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Health care workers want equal pay with doctors
2 years ago659 min
Strong signs point to the possibility of a new pay parity dispute between doctors and the Joint Health Sector Union members in the healthcare industry. The Nigerian Medical Association asserted that the request for an increase in the Consolidated Health Salary Structure, which sets salaries for health professionals such as chemists and medical laboratory scientists among others, would have a negative impact on the already vulnerable health sector. This dispute is clearly between the doctors...
Ideal legislature of a developing country, By Tonnie Iredia
2 years ago6912 min
A typical Nigerian legislator would take advantage of any occasion, whether public or private, to demand recognition and respect from the community. The claim made by the lawmaker is based on the justification that, among all the branches of government, the legislature is the best representation of democracy because it frequently suffers the least damage when autocrats violently seize power. Therefore, the argument goes, lawmakers are the only true representatives of the people. But if...
Tinubu commends Anaba, says Editors’ Guild election outstanding
2 years ago795 min
On Saturday, President Bola Tinubu congratulated Eze Anaba, who had just been elected President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, calling the electoral process “exemplary” for Nigerian politics.Dele Alake, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, issued a statement on Saturday evening reading, “By its peaceful and rancour-free conduct of elections to elect its new officers, the NGE has sent a resounding message to the larger Nigerian polity that elections for desired offices...
Anaba, Vanguard editor, elected NGE president
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Eze Anaba, the editor of Vanguard Newspapers, was chosen as the Nigerian Guild of Editors’ new president on Friday for the ensuing two years. He won an election held during the biennial NGE convention in Owerri, Imo State, in 2023. Anaba received 250 votes, defeating Bolaji Adebiyi, his lone rival, who received 81 votes. Husseina Bangshika, the Deputy President, Kabir Alabi Garba, the Vice President for the West, Gabriel Akinadewo Folajimi, the Assistant Secretary,...
Zainab Bulkachuwa, the wife of senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, has denied that he had any influence over her choices while she was the president of the Court of Appeal. When he admitted to using his position to secure favours for his colleagues from his wife during the 9th Senate’s final session, the senator who represented Bauchi North in the 9th Assembly stirred up debate on the Senate floor. “I look at faces in this chamber...
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the recently-retired vice president of Nigeria, is scheduled to lead a 12-member COG for the elections in Sierra Leone this Saturday. Osinbajo had agreed to take the helm of the Observer Group organised by the Commonwealth’s Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, to monitor the general elections in Sierra Leone. Osinbajo’s media advisor, Laolu Akande, confirmed his itinerary via his Twitter account, stating that the former Vice President will remain in Sierra Leone for the...
Lagos State police arrested a former corporal for impersonating an inspector. According to SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspect was arrested on June 4 at Gaskiya College Road Junction, Ijora-Badiya. Hundeyin said a preliminary investigation showed the suspect had been using the uniforms since his 2017 police dismissal. He said the 35-year-old suspect from Sango Ota, Ogun, was arrested on an unregistered motorbike. He said a police stop-and-search team questioned the suspect about riding a motorbike...
Kano to improve bilateral relations with French Republic
2 years ago633 min
Kano State Governor Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf reiterated the administration’s commitment to strengthening the current consular ties between Kano State and the French Republic. At a Friday meeting at the State Government House with the French Ambassador to Nigeria, the governor made this commitment. Yusuf praised Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the former governor of Kano State, for his work in establishing and upholding a constructive relationship with the French government. He was represented...
Court orders DSS to give Emefiele access to family, solicitors
2 years ago10042 min
On Friday, Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to allow suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele access to his attorneys and family. Following an oral request made by Joseph Daudu’s (SAN), counsel for the CBN governor, in a case with the filing number FCT/HC/CV/6450/23, the judge approved the order. The DSS, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), and its Director-General...