Fresh controversies seem to be surrounding the appointment of a new Board Chairman for the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) in the dying days of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. According to PRNigeria, in a single month (May 2023) several actions were taking including the confirmation of appointment, swearing in and a new law that repealed such an appointment of a chairman from outside the public service. The NDIC board chairman, Dr Abdul Hakeem Mobolaji, was appointed by President Buhari alongside six other board members on January 9, 2023 who sent their names to the Senate on the 22nd of…
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The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) has said that the National Pay Policy is still a work in progress. This is in reaction to a report in the SUN newspapers, saying that the Federal Government has designed a National Pay Policy. According to the Head of Press Unit at NSIWC, Emmanuel Njoku, “the writer situated an interview granted to him by the Chairman of National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, Esq. actually emanated from a Two-Day Training Workshop for Salary Inspectors held on the 4th of April, 2023 for the execution of Phase 2 of the…
By Adeboye Ado, AKURE The Ondo State Government, on Saturday, revealed that the names of slain victims of Owo church attack would be engraved on a wall marble at the ongoing construction of a Memorial Park in honour of the deceased. Mr. Wale Akinterinwa, the State Commissioner for Finance who doubles as the Chairman of the Owo Attack Donation Management Committee, disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a tour of the park with some Catholic Church Bishops. Recall that gunmen had on June 5, 2022, attacked St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo and killed 41 worshippers and injured 81…
Nigeria’s Secret Police are likely to approach the court on Tuesday to obtain an order to keep the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in its custody for as long as his interrogation will last. A source in the DSS confided in SUNDAY PUNCH’s correspondent that the secret police would likely approach the court to obtain an order to detain the suspended CBN boss for an indefinite period to allow for unfettered interrogation. President Bola Tinubu had on Friday suspended Emefiele from office with immediate effect. This was sequel to the ongoing investigation of his office…
Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communication of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has assured that Nigerians in the Diaspora will be carried along in President Bola Tinubu’s administration. He gave the assurance at a Pre-Democracy Day world news conference where he represented President Tinubu on Saturday in Abuja. Nigeria’s Democracy Day is June 12. It is a day set aside to commemorate the restoration of democracy in the country in 1999, the day the military handed over political power to an elected civilian government. May 29 was initially the official democracy day until it was…
***Asks Tinubu to probe INEC, Yakubu By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The leadership of the Labour Party, the most outspoken opposition party in Nigeria, is disturbed by the decision of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to suspend and sack the Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, albeit unconstitutionally without seeking the permission of the National Assembly (NASS), insisting that the action was not in good taste and sounds punitive. In press statement signed by Comrade Obiora Ifoh, National Publicity Secretary of Labour Party and made available to journalists in Abuja on Saturday, Tinubu has no power to sack the CBN…
In line with the increasing demand for bandwidth and high speed internet capabilities, Globacom on Friday announced the simultaneous rollout of its Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution Advanced network, popularly known as 4G-LTE Advanced, in major cities in the country. The company stated that over 4,000 LTE Advanced sites are planned for rollout in major cities across the country in 2023. This is projected to help speed-up economic and commercial activities as well as boost productivity of professionals, students and traders across the country. The Glo LTE Advanced is described as the power of three LTE data networks in one.…
I am an angry Nigerian and those who know me must know why I have to be! As the pioneer Administrative Secretary of the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), one of the major organizers of the famous ‘Occupy Nigeria’ in 2012, yours sincerely can conveniently align his thoughts with a parody in Yoruba which explains the situation Nigeria has found herself in the last 60 years. It is called ‘subu-sere’. Translated literally, it means ‘instability’. Of course, that’s why a Godwin Emefiele could imagine himself being a future president of Nigeria. It also defines the miraculous emergence and imposition of the…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the people of Akinima community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State of its speedy intervention on the damaged and unmotorable road linking the community with Joinkarama. The NDDC Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, gave this assurance on Friday when he led some members of the Commission’s management committee on an inspection tour of the Akinima – Joinkarama road, which has been greatly damaged by erosion. Ogbuku sympathized with the commuters and residents of the area and promised to provide a temporary alternative route while the permanent solution to the…
Thousands of Kogi indigenes under the umbrella of Kogi Collective Interest Group, on Saturday, called on security agencies, especially the Police and the Department of State Services, to launch a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding a letter purpotedly written by the Principal of Barewa College, Zaria, to save the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party in Kogi State, Muritala Yakubu, from an imminent certificate forgery scandal. The indigenes, spread across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state, said the inconsistencies, particularly in the second letter written by the Principal of Barewa College, Alhassan Isyaku, only worsened the…