APC lashes Adeleke for appointing aide as OSSIEC chairman

The opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke for appointing a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Hashim Abioye, as the Chairman of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC. APC chairman in the state, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and […]

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Osun debunks N25,000 allowance pay to workers

Osun State Government has debunked the purported payment of N25 ,000 allowance to workers. In a Statement by the commissioner for Information and Orientation, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, it said “The attention of Osun state government has been drawn to the purported N25, 000 allowance to workers in November currently in circulation. “Against this backdrop, Osun […]

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Off-Cycle Gov Polls: Tension, anxiety as Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi decides

All eyes on Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states as INEC conduct Off-Cycle Gov Polls today. • Dire consequences await violence, rigging plotters, FG warns • Military, Police beef up security • Bayelsa leaders identify security flashpoints as coalition warns against rigging Amid concerns that today’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states could be […]

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IGP Egbetokun appoints Disu as Rivers CP, redeploys Emeka

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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FG defends supplementary budget, asks Obi to get his facts right

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 assembly workers suspend strike as Adeleke wades in

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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Osun to enrol 23,000 pensioners in Health Insurance Scheme.

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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Five jailed for defrauding Osun ex-speaker N38m

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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Unionists’ protection and gaps in ILO conventions

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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