceful Local Government Councils electoral process on Saturday. Also, he thanked the Ekiti electorate for their peaceful conduct in the election which took place in all the 16 local government areas and 22 Local Development Council Areas […]
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The Senate has urged the Federal Government to henceforth withhold statutory allocation to local councils without democratically elected leaders. The Senate’s recommendation came after a debate on the ‘Urgent Need to Halt the Erosion of Democracy: The Dissolution of Elected Councils in Benue State’, sponsored by Sen. Abba Moro (Benne South). The Senate condemned the […]
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• Lamentations Trail 7.9% Vote For Education, 4.9% For Health • Neglecting Social Sector Could Be Economically Fatal, Experts Warn • All Challenges Cannot Be Tackled In One Budget Cycle – NECA Stakeholders have begun to worry about the paltry 12.5 percent allocation for both health and education in the 2024 Appropriation Bill, predicting that […]
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By Yinka Fabowale My son, Oluwamayowa, began his secondary education career years ago with an impressive academic result, leading the entire Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 of a reputed boarding school in Oyo, in the first term mathematics test. By the turn of the session, however, the boy’s performance had incredibly and disappointingly sagged to […]
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World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General and former Nigeria’s Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks during the press conference of the G20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) during the G20 finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Venice on July 9, 2021. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation […]
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The Federal Government on Thursday announced that a new minimum wage regime would come into effect on April 1, 2024. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Idris Mohammed, made this announcement, saying that the current N30,000 minimum wage would expire at the end of March 2024. “Certainly, there is a new wage regime that […]
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By Tunde Odesola In all my column-writing life, I’ve never kicked off an article with a quotation. But if I was going to do so in this piece, I would’ve started with the most popular Yoruba incantation and chanted, “Ohun ta wi fun ogbó, l’ogbó n gbo, ohun ta wi fun ogbà, l’ogba n gba, […]
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