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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mr Abubakar Magaji, has owned up to administrative lapses in the purported reinstatement of dismissed former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. Magaji conceded the responsibility when he appeared before members of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the “disappearance, reappearance, reinstatement and promotion of Maina’’ in Abuja on Thursday. According to …

Britain’s ambassador to the US has conveyed to the White House the government’s concerns about Donald Trump’s promotion on Twitter of material created by the far-right group Britain First, the Guardian understands. Theresa May condemned the president’s decision on Wednesday to share propaganda videos tweeted by the deputy leader of Britain First and is expected to address the issue again …

Joel Rubenzahl is not the kind of person who seems in need of government housing assistance. He lives by himself in a four-bedroom home that he bought for $923,500 in 2000, in a genteel area of Berkeley, California. After 45 years in the business of building low-income housing, he’s semi-retired and quietly prosperous thanks to some sound investments. Yet every …

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, last Saturday, touted the achievements of the Buhari Administration, with emphasis on fiscal discipline, the fight against corruption which, according to him now makes the nation to save 25 billion naira monthly from payroll fraud. Osinbajo chose the graduation ceremony of the Senior Executive Course 39 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic …

By our correspondent A three-day Capacity Building and Stakeholders’ Engagement on Alternative Child Care has been kick started in Abeokuta by the Ogun State government. Governor Ibikunle Amosun was represented at the opening ceremony by the Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Abiola Kufile-Okonji. Speaking on the occasion, Governor Ibikunle Amosun harped on the desirability and the …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday presented a 146billion 2018 Appropriation Bill and Budget Estimates, christened ‘the Budget of Growth’ to the State House of Assembly with the assurance to consolidate on the infrastructural and socio-economic gains of the outgoing year 2017. Obaseki commended the Speaker and members of the Edo State House of Assembly for …

Eighteen months after organised labour mooted an idea for a wage increase for government workers, a positive response may soon come for the unions. The unions at the 2016 May Day anniversary reechoed their proposal for N56,000 minimum wage for workers. They argued that N18, 000 was no longer realistic as the minimum wage going by the prevailing economic realities. …

Dr Mas’udu Kazaure, the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education ( NBTE ) has called on the Federal Government to establish more technical colleges across the country. Kazaure told newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday, that the country was supposed to have at least one technical college in each of the 774 Local Government Areas. He said the …

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has dismissed claims by Chairman of Presidential Committee on Anti-corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, that Nigerians would have been crossing the Sahara to Libya had he (Jonathan) stayed in office for another three years. Jonathan, who reacted through one of his aides, Reno Omokri, said facts on ground suggested otherwise, stressing that the nation’s economy was …

The Federal Government says it has not been able to pay the statutory 5% to the Ikoyi whistle blower due to controversy surrounding the claim.The minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed made this known on Tuesday during his visit to Leadership Newspaper. He said the issue is a bit complicated because two persons are currently laying claims to …