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PTAD Moves to Start Payment of 20 Months Arrears for Pensioners
2May By Dwelleth MorountodunNo Comments
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PTAD Moves to Start Payment of 20 Months Arrears for Pensioners

The Executive Secretary (ES) of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Dr. Chioma Ejikeme, in this interview with journalists on Friday 30, April, 2021 raised the hope of government’s retirees whose pensions have raised concern in recent times. She expressed hope that the payment will commence immediately.Excerpts: QTN: Kindly explain in clear terms those that should expect the new payment? ANS: All the pensioners under the defined pension scheme. There is no exception. I repeat all our pensioners under the defined pension scheme. QTN: Is there specific date that the payment will commence? ANS: Like as I told you, this particular consequential adjustment is supposed to take effect from April of 2019 and we are going to start paying from the month of May which...
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FG Debunks Stoppage of Remuneration for Interns in Civil Service
26Apr By Seun AdamsNo Comments
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FG Debunks Stoppage of Remuneration for Interns in Civil Service

The Federal Government through the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation (OHCSF) has debunked the insinuation making the rounds that it has stopped the reimbursement of students or graduates undergoing internship programmes in the service.The Director of Public Affairs at OHCSF, Mr. AbdulGaniyu Aminu, in a statement made available to the media over the weekend, said: "The attention of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has been drawn to publications making the rounds on social media platforms with regard to the establishment circular on an internship programme in civil service."He said it has therefore become imperative to make the corrective clarifications and put the record straight for every stakeholder. According to him, the circular does not in...
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Push for Digital Nigeria: Buhari Commissions More Projects Nationwide
24Apr By Dwelleth MorountodunNo Comments
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Push for Digital Nigeria: Buhari Commissions More Projects Nationwide

Towards attaining an all-inclusive digital Nigeria, the Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) an agency of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy on Friday commissioned batch nine of 7 digital economy projects across the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ibrahim Pantami while commissioning the projects yesterday in the ultra-modern conference centre of NCC building in Abuja on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari said that these projects which cut across several geopolitical zones were executed by the parastatals as part of the implementation of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy for a Digital Nigeria. This he added is in line with the economic development road map of Nigeria and the administr...
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Electricity Challenge: Onu Charts Developmental Pathway Through Nuclear Energy Technology
23Apr By Dwelleth MorountodunNo Comments
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Electricity Challenge: Onu Charts Developmental Pathway Through Nuclear Energy Technology

Onu made the call, when he declared open the Nigeria Energy Calculator 2050 (NECAL2050) stakeholders’ engagement, in Abuja on Thursday. The Minister who is a Chemical Engineer and an avowed advocate of the deployment of Science Technology and Innovation (STI) for Nigeria’s accelerated growth, said if the country peacefully maximises nuclear energy, it would help build a stable power supply base and would benefit many socio-economic areas such as medicine, agriculture, education, manufacturing and overall national economic growth. The Nigeria Energy calculator 2050, is an energy planning model which will offer choices in energy development to be examined alongside its environmental consequences. On safety concerns on the use of nuclear energy, the Minister tasked the active partic...
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FG Defends Pantami, Says He Has Apologised for Utterances in 2000
23Apr By Seun AdamsNo Comments
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FG Defends Pantami, Says He Has Apologised for Utterances in 2000

The Federal Government yesterday broke its silence over the raging storm that has found the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy come under intense verbal attack especially from both the traditional and social media over some of his religious views and utterances that he made several years ago. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, in a statement made available to the media on Wednesday while exonerating the minister blamed the pull him syndrome and detractors as responsible for the atmosphere that has become heated in the last one month. Shehu, said: “The Minister has, rightly, apologized for what he said in the early 2000s. The views were absolutely unacceptable then, and would be equally unacceptable today, were...
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Abdullahi Advocates Market Driven Creativity, Innovation for Nigeria’s Prosperity
22Apr By Dwelleth MorountodunNo Comments
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Abdullahi Advocates Market Driven Creativity, Innovation for Nigeria’s Prosperity

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, has reiterated that Nigeria will make speedy progress and prosperity if stakeholders reinvent innovativeness and creativity in its way of life.The DG spoke at the celebration of NITDA 20th Anniversary and World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) on Wednesday in Abuja.He acknowledged that the WCID is recognised by the United Nations and designated to celebrate creativity and innovation and raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation in problem-solving to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. According to him, UN recognises the importance of creativity and innovation to humanity, hence designated the 21st of April as the World Creat...
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NCC Arrests Suspects over Fraudulently-registered SIM Cards
22Apr By Seun AdamsNo Comments
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NCC Arrests Suspects over Fraudulently-registered SIM Cards

 As part of its routine enforcement activities to sanitise the telecommunications industry of criminal elements, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has arrested five suspected persons for allegedly engaging in fraudulently registering and selling Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards.  The Director of Public Affairs at the Commission, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, told journalists that the hitch-free operation was carried out by a joint team from the Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Department of the Commission, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday in the Wuse area of Abuja.  The arrested suspects were subsequently handed over to the NSCDC Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Comman...
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Senate Approves $2.6bn Loan Nequest to Finance Priority Projects
22Apr By Skye ZacharyNo Comments
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Senate Approves $2.6bn Loan Nequest to Finance Priority Projects

The Senate, on Wednesday, approved the sum of $2.6  billion out of the $5.5 billion external borrowing request sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2020. The approval came after the Upper Chamber considered a report by the committee on local and foreign debts during plenary. The approved sum, according to the Chairman of the Local and Foreign Debt Committee, Clifford Ordia, would see €995 million euros going to finance priority projects of the federal government, while $1.5 billion would be disbursed to the thirty-six state governments to finance critical projects.  Out of the total sum approved, $1.5 billion is to be sourced from the World Bank; €671 million euros from the Export-Import Bank of Brazil; and another €324 million euros from the Deutsche B...
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Perm Sec Advises African Youths against Drug Abuse
20Apr By Seun AdamsNo Comments
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Perm Sec Advises African Youths against Drug Abuse

The Permanent Secretary, Service Policy and Strategy Office, Dr. Emmanuel Meribole has called on African youths to help rid the continent of drug abuse so as to ensure the security of the continent. Dr. Meribole made the call when he was conferred with the Pan African Leadership Prize of Excellence by Pan African Students Movement in his office in Abuja on Monday 19th April 2021. He urged knowledgeable youths to lead the fight against drug abuse and addiction as majority of drug addicts are lettered people. According to him, the rampant abuse of unwholesome drugs by youths was majorly responsible for the insecurity prevalent on the continent. He commended the movement for its exchange programmes which he said would help in harnessing their creativity, ideas and talents for the...
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Motorists, Commuters Lament Gridlocks on Gwagwalada-Lokoja Expressway
14Apr By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments
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Motorists, Commuters Lament Gridlocks on Gwagwalada-Lokoja Expressway

Motorists and commuters plying Gwagwalada-Lokoja Expressway have lamented the constant gridlock due to the ongoing construction and parking of articulate vehicles on the road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that motorists heading toward Lokoja and those from Zuba spend several hours in the gridlock from Gwagwalada Bridge to Kuje junction following the narrowing of the road. NAN observed that the incessant breakdown of heavy-duty vehicles and parking on the narrow road prevents smooth driving causing heavy traffic for several hours on the road. However, some motorists and commuters, who spoke with NAN in separate interviews, urged the law enforcement agents to be strict in arresting drivers fond of violating traffic rules on the road. A truck driver, Salisu Mohammed, ...
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Senate Suspends Plenary over Death of Assembly Members
13Apr By Seun AdamsNo Comments
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Senate Suspends Plenary over Death of Assembly Members

The Senate, on Tuesday, upon resumption from its two weeks recess, adjourned plenary till Wednesday (tomorrow) over the recent death of two members of the National Assembly.  This was just as the upper chamber held a minute silence in honour of both lawmakers who are members of the House of Representatives.  The decision to suspend plenary was carried out in line with the tradition of the National Assembly, following a motion moved by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, and seconded by the Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe.  Moving the motion, the Senate Leader said, “this Distinguished chamber and, to our distinguished colleagues, the passing of two members of the National Assembly by names of Mr. Haruna Maitala, who until his demise represented Bassa/Jos North ...
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President Buhari reappoints Prof. Ekele as CMD UATH
13Apr By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments
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President Buhari reappoints Prof. Ekele as CMD UATH

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reappointment of Prof. Bissallah Ahmed Ekele, as the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada, Abuja. A statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, revealed that the appointment of Prof. Ekele would be valid for another term buy soma no prescription online of four years after a selfless service in his first tenure in office. While congratulating him on his reappointment, Buhari urged Ekele to use the responsibility given to him to continue with the development of the hospital and health sector in the country. “Prof. Ekele officially took over from the Acting CMD, Dr A.S. Haruna, on July 3, 2017, and has performed creditably well in infrastructural developm...
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Alleged Plot to Extend CECPC Tenure Not Discussed By Us- APC States Chairmen
5Apr By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments
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Alleged Plot to Extend CECPC Tenure Not Discussed By Us- APC States Chairmen

The Forum of State Committee Chairmen of the All progressives Congress (APC) has said that a news report in a section of the media to the effect that the recent meeting of states’ caretaker chairmen of the party rejected a plot to extend the tenure of the Party's Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) is fake and such a plot only exists in the imaginations of the authors and their sponsors.In a statement signed by Ali Buka-Dalori, the Borno State Caretaker Committee Chairman who doubles as the Chairman of the Forum, said such a tenure elongation plot did not come up for discussion at all let alone deliberate on it.“Our meeting deliberated on and unanimously agreed on the need for an extension of the ongoing membership registration, revalidation and update exerci...
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Alleged Plot to Extend CECPC Tenure Not Discussed By Us- States Chairmen
5Apr By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments
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Alleged Plot to Extend CECPC Tenure Not Discussed By Us- States Chairmen

The Forum of State Committee Chairmen of the All progressives Congress (APC) has said that a news report in a section of the media to the effect that the recent meeting of states’ caretaker chairmen of the party rejected a plot to extend the tenure of the Party's Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) is fake and such a plot only exists in the imaginations of the authors and their sponsors. (more…)
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Easter: Cleric urges Christians to leave above fear
4Apr By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments
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Easter: Cleric urges Christians to leave above fear

Rev. Dr. Istifanus Koce, of Evangelical Church winning All (ECWA) Action Area 2 in Kuje, has called on Christians in the country to leave above their fears and allow Christ to take control for devine fulfilment with God. Koce, who made the call on Sunday in Kuje, during his Easter sermon called on Christians to emulate the godly characteristic of Jesus Christ while on earth for eternal life. According to him, Christ allowed himself to be persecuted, mocked and crucified on the cross so that the scriptures could be fulfilled to save mankind. While admonishing Christians to emulate Jesus Christ and imbibe the virtues of love and forgiveness, he particularly enjoined the congregation to give willingly for the progress and development of the church. The cleric read the book of Joh...
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