Former senior MDC Alliance official Lillian Timveos, who in February defected to Zanu PF, has graduated from the ruling party’s Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology. Speaking after her graduation, the ex-lawmaker said she deeply regretted wasting her time and resources in opposition politics and was now an excited member of the ruling party. Timveos, who […]
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ZIMBABWE is on the verge of a massive brain drain in the health sector once the Covid-19 pandemic is over, a public health specialist has warned. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) secretary-general, Norman Matara was speaking at a Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) workshop conducted in Harare, Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s health […]
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, son to late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, has resigned from both the Joshua Nkomo Cultural Movement and the Joshua Nkomo Legacy Restoration Project Trust following his decision to contest for the Zapu presidency. He was the chairperson of the two organisations. Sibangilizwe (63) is set to contest for the Zapu presidency during the […]
ReadoutOffice of the SpokespersonApril 27, 2021 The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary Antony J. Blinken met virtually today with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. They discussed the global economic recovery, Nigeria’s security challenges and regional security issues, the effort against COVID-19, and the effects of climate change in […]
The Action Group was publicly inaugurated at the historical hall on the hill in Owo, Town in Ondo Province on the 28th of April 1951 and had representatives from 22 out of the 24 Administrative Divisions of the Western Region. AFENIFERE, therefore, could not have been created by anybody recently as was attemptedly claimed in […]
The Federal Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has commenced moves to create a database for imported vehicles with a view to checkmating import duty evasion and theft. Speaking at the just concluded training programme hosted by the Nigeria Custom Service, NCS, Nnamdi Nwajiuba, Business Analyst, Fourcore Technology Solutions Limited, […]
The congestion caused by the Apapa gridlock is beginning to spill into the inner city as holding bays are being established in other parts of Lagos State away from the ports areas. One of such holding bays is currently taking shape in Ejigbo Local Government and Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, following the construction […]
There are indications that the Federal Government has awarded the contract for the construction of section two of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway stretching from Sunrise to Cele bus stop. Recall that the section of the road have not been attended to in the last couple of years because the Federal Government was yet to award it […]
Lagos State Government, yesterday, expressed dissatisfaction over the current traffic congestion in Apapa and its environs, despite the introduction of the electronic-Call-Up system, saying there was more to be done to restore sanity to the axis. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederick Oladeinde, said this during the Year 2021 Ministerial Press Briefing, as part of activities […]
The Lagos State government through the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure has completed the construction of 51 road projects in 731 days, which marks two years of the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Infrastructure, Engineer Aramide Adeyoye. Adeyoye noted that 43 more […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the federal government was setting up an audience measurement system to be able to facilitate its decision to fight exclusivity of programme to any cable TV. The minister, who appeared yesterday before the Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation, said it had been […]
The Lagos State Government said yesterday the Lekki Deep Seaport would reduce congestion at Apapa Port in the state and would be four times bigger than the Apapa port. The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Sam Ebugbe who disclosed this yesterday, said the government had designed several intervention projects for seamless take-off of the […]
The dean, Borno Elders’ Forum, Prof. Khalifa Dikwa, has alleged that some people in government are sabotaging the nation’s security agencies, saying that is why the Boko Haram insurgency is yet to end. Dikwa, while featuring on Channel’s Politics Today Monday night, said the government had the option to buy weapons from other countries if […]
The federal government said yesterday that the Digital Switch Over (DSO) being put in place will create 800,000 jobs. According to the government, the Digital Switch Over will be rolled out soon. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this during an interactive session with the senate committee on Information and National Orientation […]
Channels TV misinterpreted our letter, we only cautioned it to desist, the NBC says. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it only warned Channels TV and did not suspend the station’s operations over the broadcast of an interview with a leader of an outlawed group, IPOB. The NBC has faced criticism since Monday when news […]
Gaborone — Government would like to inform stakeholders and members of the public that it is greatly concerned by the unsubstantiated, uncorroborated and unfortunate newspaper article appearing on the front page of The Patriot on Sunday of April 25, 2021 under the heading “Civil servants face salary cuts,” which purports that government intends to cut […]
Thousands of workers in at least eight counties have gone without salaries for up to five months, with the National Treasury being blamed for delays in disbursing funds to the devolved units. Staff in Taita Taveta, Murang’a, Kisumu, Migori, Bomet, Kericho, Meru and Makueni are struggling to foot their bills, and some counties are now […]
Government says it has set May 4 for the full commencement of the delinking of the University of Malawi and acting secretary for Education Raphael Agabu said the Ministry of Education has gazetted the date. The government, under Acts of Parliament Nos 18, 19 and 20 of 2019, is unbundling the University of Malawi into […]