The Lagos State judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters sitting in Lagos today Friday 15th October 2021 awarded 91 million naira as compensation to victims of rights abuses which makes it a total of N262 million naira that has so far been awarded to 47 petitioners by the panel since it started sitting. However a petition of Micheal Okorie vs the Nigeria police force was dismissed for lacking in merit among several decisions of awards made by the panel today. A petitoner 15 year old Mariam Shobukola was awarded 8 million naira for…
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Some members of the Governing Board of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) are warning that the activities of the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume are beginning to impede the smooth day-to-day operations of the NLRC. The Governing Board members are particularly miffed that the Minister’s actions, while breeding indiscipline and insubordination at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, are at variance with the directives of the Head of Service, Dr. (Mrs.) FolashadeYemi-Esan and an extant public service circular issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha. It could be recalled…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has promised to use the opportunity of the Third Annual Convention/lecture of the Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF, to explain the Commission’s role in building a new face for the Niger Delta Region. According to a Statement by the Chairman of the DOPF 2021Convention Planning Committee, Dcn Chijioke Williams Ugbolue and Secretary, Mr. Miracle Enuji, the Interim Administrator/Chief Executive Office of NDDC, Mr. Efiong Akwa will be leading officials of the Commission to the Convention with the theme; “Niger Delta Economy: Building A New Face For The Region. The Statement said that the NDDC…
By Sharon Ivovi The Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Honourable Sunny Ogwu has declared open a five-day teachers’ professional development capacity building workshop on teaching at the right level towards strengthening foundational skills to accelerate learning using activity based. Declaring the workshop opened on Tuesday at the College of Education, Warri which was attended by 200 participants from rural areas across the State, the SUBEB Chairman says the training organized by the Board in collaboration with UBEC, was to develop teachers’ competence to cope with mixed-age classes. The SUBEB chairman who was represented by the…
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has been scheduled to grace the Third Annual Convention/Lecture of the Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF. In a Statement by the Chairman of the Convention Planning Committee, Dcn. Chijioke Williams Ugbolue, Secretary, Mr. Miracle Enuji, Governor Okowa is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour at the event. The event slated to hold on Thursday, October 21, 2021, at the Banquet hall of Orchid Hotels and Conference Centre, Asaba, will commence by 11am. The occasion which will also be attended by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as the Guest of…
The management of MLJ Marine Oil and Gas Limited has said the company is committed to youth development through award of scholarship to indigent students and other empowerment schemes. The company said it was particularly touched by the desire of the less privileged in their area of operation,to aspire for higher studies. Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, spokesman for the company, Ambassador Prayer Pemu said several persons who are less privileged have been trained over the years as a result of their intervention. “We have assisted them and today, some are graduates. We have extended the gesture to…
By Chukwudi Iwuchukwu “ Lord Chosen church founded by Lazarus Mouka made an important announcement yesterday which is a shape of what is to come in South-East Nigeria. The church announced that for the first time in its history as a church, it will take its 2022 International Crusade – #Mgbidi22, The biggest and most organized gathering in the entire South-East that holds every January from Mgbidi, Imo state, to Ijesha, Lagos state over the unending sit at home order by IPOB and because of the insecurity in the east driven by unknown gun men. Now, this is why this…
The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr.Folashade Yemi-Esan, in a move to deepen on-going reforms and the streamlining of operations at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), has instructed the Governing Board and Management to commence this week, a thorough audit of the Senior Staff of the Commission. The Head of Service’s directive which was conveyed to the Chairman of the Governing Board of the NLRC in a memo signed by M. Mamman, Permanent Secretary (CMO) in the office of the Head of Service, is said to be sequel to the detailed findings by the Code of Conduct Bureau,…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE So many intelligentsias and economic pundits several decades before now had pontificated that the main problems with Nigeria were ethnicity and lack of patriotism on the part of the citizenry. They had argued that tribal considerations in policy formulations and unpatriotic implementations of the policy thrusts of governance at all levels had kept the country in inextricable quagmires. Yes, true as that might sound, owing to the incompatibility of the conglomerating diverse ethnic nationalities put together by the British interest in 1884, the presents realities have shown that the erstwhile stated problems of Nigeria were nothing comparable…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Asaba has dismissed a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking to sack all 25 local government councils’ chairmen and councillors in Delta State. The APC had challenged the election of the council officials on the grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not conduct valid primaries for its choice of candidates in the March 6, 2021 local government council election in the state. The APC also alleged that DSIEC colluded with PDP without observing the provisions of the DSIEC Law, 2017. In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-man panel…