The Nigeria Police says it has arrested the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa State, Mr Hudu Yunusa-Ari. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi announced this in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja. “The Nigeria Police Force hereby confirms the arrest of Barr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC). […]
The Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association (LERSA) has appealed to the Lagos State Government to promptly complete the major roads projects along Lekki-Epe axis. Olorogun Emadoye, the outgoing president of LERSA, gave the advice during the inauguration of the new Executive Council of the association on Monday in Lagos. Emadoye acknowledged and commended efforts […]
Workers’ Day, May 1st every year all over the world, necessary calls for an evaluation of work, workers and working conditions all around the world. This is because work is one indispensable resource by which God made man and by which man sustains the world. We are told that after all the work, God saw […]
Rwanda’s Government is set to digitise selected genocide memorial sites in the country as part of the efforts to preserve the history of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. It is also to ease visitors’ access to memorials, an official said on Friday. Jean Damascene Bizimana, Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, made the […]
By Our Correspondent in Abeokuta The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to increase the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS). NARD gave the deadline in a communique issued at the end of its extraordinary meeting, held on Saturday in Abeokuta. The NewsZenith reports that NARD President, Secretary-General […]
Diaspora communities are the greatest off-shore assets useful to achieve sustainable development in their countries of origin. Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Chikoti, made this remark at the second edition of the Global African Diaspora Symposium (GADS), in Abuja. He said GADS ”is geared towards creating right framework […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled to hold between May 3 and May 7. The postponement is contained in a statement issued by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Muhammed. Muhammed stated that the incoming administration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu will determine […]
By Our Correspondent in Abeokuta Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Friday, swore in four new Permanent Secretaries, with a charge to apply themselves to the agenda of the government. Abiodun said he appointed the new bureaucrats from a pool of erudite members of different cadres in state public service. According to him, the […]
Authorities from Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness, on Friday, said they vaccinated 370,000 children aged seven years and below, against poliovirus type 2 (cVOPV2). Christopher Nyanga, the ministry spokesperson, said the vaccination campaigns ran from Feb. 23 to April 2 in all districts across the southern African country. “Health officials detected the cVOPV2 in […]
Sri Lanka’s inflation, measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), dropped to 35.3 per cent in April, data showed on Friday. In March, CCPI-based inflation was 50.3 per cent, the Department of Census and Statistics said in a press release. The year-on-year inflation of the food group dropped to 30.6 per cent in April […]