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Group advocates youth inclusiveness in governance
The Youth Governance for Change Forum (YOGOC) has called on government at all levels to include youths in the governance of the country for national development.
U.K. to open first LGBT+ retirement home as market grows
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China’s census could point to a looming demographic slide
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NSE resumes Easter holidays with N78 billion loss
The Nigerian stock market resumed after the Easter public holidays on Tuesday with a loss of 0.39 per cent due to persistent bearish trend.
Pastor Ighodalo faults pastors opposed to coronavirus vaccines
Senior Pastor of Trinity Church, Ituah Ighodalo, has cautioned pastors against scaremongering and misinforming their congregation about the COVID-19 vaccines.
80,000 to benefit from conditional cash transfer in Sokoto
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2023: Only youth creativity will reset the nation – Kogi commissioner
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March salary: Kano revert to N18,000 minimum wage for workers
Due to the drop in federal allocation, the Kano State Government said it is reverting to the N18,000 old wage to pay it workers for the month of March.
Delta governor advocates progressive taxation to capture rich evaders
The Governor of Delta State, Mr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has advocated that progressive taxation should be used to bring large percentage of tax evaders into the tax net.
Sachet economy: Is it a problem, a solution, or both?
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Group petitions Lagos Assembly over high cost of coronavirus test
A coalition has petitioned the Lagos State House of Assembly on the high cost of (COVID-19 tests in private laboratories in Lagos State.
Katsina SSG did not berate FRSC – spokesman
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has enjoined members of the public to disregard “a fabricated and fake statement” credited to the Secretary to the Government of Katsina State, Mustapha Inuwa, in a publication by a national daily recently.
WCQ: Norway players make Qatar protest
Norway’s soccer players marked the start of their quest to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by protesting against the gulf state’s alleged treatment of workers before kick off in their opening match against Gibraltar on Wednesday.
Oyo rolls out coronavirus vaccination programme
The Oyo State Government on Wednesday joined other states across Nigeria to rollout the COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
Bill limiting tenure of EFCC acting chairman to six months, own 0.05% of recovered...
A bill seeking to limit the tenure of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to only 6 months have passed for second reading at the House of Representatives.
Oyo governor pledges to deliver Ibadan circular road before May 2023
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has said that his administration will complete the 32-kilometre stretch, First Phase of Ibadan Circular Road, before the end of his tenure on May 28, 2023.
Food security: Ebonyi governor urged to tackle challenges facing smallholder women farmers
Representatives of Ebonyi State Public Financing for Agriculture, PFA Budget Committee, Participatory Development Alternatives (PDA), and the Small-Scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria, SWOFON, weekend called on Ebonyi State Government to immediately address the challenges facing smallholder Women farmers in the 2022 budgetary allocation or through a supplementary budget in 2021.
Minister: Why Kogi state is yet to get coronavirus vaccine
Minister of State for Health, Dr. Adeleke Olorunnibe Mamora, who fielded questions from newsmen at the weekend, shortly after inaugurating capital projects at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Asaba, Delta State, said the FG will not force the covid19 vaccine on anyone.
Minister: We will not force any state to take coronavirus vaccine
Following the launch of COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria, the Federal Government yesterday said it would not force any state to take the Astra Zeneca Vaccine.
Food safety expert calls on Lagos government to intervene over N8.5 million debt
HACCP Academy Nigeria (HAN), a foremost food safety institution based in Lagos, has asked the Lagos State government to intervene on the debt of N8.5million owed by its Ministry of Health being the amount for the two months HACCP training of 17 staff of the ministry at the Academy in September 2020.
2023: PDP panel wants zoning scrapped despite clamour for power shift
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may discard zoning as a criterion for picking its presidential candidate for the 2023 election cycle, if the party hierarchy ratifies the recommendation of a committee it set up to investigate its loss in the 2019 general election.
PIB: Niger Delta monarch demands 25% equity shareholding for host communities
Former National Chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HM Charles Ayemi-Botu, has advocated appropriation of not less than 25 per cent equity shareholding in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, for host communities in Niger–Delta to alleviate their troubles.
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