Views: Visits 1 Secretary General to the Federation/Chairman Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha. By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The federal government has again declared 132 Nigerians as “persons of interest” for violating the COVID-19 travel protocol by evading the mandatory 7-day quarantine for persons arriving from restricted countries. The Presidential Steering Committee, PSC, on COVID-19 had on 1st May, 2021 issued a Travel Advisory for Passengers arriving Nigeria from Brazil, India and Turkey. The PSC had last week declared 27 foreigners and 62 Nigerians as persons of interest and flagged their Nigerian travelling passports. Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF and Chairman of the PSC, Mr Boss Mustapha, who disclosed this in a statement issued Thursday in Abuja said the precautionary measures are a necessary step to mitigate the risk of importation of variants of concern and break the chain of transmission
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Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, in this interview with FRIDAY OLOKOR, explains the relevance of the scheme to national development
Some critics believe that the NYSC is indirectly fuelling unemployment in Nigeria because there are employers that rely on corps members every time there is mobilisation rather than employing permanent workers. How do you address this?
Not at all. The NYSC is not fuelling unemployment. The NYSC members contribute to our national development. Some corps members are retained by their employers on a permanent basis. But apart from that, they also learn a lot from their places of primary assignment. And to address this challenge of unemployment, the NYSC introduced a skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development programme for corps members and we have partnered various stakeholders like the Bank of Industry, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Access Bank and Unit
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FG meets resident doctors after eight-day strike today
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The National President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige
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The Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors will on Friday (today) hold a meeting to address the ongoing strike embarked upon by the doctors.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment spokesman, Charles Akpan, disclosed this in an invite to journalists on Thursday.
He said the parley which would hold at the ministry, will be chaired by the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and attended by resident doctors and representatives of the Federal Government.