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Share Former Minister of State for Education and one-time national president of Nigerian Association of Authors, Professor Jerry Agada is dead. Agada died at the age of 68. A source told our correspondent that Agada who is chairman, Benue State Civil Service Commission died at Federal Medical Hospital, Makurdi in the early hours of Tuesday. The source added that he had been hospitalized for the past one week before he died around 08:00 am Tuesday. The family is yet to issue any statement but a close family source confirmed his death. The state Information Commissioner and spokesperson for the...

Share THE Jigawa State and Local Government Contributory Pension Scheme has commenced payment of terminal benefit worth N1.084 billion to 530 living and dead pensioners in the state. This was disclosed by the executive secretary to the pension board, Alhaji Hashim Ahmed Fagam while flagging-up of the payment in the headquarter of the pension board in Dutse, the state capital. Fagam explained that the payment includes gratuity, death benefit, death pension balance and refund of eight percent contribution. According to him “the 530 workers were the staff of state, local government and local e...

Share Federal Government on Monday vowed to deal with trespassers on the land belonging to the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife in Osun State. The government also expressed its readiness to retrieve the land from encroachers.  Speaking at a press conference at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the vice-chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, stated that he had received marching orders from the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to secure OAU’s land. He said, “that the Federal Government is not only prepared but ready to secure the university land. All illegal and ...

Share Following the dissolution of the executive committees across the states and zones in the country by the National Executive Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Lagos State chapter of APC has sworn in caretaker committee members to direct the affairs of the party in the state. The swearing-in, according to the party spokesman in Lagos State, Seye Oladejo, is in conformity with the directive of the national caretaker committee. The swearing-in ceremony was witnessed by the state caretaker chairman, Tunde Balogun, who was inaugurated earlier and conducted by a legal p...

Share The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has directed troops to always remain in war mode across their area of operations in the Northwest. He particularly charged military troops on Operation Sahel Sanity and Operation Hadarin Daji to always remain in war mode and at red alert with a view to stopping any banditry and other criminal activities in their areas of operations. Buratai, who was on operational visit to Nigerian Army Special Super Camp 4 Faskari in Katsina State on Monday, gave the order to both sets of troops saying that would maintain the confi...