The governing council of Federal Universities will take over the payment of earned allowances of lecturers and other university workers in their respective institutions from 2024. Our correspondent also gathered that the Federal Government will release the sum of N50 billion to take care of outstanding earned allowances before handing over the duty to governing council of varsities. A source within the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities made this known in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday. “Also on the issue of earned allowances, 50 billion has been budgeted to…
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The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said there was no plan to sell the Transmission Company of Nigeria and urged the public to dismiss statements regarding a non-existing plan to privatise the government-owned power firm. It said this was in response to media reports and statements claiming that there was a plan to privatise TCN. According to the Federal Ministry of Power, some of the reports falsely claimed that the said privatisation was going to take place in the coming months. “These reports are untrue and are only mere misinformation aimed at spreading panic in the power sector, which…
The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved MTN’s takeover of the construction of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway at over N202.8bn under the road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after this week’s council meeting chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Fashola, the approval followed Executive Order 7 signed by the President in January 2019. This, he said, would enable the telecom giant to complete the dualisation of the 110-kilometer road. Under the same scheme,…
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said insecurity may hamper elections in the North-West and South-East states Yakubu said the insecurity in the country was concerning, noting that the security challenge which was hitherto restricted to the North-East region has now spread to other parts of the country. For over two decades, Nigeria has battled the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East but this has evolved into banditry in the North-West and killings in the South-East allegedly perpetrated by Eastern Security Network, the militant arm of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra.…
Olatundun Olayinka has assumed duty as the new Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo, an official statement has said. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Daniel Aidamenbor, disclosed this on Wednesday in Akure. He said that Olayinka replaced Hammed Abodunrin, currently attending a one-year course at War College, Abuja. Aidamenbor expressed the commitment of the new commandant to key into the vision of the NSCDC Commandant-General. The public relations officer further said that Olayinka was willing to build on the achievements of his predecessor. ”To build is very easy, to maintain requires…
Deontay Wilder has said that there is still the chance of a fight with his heavyweight rival Anthony Joshua, even though the pair are now beltless. After Joshua claimed the WBA, IBF and WBO belts his team spent six months haggling with the former WBC king but could never get an undisputed deal done. The 32-year-old was eventually beaten by Andy Ruiz Jr before Wilder lost two magnificent clashes with Tyson Fury. The rivalry between the two power punchers remains the same as both teams blame the other for sabotaging the mega-money deal that should have happened…
Anikulapo, a Netflix original movie produced and directed by veteran actor, Kunle Afolayan, is currently topping the Netflix weekly global chart as the most viewed non-English Netflix original movie. Since its release just 11 days ago, a weekly top 10 list of the most watched movies by Netflix, showed that Anikulapo had been viewed for 8,730,000 hours between October 3 and October 9, 2022. A statement from Kunle Afolayan Production on Wednesday, confirms. The movie, which was set in the pre-colonial era of the 17th century old Oyo Empire, tells the story of a sojourner who finds his…
A Nollywood film-maker and producer, Olajide Kareem, alias Seun Egbegbe, has been discharged and acquitted by a Federal High court in Lagos, after after spending six years and eight months in prison custody. Egbegbe was remanded on February 10, 2017, after allgedly obtaining money by false pretence from no fewer than 40 Bureaus De Change operators in different parts of Lagos for over a period of two years between 2015 to 2017. He was accused of swindling the BDC operators by claiming that he had naira to change into foreign currencies. The 45-year-old controversial figure in the…
The world 100m hurdles champion and world record holder, Tobi Amusan, has been listed among the 10 nominees for the Women’s World Athlete of the Year organised by World Athletics. The athletics body made this known in a press release published on their website on Wednesday, October 12. The body had further mentioned that the 10 nominees had been selected by an international panel of athletics experts, from all six continental areas of World Athletics. Amusan alongside Kenyan’s Faith Kipyegon, who is the current World 1500m champion and Diamond League 1500m champion, were the only Africans to nominated. The statement…
Singer Bankole Wellington aka Banky W has said Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) didn’t sign BBNaija ‘Shine Ya Eye’ winner, Whitemoney. Banky, in an interview with Hot FM, explained how he and his partner decided to transit from a record label to a media and marketing agency in 2017. The host asked if that was the reason they signed Whitemoney. Banky W said they never did rather they helped him get an influencer deal with one of the corporate bodies they service. He stressed the fact that EME didn’t sign Whitemoney and that he wasn’t their artiste.…