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465,200 PVCs yet to be collected by Delta, Taraba residents
Residents in Delta and Taraba States are yet to collect more than 465, 200 Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. According to a report by The Sun, the commission said that as at Monday, 330,200 PVCs were yet to be collected by their…
Read More »Group to transform women’s lives in Africa with SAP People Connect 365
Women At Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a non-profit that combats sexual violence, rape and human trafficking of girls and women across Nigeria, has gone live with the SAP® People Connect 365 mobile service from the SAP Digital Interconnect group, SAP SE announced on Tuesday. Using automated keywords, templates and workflows…
Read More »Navy seizes N46m worth of contraband rice
3039 bags of contraband foreign rice worth about N46 million have been seized by men of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory, Calabar in Bakassi Local Government of Cross River State. Quoting the Commander of NNS Victory, Commodore Julius Nwagu, The Nation reported that, the seizure is the largest so…
Read More »Court upturns suspension of 5 Imo lawmakers
The indefinite suspension slammed on five Imo lawmakers by the leadership of the state House of Assembly last June have been upturned by an Owerri High Court 2. Justice Goody Anunihu on Monday quashed the indefinite suspension and also, awarded a cost of N8 million against the state Assembly. Five…
Read More »300,000 voters removed from INEC register
Over 300,000 names have been removed from the voters register, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. This is coming as the nation prepares for the generation elections come February, 2019. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he received a delegation of ECOWAS Pre-Election Fact Finding Mission,…
Read More »Minimum Wage: Labour reaches consensus, suspends nationwide strike
Organised Labour has shelved its planned nationwide strike after reaching a consensus over a new minimum wage. The strike was scheduled to start on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Labour leaders, government representatives and organised private sector spent many hours on Monday to reach a consensus on…
Read More »Lagos 2019: Sanwo-Olu picks as Hamzat as running mate
Ahead of the 2019 governorship election coming up next year, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC) in Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has picked Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as his running mate. The Chairman of the All Progressives Party in Lagos, Alhaji Tunde Balogun made the announcement at the…
Read More »Lagos INEC fixes Nov 6 for the display of registered voters
All 8,465 Polling Units in Lagos state will display names of registered voters in the state between November 6 and 12, 2018, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Lagos State has said. The exercise according to spokesman of INEC in Lagos, Femi Akinbiyi in a statement, will take place between…
Read More »ASUU down tools
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared an indefinite strike to press home the implementation of their demands. The Sun reports that, the decision to go on the industrial action was taken on Sunday night by the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of ASUU held at Federal University of…
Read More »TRCN to disqualify teachers who aid exam malpractice
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) had said any teacher found culpable in examination malpractice would have his teaching licence cancelled. The council said in a statement on Friday that cheating in exams is a breach of the code of ethics for the teaching profession and the TRCN Cap…
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