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Vanguard News Insecurity: Senate focuses on decentralising Nigeria’s security architecture — Spokesperson On Shina Abubakar, Osogbo The spokesperson of the Senate, Dr Basiru Ajibola has reiterated that the senate is working on decentralizing security apparatus to stem the tide of insecurity in the country. He also commended the Federal Government for securing the release of kidnapped Secondary school students at Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State irrespective of terms used to n...

The Federal Government has commenced plans to review the labour laws to make them contemporaneous with what obtains globally and in line with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, dropped this hint in his office while receiving the Deputy Chief Mission of the United States in Nigeria, Kathleen FitzGbbon and Labour Attaché, Carolyn Parker. According to the Minister the reviewed labour laws will be sent to the Nati...

The centre was rehabilitated, equipped and donated by Skill “G”, a private sector-based organization. He commended the centre initiative to have been born out of the 60 years of mutual diplomatic relations between both countries. Ben-Shoshan said, “ A great example of the cooperation is the recently inaugurated i-FAIR 2020/21. “Out of thousands of applications from across Nigeria, 75 participants were selected and inducted into a five-month intensive programme. “This is to help develo...

Enrollment into public schools improved because of reforms- Ekiti SUBEB Published The Executive Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi has attributed the remarkable increase in the enrollment figures of public primary and Junior Secondary Schools in the state to the ongoing reforms in the basic education sector in the state. The SUBEB chairman who made the assertion in Ado-Ekiti while playing host to a monitoring team from the Universal Basic Ed...

PHCs: The need for a more viable funding alternative By Fri Dec 11 2020 The recent eradication of wild polio virus from Nigeria says a lot about human resilience and the capacity to achieve much with little resources when there is genuine determination to succeed. It also shows how further the country could go in terms of attaining the universal health coverage, given the right funding. Ending the dreaded disease has been quite a feat by the Federal Ministry of Health through the National Prima...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 December 2020 THE Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, unwittingly provided an unpleasant insight into the lopsided governance template in Nigeria when he gave a damning verdict on illiteracy and conditions of living among children in the rural areas. It is not only in education provision that the rural areas are short-changed; every other development indicator is grim. At the root of poverty lies the deprivation of people’s access to necessities such as ...