Tag: NEC
Lai Mohammed’s rejection of #EndSARS report, utter display of executive rascality – Falana
Nov. 25, 2021 Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said with the rejection of the #EndSARS report by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed by not waiting “for the reaction of the states,” the Minister has overruled the President of the Republic. In a statement on Wednesday ...FG to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine roll-out to reach 50% of targeted population – NPHCDA
Nov. 19, 2021 The Executive Director/CEO of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has disclosed that Nigeria has received over 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, African Union, other countries which he said was sufficient to ramp up vaccination for about 50 per cent of the targeted population. ...Kaduna NUT directs teachers not to participate in govt. planned competency test
Nov. 18, 2021 The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed its members in Kaduna State not to participate in the competency test being organised by the state government. The Deputy National President of the union, Mr. Kelvin Nwankwo, gave the directive in Kaduna on Wednesday, during a meeting ...ASUU Issues a 3-Week Ultimatum To FG Over Non-Implementation of Agreement
Nov. 15, 2021 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued Federal Government a three-week ultimatum to address all issues in the December 2020 Agreement. Channels television reports that the ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this on Monday while addressing reporters in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He warned that the union might be ...Sustainable hygiene: Additional 33 LGAs now Open Defecation Free, 36 States launch End Open Defecation campaign – Osinbajo
Nov. 12, 2021 Even as the Buhari administration remains committed to the delivery of sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to all Nigerians, effective collaboration among all levels of government and the private sector will ensure the country achieves its goal to end open defecation by 2025, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. In a statement ...#ENDSARS: FG receives final reports of Judicial Panel from 11 states
Oct. 20, 2021 The Federal Government says 11 out of 28 states have submitted their final reports of Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate cases of brutality and human rights violations perpetrated by operatives of the Nigerian Police Force and the dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji ...#ENDSARS memorial: One year later FG still demands apology from AI, CNN, others for misleading the world that there was a massacre
Oct. 20, 2021 … The only ‘massacre’ recorded was on the social media The Federal government has restated its position on the Lekki toll gate incident of Oct. 20th 2020. The minister of information and culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed disclosed this on Wednesday at news briefing to commemorate one year of the #ENDSARS Lekki toll ...#ENDSARS: NEC Appeals To Organisers To Shelve Planned Protest
October 15, 2021 Organisers of the #EndSARS protests have been advised to reconsider plans to stage any protest in commemoration of the one-year anniversary since the demonstrations were held in various parts of the country. The National Economic Council (NEC) gave the appeal on Friday in an advisory on public protests, saying such a plan ...CBN, Osinbajo and devaluation of the naira, by Jackson Akpore
October 13, 2021 Not a few Nigerians were surprised at the outrage that greeted what has now been clarified as a mis-characterisation of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s submission at the mid-term retreat on President Muhammadu Buhari second tenure. Many had interpreted Osinbajo’s remarks as a call for devaluation of the naira. Hours after Osinbajo’s prescription, ...ASUP demands immediate release of minimum wage arears, asks govt to set up implementation committee to administer revitalisation fund
Oct. 11, 2021 The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has called on the Federal and some state governments to pay outstanding arrears of the minimum wage to its members as contained in the Memorandum of Action (MoA). The union also frowned at the delays in the release of the approved N15 billion Revitalisation Fund, ...
