The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Kogi State chapter, has asked Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, to ensure that February 2022 salary of medical doctors working with the Kogi State Government is paid in full. The NMA made the call through a communiqué jointly signed by its Chairman, Dr Omakoji Simeon Oyiguh; and Secretary, Dr Chimezie Udebuani, and made available to journalist on Tuesday in Lokoja. The association urged the Governor to note that it had been two years of peaceful and harmonious industrial relationship in the medical sector in the state. It therefore advised the governor’s handlers on the issue…
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Worried by the failure of the House of Representatives to commence an investigative public hearing into the rape and death of 14 year old boarding student of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, Miss Keren-Happuch Aondodoo Akphagher, Amnesty International has written to the speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila to remind him and his colleagues of their obligation.Keren-Happuch died on June 22, 2021 after developing sepsis as a result of the infection caused by the condom left inside her by her rapist, which compromised her immunity, spiked her blood sugar, resulting in hyperglycaemia.The letter addressed to the Speaker of the Green Chambers that was…
Ahead of the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the South-south Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has asked the Chairman of the Screening Committee to be diligent and authenticate certificates of all aspirants to avoid future embarrassment. The forum specifically called out one of the aspirants for the position of National Vice Chairman (South-south) Hon. Victor Giadom whose WAEC certificate is been questioned. In a statement released to newsmen Tuesday in Abuja, the Forum’s national coordinator Barrister Preye Wilson, said all efforts to authenticate the WAEC certificate of Hon. Giadom have proved abortive. The statement said: “It was…
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sent congratulatory message to the Governor of Enugu State, Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwanyi, on his 58th birthday.A statement by his special adviser on media Ola Awoniyi quoted lawan thus,”On behalf of myself and my family, I rejoice with my dear friend on this auspicious occasion.”Governor Ugwanyi has over the last seven years provided great leadership in Enugu State as the governor.”He has brought his past experience in the National Assembly as a former member of the House of Representatives to bear in his work in the state.”Governor Ugwanyi can be proud of how…
For jumping the boat from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC) a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Monday, declared the seats of 20 lawmakers from Cross River State vacant.The ruling affected two House of Representatives members and 18 Cross River House of Assembly members Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, had dismissed the defence argument that the PDP (plaintiff) had no locus standi (legal rights) to institute the case. Justice Taiwo ruled that the argument of the lawmakers that there was rancour in the PDP which necessitated their defection to APC was a ploy…
A presidential Aspirant on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Prince Adewale Adebayo has described fuel subsidy as the greatest scam of the century that has continued to put Nigerians under pressure. He mocked the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress for sustaining what they said was a fraudHe spoke Monday at the SDP secretariat in Abuja when he submitted his letter of intent to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the party.According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari himself in 2015 said so when he was still campaigning to be elected. “Remember there is…
The reelected All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Kogi State chapter Honorabke Abdullahi Bello has described the idea of zoning being contemplated in the 2023 election as undemocratic and ungodly. Speaking over the weekend in Abuja at a reception organized in his honor over his reelection as the APC chairman for Kogi State, he said, “In a democracy like ours you allow everybody to Express his or her view. As a matter of fact zoning is undemocratic, zoning is ungodly. Zoning will not give you the chance to have the best man. Speaking against the backdrop that the chairmanship position has…
By Tunde Olusunle While I was a young boy, the military had a lot of fascination for me. As Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo took their turns at the leadership of Nigeria, after various coups and counter putschs, I had this belief that military governance had come to stay for good. I thus aspired to join the institution, make my mark and ascend to the topmost heights of the profession. An opportunity indeed provided itself in 1980, when I was given a place in the 28th regular combatants’ programme. My name was published in the dailies…
***Orders GMD To Produce Heads Of Agencies, Accounting Officers The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has for the umpteenth time summoned the 17 subsidiaries of the defunct Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), now NNPC Limited to appear before it to answer questions on the audit queries issued by the Auditor General for the Federation over the operation of their finances between 2014 and 2019 respectfully The summon which was personally signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Busayo Oluwole Oke (PDP -Osun) which was dated 16th March, 2022 was addressed to the Group Managing Director of the…
By Ehichioya Ezomon The surprise spat between Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki typifies a fight between two elephants that makes the grass to suffer unduly.Both governors, who’ve similar character traits, and boast of conquering and slaying political heavyweights and “godfathers” in their respective states, can fight, and are really fighting dirty.For the record, Wike, as Minister of State for Education, used his relationship with then President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patient Jonathan, to disrupt the flow of the administration of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in Rivers, simply for two reasons.One, to “fight the…