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    The Oyo State Government has rallied the Nigeria Labour Congress to discuss the issue of salary deductions exhaustively, before embarking on any form of protest.   In a statement issued by the Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, the Oyo State Government said only three months and not six months deductions are owed workers.   The statement added that every State in the federation owes workers salary deductions and the three months owed by Oyo State is the least.    According to the Commissioner, the NLC had shown over the years that they are in support of the present administration because of good governance, but asked them to reflect on the disposition of government to workers' welfare.    While the July salaries have been paid in Oyo State, not less than 20 states including Ondo, Plateau, Benue and Bayelsa are owing several months of salaries in arrears, while several more including neighboring states are owing ...

  By Festus Adedayo  Africa slumped again last week into the hands of its traditional enemies. The continent has not been the same since midnight of January 13, 1963. On this day, a band of military putschists, led by Etienne Gnasingbe Eyadema and Emmanuel Bodjolle, shot and killed the civilian president of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio and his wife. Togo then became the first of such violent takeover of men in Khaki in the French and British colonies of Africa, thus breaking the symbolic hymen of the innocence of Africa. The wave of democratization in those erstwhile colonies in the 1990s and 2000s had however made many believe that coups d’etat had become unfashionable and otiose. However, Africa’s turbulent Sahel region, since 2020, has been confronted with a rampaging jihadist insurgency that birthed and nurtured coups in Mali and Burkina Faso. Its latest rupture is Niger. Right now, President Mohamed Bazoum is being confined to his residence by his presidential guard, commanded ...

                          Godswill Akpabio The Senate has said that it will start the screening of the 28 ministerial nominees proposed by President Bola Tinubu on Monday. The spokesperson of the Senate, Sen. Adeyemi Adaramodu made this known while speaking with journalists after the list of the nominees was read in the upper chamber. Adaramodu also revealed that though the Senate wasn’t supposed to sit on Mondays, but due to the importance attached to the national assignment, all rules have been suspended for them to commence the exercise next Monday. He said, the Senate is going to examine the character, personality, the experiences, the background of every nominee, and at the end of it, Nigerians will not be disappointed. According to the report, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio read the list as forwarded to the chamber by the presidency during plenary. The Chief of Staff to the president Femi Gbajabiamila, delive...

The Chief of Staff to the President and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has delivered the letter containing President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list to the Senate. The names were read by the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, at the plenary on Thursday. The list, according to Akpabio, was dated July 27, 2023 and titled, ‘Request For Confirmation Of Ministerial-Nominees. He thereafter read the ministerial list with the following 28 nominees: 1. Abubakar Momoh 2. Amb, Yusuf Tukar 3. Ahmad Dangiwa 4. Hannatu Musawa 5. Uche Nnaji 6. Beta Edu 7. Doris Uzoka 8. Dave Umahi 9. Nyesome Wike 10. Muhammadu Badaru 11. Nasir El-Rufai 12. Ekprikpe Ekpo 13. Nkiru Onyechiocha 14. Bumi Tunji Ojo 15. Stella Okotete 16. Uju Kennedy 17. Belo Muhammadu Gunyo 18. Dele Alake 19. Lateef Fagbemi 20. Muhammad Idris 21. Olawale Edu 22. Waheed Adebayo Adelabu 23. Emman Suleman Ibrahim 24. Prof Ali Pate 25. Prof Joseph Utse 26. Abubakar Kyari 27. John Enoh 28. Sani Abubakar Danl...

  Ninety - nine new nursing graduates of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, were this morning admitted through induction into the nursing profession, by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN). Oaths were administered on the newly inducted nurses by Registrar of NMCN, Dr. Faruk Umar Abubakar, who officially announced increase in admission quota of LAUTECH for Bachelor of Nursing Science, from 75 to 150. He admitted that the University has been a dependable ally in the training of Nursing in Nigeria, admonishing Management of the Institution not to go down on quality of training. Earlier in his address at the ceremony, Acting Vice-Chancellor of LAUTECH, Professor Razaq Olatunde Rom Kalilu, had identified the commitment of Visitor to the University and Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, along with that of the Governing Council as the driving voice. In thanking the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Kalilu said the University has the c...

  Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde has announced Mrs Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo, a Professor at the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ibadan, as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) designate. The announcement was contained in a letter signed by the state governor. Professor Adeyemo, who served as the Head of the Oyo State COVID-19 Decontamination and Containment team of the Oyo State COVID-19 Taskforce, was born on July 17, 1970. She bagged the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), Master’s degree in Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) and Ph.D. Veterinary Public Health, in 1994, 1998 and 2005 respectively from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Adeyemo, who is a COMSTECH Distinguished scholar and the Pioneer Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships) at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan between 2017 and 2021, joined the services of the university in March 1999 as Lecturer Grade II in the Departm...

  By Festus Adedayo  Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political party panegyrists and their hirelings, in response to the harrowing pains that accompanied the policies, lapped up the time-worn cliché of “Rome was not built in a day” as requests for national patience. Why not allow a window into the counterpoise of that cliché, to wit that Rome was not destroyed in a day? With my ey...