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Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Youths from the Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Friday urged stakeholders to support the state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to succeed. The spokesman of the youth, Abdulmumin Lade-Yunusa, made the call in an interview with journalists in Ilorin. He said since the governor is the leader of the party in the state, all members should join him in his quest to make the state great again. He added that the youth are in suppo...

Share Biola Azeez takes a cursory look at the impact and effect of the ratio nine for women to seven for men in membership of the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State that was dissolved recently. In his resolve to compensate women in Kwara State over their alleged lack of representation at the last general election in the state in which all the elective positions went to men, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in December 2020, surprised many when he appointed nine women as co...

By Yinusa Ishola Ado-Ekiti, Jan 5, 2021 Ekiti state government, on Tuesday, said that its payment of N7.3bn Universal Basic Education (UBEC) counterpart fund was part of its intervention to reposition the education sector. Prof. Femi Akinwumi, Chairman, Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the commission’s activities geared towards uplifting basic education in the State. According to him, the N7.3bn payment was for the execution of proj...

Last Monday, the book, Olusegun Obasanjo: The Man, The General, The President written by Otunba Femmy Carrena was publicly unveiled to a select associates and strategic ‘partners’ of the former president. Around to spice the occasion was Emeritus Professor Michael Abiola Omolewa with his inspiring and stimulating presentation on why Obasanjo remains relevant on the country’s socio-political turf despite the perceived failings when he held fort as president from 1999-2007. We should ask o...

2020 witnessed an unprecedented closure of most sectors of the economy; education being the worst hit with the prolonged strike by academic staff union of public universities and delayed reopening of schools after the lockdown. In this report, Uchechukwu Nnaike and Funmi Ogundare recount activities that shaped the outgoing year 2020 can best be described as a year of uncertainty and struggle in the education sector. While the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was not envisaged, the in...

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Assembly has again approved a request by Governor Douye Diri, to obtain another loan of N3.5bn loan. The...

TODAY December 18, 2020 The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, says the Federal Government has commenced the review of the nation’s Labour Laws to meet what obtains globally. Ngige made this known while receiving a delegation led by Mrs Kathleen FitzGbbon, Deputy Chief Mission, U.S in Nigeria, during a visit on Thursday in Abuja. He said the review was necessary in line with the Conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). “We are amending our laws to beco...

Hon. Gentle Emelah is the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Education. In this interview with Funmi Ogundare, he shared the government’s plan to ensure that every community has a school where effective teaching and learning will take place, just as he stressed the need for collaboration among all stakeholders including parents, so as to ensure that education is on a sound footing and children are impacted. Excerpts: What is your ministry’s policy thrust for improving the literacy level in Baye...

Dec 22, 2020 From left, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, presenting Labour Laws to the Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of the USA, Kathleen FitzGibbon and USA Labour Attache, Carolyn Parker, during a courtesy visit to the Ministry. Share 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 Sen...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade and Leke Baiyewu The National Assembly on Monday passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill, raising the total estimates from the proposed N13.08tn to N13,588,027,886,175, an increase of over N500bn. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had on October 8, 2020, laid the money bill before a joint session of the National Assembly. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives Committees on Appropriations had laid a harmonised report in the re...