Mr Mike Omogbehin, immediate past House of Representatives member (Okitipupa/Irele constituency), has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). Omogbehin, also a member of Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu’s Campaign Council in the Oct. 10 governorship election in the state, announced his defection in a statement issued on Saturday in Okitipupa. He said that he would support the state Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi, who is the governorship candidate of the ZLP in the coming poll. Omogbehin stated that his support for Ajayi was based on the Southern Ondo Agenda for power to return to the southern senatorial…
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Mr George Edem has assumed duty as the new commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command. Edem’s assumption of office was announced in a statement on Saturday by Mr Efosa Ogbebor, NSCDC Edo Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO). He said the new Edo commandant, who hails from Akwa Ibom, asummed office on Friday and immediately had an interactive session with personnel of the command where he solicited for their support. Ogbebor also said that Edem also called on the general public to support the corps in the fight against criminals and any act of criminality in the…
Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, says Nigerian states must continue to exist as a united and formidable country. Hamzat said this during the special Jumat service held to commemorate the 60th Nigeria Independence celebration at the Lagos State Secretariat Community Central Mosque, Alausa, Ikeja. The deputy governor, in a statement signed by Mrs Folashade Adebayo, Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday, admonished Nigerians to embrace the spirit of love and unity in all their human interactions. He said that Nigeria could not afford the cost of war and segregation. According to him, the younger…
The Rivers Executive Council has approved the reopening of schools in the state with effect from Oct. 5, 2020. This was made known in a statement on Saturday by Paulinus Nsirim, Commissioner for Information and Communications. He said that the Council took the decision at an emergency session chaired by Gov. Nyesom Wike at Government House, Port Harcourt. According to him, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kaniye Ebeku, announced the date for reopening of schools at the end of the meeting. He quoted Ebeku as saying that all Secondary Schools, Vocational Schools, Universities and other Tertiary Institutions were affected by…
The United Nations Children Endowment Fund (UNICEF), has trained 40 frontline health workers in Jigawa on COVID-19 case management. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training, conducted between Sept. 23 and Sept. 25, was organised in collaboration with Jigawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (JSPHCDA), Federal Ministry of Health and Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in Dutse. Saudat Abdullahi, Health Specialist, UNICEF Field Office Kano, said on Saturday in Dutse that the trainees were drawn from Federal Tertiary Hospitals and Institutions (FTHIs) supporting COVID-19 outbreak response in the state. Abdullahi said the training was part of responses…
The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated the first Infectious Disease Centre (IDC), in the Federal Capital Territory, and handed it over to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH). Speaking at the inauguration of the 40-bed centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said that the centre would improve Nigeria’s capacity to respond to all infectious diseases. “With laboratory testing and case management in one location, there is a much shorter time between sample collection and infection confirmation. ”This will ensures early initiation of treatment and thus mitigate mortality during infectious disease outbreaks. “I am very…
Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation ( HOCSF) has advised civil servants from level 12 and above, essential duty officers to be at work on Monday. Yemi-Esan, who gave the advice in a circular issued on Friday in Abuja, said government was engaging with the union officials over the planned industrial action.The circular reads in part; “Sequel to the Labour Unions for workers to embark on industrial action from Monday Sept. 28.“The HOCSF wishes to inform all public servants that the Federal Government team is currently engaging with the labour unions to resolving all contentious…
Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the National Identification Number(NIN) is now compulsory for processing and issuance of the driver’s licence. Oyeyemi, who made this known at a workshop organised for sector heads of the driver’s licence on Friday in Abuja, said the step was to curb corruption. He lamented that there had been a lot of problems surrounding the production of the driver’s licence. Oyeyemi said that there was need to improve on the driver’s licence production, adding that the FRSC management was committed to bringing to bear the full weight of the commission’s…
Dr Andy Ilabor, the Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa on SDGs, on Friday stressed the importance of data collection and evaluation in realising the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ilabor underscored the need for accurate data collection and analysis at an event to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the SDGs in Asaba, the Delta capital. He recalled that on Sept. 25, 2015 at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), world leaders across the world including Nigeria, adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals. “The 2030 agenda for sustainable development envisions a…
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), to exercise caution on its planned industrial action over increase in price of petroleum products and electricity tariff. The 36 governors made the call in a communique issued on Friday in Abuja by the forum’s Vice Chairman and Governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, after its 18th emergency teleconference meeting held on Friday. The governors according to him, insisted that subsidy in the petroleum sector was promoting corruption in petroleum pricing and distribution, as well as loss of jobs and revenues to…