The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, has warned that the President will sack ministers who fail to perform their duties. Usman said Tinubu is poised to deliver on his promise of making life better and easier for Nigerians.The presidential aide issued the warning …
Read More »Presidency breaks silence on cabinet reshuffle
The Presidency has refuted media reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is planning a cabinet reshuffle. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, made this disclosure on Sunday evening during an interview on TVC’s programme, Politics on Sunday. There have been media speculation of a …
Read More »Irukera Deserves Commendation For Getting Tobacco Company To Pay $110m Fine To Nigeria, Says Falana
Renowned senior lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has said that rather than being sacked, Former CEO of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Babatunde Irukera, should be sent a letter of commendation for turning around the agency. Falana stated that the use of the word “dismissal” was also …
Read More »Customs Grant Special Promotions to 14 Officers for Exceptional Performance
The Nigeria Customs Service has said that it has granted special promotion to fourteen officers in recognition of their exceptional performance in various assigned responsibilities. Comptroller General of Customs, Wale Adeniyi stated this at the Customs Corporate Headquarters Abuja on Thursday while decorating recently appointed Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs), Comptrollers, and …
Read More »N-Power Beneficiaries Receiving Arrears, Says Betta Edu
The Federal Government has resumed payment of arrears to beneficiaries of the N-Power programme. The beneficiaries were being owed some months’ salaries by the former President Muhammadu Buhari administration. However, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, said the payment of arrears to beneficiaries which was started …
Read More »FG targets 2025 to fully digitalize the civil service
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, said the plan to fully digitalize all processes in Ministries, Departments and Agencies by 2025 will lead to an automatic cut in the cost of governance. She also said that MDAs having been given the opportunity to ensure …
Read More »FG Moves NIMC, Border Commission, Others To OSGF
The federal government has moved the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and Galaxy Backbone Ltd (GBBL) to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The new changes were contained in a document by the Cabinet Affairs Office named “Mandate of Ministries, Departments and Agencies and Schedule …
Read More »Nigerian Professor Emerges as Seventh President of Cambridge Varsity.
The University of Cambridge has announced a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President on the University’s website. Uchegbu, who will succeed …
Read More »Certificates no longer guarantee jobs, seek demonstrable skills – JAMB Registrar Oloyede tells students
The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable skills as a means of survival, warning that very soon university degrees will no longer be the sole guarantors of jobs. Oloyede said this on Thursday at Kwara State University, …
Read More »President Tinubu approves exit of public varsities, polytechnics from IPPIS
President Bola Tinubu has given a nod for public universities captured in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, to exit the payment platform. The Minister of Education, Prof. Mamman Tahir, disclosed the information on Wednesday, shortly after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu. …
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