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The National Population Commission (NPC) says it has engaged scores of trainers from Edo, Delta and Bayelsa states to train personnel that’ll conduct the first fully Digital Census in Nigeria. The Federal Commissioner, Delta State, Chief Richard Odibo, who disclosed this at a two-day Training of Trainers (TOT), Zonal Level Workshop for the 2023 Population and Housing Census, in Asaba …

The new global high overtakes last year’s record by 20 per cent and marks another grim milestone in a deteriorating media landscape. The number of journalists behind bars reached a global high in 2022, according to a new report from the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which says that 363 journalists were imprisoned worldwide as of 1 December. CPJ said …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday morning, returned from Washington DC, United States, after a week-long engagement at the US-Africa Leaders Summit. Buhari’s official jet landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in the early hours of Sunday, bringing the total number of foreign trips made in 2022 to at least 19. …

Traditionalists in Oyo State on Saturday threw their weights behind the aspiration of Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, to emerge the next Nigeria President in 2023. They made their position known at a ceremony held at the Ilaji Hotel and Sports Resort in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the support from the …

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, in Washington DC, said he has given the Independent National Electoral Commission the required resources for the smooth conduct of the 2023 elections. On this basis, the President said he would not entertain any excuses from the electoral umpire based on funds shortage. “I made sure they were given all the resources they asked …

Former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Saturday, said his administration was free of debt when he left office in 2018. Aregbesola who is now the Minister of Interior reacted to the statement credited to Bola Oyebamiji, the former Commissioner for Finance under the administration of the immediate past governor, Gboyega Oyetola. In a statement made available to The PUNCH …

• Pay out in old notes, complain of limited supply• Emefiele writes Reps, defers appearance• Lawmakers push summon to next Tuesday• Ibadan residents yet to see new naira notes• Banks in Kaduna, Kano limit payment to N2,000, N3,000 New banknotes began circulating as planned, yesterday. Supply across the country, however, was scanty or non-existent in some areas. Banks, which received …

Former President Dr Goodluck Jonathan congratulated President Buhari on the occasion of his 80th birthday and prayed for God’s guidance and protection as he pilots the affairs of the nation in the remaining months of his administration. . In a goodwill message he personally signed, Dr Jonathan noted that President Buhari has had an exceptional opportunity of leading the country …

• Imo teachers yet to be paid two and half years• Delta teachers receive old salary• In Rivers, teachers not promoted in seven years• Ondo teachers drive Bolt, Uber to survive• Ekiti owes four months• Rufus Giwa Poly lecturers owed 11 months The quality of education improves with motivation and incentives to teachers. Thus, as salary incentive encourages teachers, it …

…we will prosecute perpetrators if…AGF Office … secessionists, failed politicians behind attacks- Police, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu has said that the 2023 general elections were in danger should the incessant attacks on their offices and facilities continued unabated. Acknowledging that the commission can replace some essentials destroyed, the chairman said that there was …