Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has appealed to workers in the state to shelve the planned strike. The workers are reported to be planning a three-day warning strike over alleged deduction of eight percent from their May 2015 salaries as pension contributions with effect from Monday next week. Oshiomole, who has appealed to the workers not to go on strike also said he would meet with them in the shortest possible time. In a letter through the Commissioner for Establishment and Special Duties, Didi Adodo, to the Chairman, State Public Service Negotiating Council, the governor said his inaction on the…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Several Nigerians blame Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for Nigeria’s economic woes. A lot of them therefore detest her and believe she does not deserve an honourary doctorate confered on her by an American university earlier this week. Okonjo-Iweala was awarded an honourary Doctor of Humane Letters from Yale University, one of the United State of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The award made her the second Nigerian in the university’s 314-year history to receive its highest honour after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who received an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1980.…
Chelsea and Ivory Coast superstar soccer player, Didier Drogba, has hooked up with American rapper, Snoop Dogg. The two met on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival in a VIP room filled with several Hollywood celebrities and movie stars. An elated Drogba shared a picture of the moment on his official Instagram account with the caption: – ‘Great to catch up with my big bro yesterday @snoopdogg in Cannes @viproom SN double O PEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
Controversial Nollywood actor Chidi Mokeme has shared cute photos of his son’s baptism. His son Noah was baptised on May 17 in the United States of America. Chidi Mokeme shared the pictures on his Instagram account today, May 21, 2015. He wrote: – “On the 11th of March in the year 2015AD, set in a heavenly garden, with rose petals in all shades of red and cherry blossoms in all shades of pink, against a backdrop of sunset made of pure gold, A baby asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth today, but how am I…
Adebayor has been going on and on about how his family members are after his life. Well the soccer star, Emmanuel Adebayo, has been given a compassionate leave by his football club, Tottenham Hotspur for a second time this season. Via- Telegraph Emmanuel Adebayor has been granted compassionate leave by Tottenham Hotspur for a second time this season to return to Togo to sort out his personal issues. Spurs head coach Mauricio Pochettino has excused Adebayor from training this week and the final game of the season against Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday. He will not travel on the…
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has continued her new campaign and has now been joined by singers Waje and Yemi Alade to fight poverty among women around the world in a campaign, ‘Poverty Is Sexist’ propelled by ONE Organization. The female celebrities have now gone on social media to push this campaign, the entertainers are using what they call a’strengthie’. ‘Strengthie’ features people across the globe taking selfies of themselves while flexing their arms in a notion to portray their strength and show solidarity for girls and women. The symbol is now being used to promote the song, ‘Strong Girl’ featuring Waje, Yemi Alade,…
Halima Abubakar is back again, of course with some controversies. In a recent chat with Encomium, the actress revealed her relationship issues, why she was depressed and how life treated her during hard times. Read excerpts from the interview below: – When asked about her depression, the actress said “It’s a very huge experience, and coming out of it wasn’t that easy. A lot of people don’t really understand what being depressed is. Some may say they are sad, they are not but depressed. But what happens is that they don’t know they’re depressed, they’re just sad. Every day they…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, says the party will not compromise merit in its choice of the Senate President. Tinubu said this today in Abuja after holding a closed-door meeting with the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, he would support the party’s decision, but merit would not be compromised while making the decision. “Well, you have heard from the party; you have heard from leadership. My desire is not to rock the party. I am a disciplined party man and we will look at it critically. “However, the nation is expecting us to take…
The Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus says members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party would not resign as being canvassed by some members. Secondus said this while speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He noted that there was no reason for any of the remaining NWC members to resign following the resignation of former chairman Adamu Muazu, as their stay in office is tenured. The acting chairman also debunked insinuations that Muazu was forced to resign. “You know that is not right,…
file photo: Port Harcourt refinery The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Thursday urged stakeholders in the oil and gas sector to invest in small size refineries to enhance national refining capacity. Speaking at a sensitisation Roadshow on Modular Refinery Initiative in Nigeria in Abuja, the DPR Deputy Director, Engineering and Standard, Mr Alfred Ohiani, gave the advice. He explained that modular refinery is mini or small size refineries able to handle or have refining capacity between 10,000 and 30,000 barrels per day. He said it had a small footprint and the relatively low technology involvement makes it easy and…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has imposed dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ado Ekiti, the capital city following an attack on the Hausa community in the city, allegedly on the instruction of the People’s Democratic Party in the state. Fayose gave the order while addressing the Hausa Community at Atikankan area of Ado Ekiti. He said the curfew begins on Thursday (today) evening between 6pm and 6am. He also ordered the security agencies to arrest whoever flouts the order while the curfew is on. The community was attacked on Wednesday by people alleged to be members of the National Union of Road…
Nobel laureate and first chairman, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Prof. Wole Soyinka, has admonished the management of FRSC to form road safety clubs in secondary schools across the country. Soyinka said he made the call so as to enable to corps reach out to students in the secondary schools to imbibe road safety culture, just as there were Press Clubs. “I must commend the Corps for their commitment to duty. It must be stressed that they had repositioned the agency for better performance,” Soyinka said today at Asero Motor Park, Abeokuta, during the road safety advocacy mega rally themed…
The Senate on Thursday directed its committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream) to immediately look into the causes of the current fuel crisis in the country. This was sequel to a motion moved by the Deputy Senate Majority Leader, Senator Abdul Ningi, who prayed the red chamber to pay serious attention to the biting fuel crisis, which was causing untold hardships for Nigerians at the moment. The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the plenary, noted that since Ningi raised the motion under personal explanation, the senate would not debate it but would rather approve his prayers. Ekweremadu…
One of the aspirants for Speaker of the House of Representatives in the soon-to-be inaugurated 8th Assembly, Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied his bid is being sponsored by a national leader of his party – the All Progressives Congress – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Mr. Gbabiamila, who is presently Minority Leader in the House, made the clarification Wednesday while addressing Rep members-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja. “I intend to be speaker not for anybody. Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has no hand in it. Lamido Sanusi left his palace in Kano and pleaded with him to support me. He didn’t…
Ahead of this Saturday, May 23, 2015 local government elections in Rivers State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied releasing the voters register to the State Independent Electoral Commission for the exercise. The Administrative Secretary of the commission, Mr. Roy Oburu, who was reacting to reports that the commission had released the voters register to RSIEC, stated this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Oburu explained that INEC refused to release the documents, which would enable voters to choose their council chairmen and councilors in strict adherence to a High Court order, which ruled that the status quo…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described the resignation of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu, as a good omen for the party. Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, the governor, who was the first to call for the resignation of Mu’azu, said, “We see it as a welcome development. When a political party loses an election, the moral thing for the leadership of that party is to quit office. “Muazu and others ought not to have waited for the call for their resignation before doing the right…
Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has said the petition challenging his re-election as governor of the state will amount to a wild goose chase. The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, had approached the governorship Election Petitions Tribunal seeking nullification of Okorocha’s victory. Ihedioha cited “violence, intimidation, widespread malpractices and partisanship on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission” as grounds upon which he was praying the tribunal to nullify the election. But Okorocha, in a statement on Wednesday by his Special Senior Adviser…
Some workers in Baruten Local Government Council of Kwara now engage in casual labour to earn a living due to the non-payment of their three months salaries. A correspondent who visited the council secretariat on Wednesday, observed that only a few staff turned up for work as a result of the development. Some workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described their condition as pathetic. One of the workers told NAN that he now works in a local bakery to earn a living. He said: “How do I survive without three month salaries when I do not have another job?…
The Election Petitions Tribunal in Niger State has received seven petitions relating to the March 28 and April 11 elections in the state. The Tribunal’s Secretary, Mr Oluremi Olagunju, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, the state capital on Thursday. Olagunju said that three of the applications were for the House of Representatives and four for the House of Assembly elections, adding that one request was also granted for inspection of election materials. “The tribunal has received seven petitions relating to the House of Representatives and the state House of Assembly. The petitions were filed…
The management of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, KEDC, has blamed the rationing of power amongst its customers, which has become severe lately, on low energy allocation from the national grid. The Head, Corporate Communication of KEDC, AbdulAzeez Abdullahi, in a press statement issued in Kaduna yesterday, revealed that the allocation has been drastically reduced by almost half. He disclosed that “the company, which franchise area covers the four North West states of Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara, received an allocation of 160 megawatts (mws) of electricity yesterday and has been receiving between 150 to 200mws in the past two weeks.…