NYSC DG urges corps members to embrace vocational skills

The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed has advised serving corps members to acquire vocational skills through the scheme’s skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development, SAED, programme. The DG made the admonition in his address to corps members at the Katsina State orientation camp as well as the Borno State orientation camp on Sunday. He said the SAED in-camp training for corps members was designed to expose them to entrepreneurship...

Intersociety demands the removal of Anambra CP Aderemi Adeoy

Claims  CP lacks “professional emptiness in matters of skillful, detailed criminal investigations.” The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has demanded the immediate redeployment or removal of the new commissioner of police, CP, in Anambra State, Aderemi Adeoye. The West African Pilot earlier reported that the new CP, last Wednesday, charged criminals in the State to leave immediately or turn a leaf as the Anambra State Police Command is left with...

Philanthropist donates corpers’ lodge to NYSC in Akwa Ibom

A philanthropist in Akwa Ibom State, Dr Jeremiah Udoh, has donated a storey building of 22 self-contained apartments and two single rooms to serve as lodge for corps members serving at Obot Akara Local Government Area, LGA, in the State. The State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mrs Chinyere Ekwe, disclosed this during the official swearing-in of 2023 Batch B Stream 1 corps members at the NYSC orientation camp, Ikot Itie Udung...

Fuel Subsidy Removal: Reps Grants Tinubu’s N500bn Request for Palliatives

Due to pains occasioned by subsidy removal on Nigerians, the House of Representatives has granted the request of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for an amendment to the 2022 appropriation act to allow the government take five hundred billion naira for palliatives to cushion the effects of the policy. The House approved the President’s request after deliberation by members who called for proper utilization of the funds for the purpose intended. Leader of the House, Julius...

President Tinubu calls for an end to coup d’etats in Africa

President Bola Tinubu has implored African leaders to respect democracy and the rule of law and ensure political stability. President Tinubu made the call in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday at a high-level event organised by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, on the margins of the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union, AU, the Regional Economic Communities, RECs, the Regional Mechanisms, RMs, and the AU member States. The President left Abuja for Kenya...

Police Insurance Scheme: IGP to pay benefits to late officers’ next of kin

Flags off distribution of over N535m to 68 beneficiaries The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun has flagged off the distribution of cheques to cover Insurance benefits to deceased officers next-of-kin who paid the supreme price and those who have suffered permanent deformities in the course of discharging their duties. The total sum of cheques presented to 68 families of deceased officers and those injured or rendered disabled in the line of duty...

Federal Govt Faults Creation of Labour Ministries, Departments By Some states

The Federal Government has faulted the creation of Labour ministries and departments by some states government and implementing parallel guidelines and policies to those developed at the federal level. Miss Kachallom Daju, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, made the criticism while declaring open the 2023 session of the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) holding in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Miss Daju said the practice is counter-productive, and contrary to Section 34 of...

Lagos govt. sets to partner CIBN on youth capacity building

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State has said that the state government will partner the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) to build youth capacity through the Human Development Capital Fund initiative of the institute. Sanwo-Olu stated this during a courtesy visit to him by the Governing Council of the CIBN, led by the President and Chairman of the Council, Ken Opara, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Thursday. The governor said his administration through...

DSS finally charged detained CBN Governor, Emefiele to court

…Assures Nigerians of professionalism, justice, fairness The Department of State Services (DSS), has finally charged the detained Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, to court. Dr. Peter Afunaya, the DSS Spokesperson in a statement, on Thursday evening said that the action was in compliance with the court Order of Thursday, 13th July, 2023. He said, “The public may recall that the Service had, in 2022, applied for a Court Order to detain him...

Digitalisation of MSMEs can increase Nigeria’s GDP by $53bn, says NITDA DG

The Director General (DG) and the Chief Executive Officer of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Engr. Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi has stressed the need to encourage the nation’s Micr- Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), to digitise their services using technology as a source of inspiration to come up with new ways of doing business. According to Abdullahi, digitization of MSMEs can increase Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $53 billion. He stated this while...

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