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The Senate, on Thursday, considered a bill seeking to stop employers in the private and public sectors from engaging employable Nigerian graduates as casual workers. The Prohibition of Casualisation Bill 2020 was sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure. Akinyelure said casualisation of Nigerian graduates in the Nigerian labour market had become a subject of great concern. He said more workers continued ...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African to hold the position. Details later…

First Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. The former Minister of Works passed on Thursday morning in Lagos at the age of 91. He is a  former journalist who became governor of Lagos State in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, and later was Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98). More to come..

Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, on Thursday, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector-General of Police for three months. The minister disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the extension was necessary to give room for the proper selection of ...

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. It said the new deadline was now April 6, 2021. Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, said the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. Pantami conveyed the ...

The Lagos State Government has extended the work-from-home directive to all state public servants on Grade levels 14 and below from Monday, February 1, 2021 to Friday, February 26, 2021. This was disclosed by the Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, via a statement issued on Sunday evening. According to him, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, took the ...

Zenith Bank Chairman Jim Ovia has been sued over the appointment of Ebenezer Onyeagwu as Zenith Bank MD. A civil society group identified as the Transparency Advocacy for Development Initiative (TADI), has sued the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, the Founder/Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Jim Ovia and 4 others over the appointment of Ebenezer Onyeagwu as the ...

Lauretta Onochie, Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buharia, has said every tribe in the country has bad eggs. She also claimed that many critics of the Buhari regime were driven by hate and bitterness and were, therefore, wont to accuse Fulani herdsmen of every heinous act perpetrated by criminals, adding that such commentators were fishing for ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, for giving Fulanis in Oyo State an ultimatum to leave the state. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, revealed this in an interview with the Hausa Service of the BBC. The BBC report quoted Shehu ...

For The Record: Joe Biden’s Inaugural Speech As 46th US President Chief Justice Roberts, Vice-President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice-President Pence. My distinguished guests, my fellow Americans. This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested a new ...