By John Shiklam Kaduna — The Kaduna State Government has confirmed the sacking of 4,042 local government workers. The sacked workers cut across the 23 council areas of the state. This is coming just as the controversy over the sacking of about 22,000 teachers who were said to have failed a competency test is yet to settle. At a news conference yesterday in Kaduna, the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Jafaru Sani, said the sacking of the council workers was part of the ongoing restructuring of the local government system for effective service delivery. The state government had in June, sacked 4,766 district and village heads who were under the payroll of local councils to reduce their financial burdens. Sani said the restructuring was designed to strengthen the local government system to carry out developmental projects and programmes. He disclosed that 3,159 of those had put in 10 years and were retired while the remaining 893 were terminate
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Nigeria will host the second ConMin West Africa conference from May 15 to 17, 2018 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. A statement signed by the Public Relations Manager of IMAG GmbH, Claudia Grzelke, said the conference would bring together suppliers, manufacturers and solution providers who would showcase an array of products from the construction, building materials and mining sectors. It also noted that the 2018 National Mining Summit will take place alongside ConMin West Africa. The two-day conference will provide opportunity for industry experts to share their views about the latest developments, opportunities and challenges in the sector. It further stated that the organisers have unveiled a new pavilion for 2018 entirely dedicated to sustainability. The Managing Director IMAG GmbH, Peter Bergleiter, in the statement said, "We enable businesses to establish a foothold in the market at an early stage and obtain high quality contacts. The combination of a t
I equate college and career readiness to a state of being future ready. Future readiness for each student is directly tied to his individual goals for college (if he wants to go) and career desires. A generation ago, teachers could expect that what they taught would last their students for a lifetime. Today, schools need to prepare students for more rapid economic and social changes than ever before, for jobs that have not yet been created, to use technologies that have not yet been invented and to solve social problems that have not yet come up. Education, more often than not today, is more about going to school, being lectured all day, passing exams and holding a piece of paper that says you are qualified at the end. Sadly, when the real world hits our children who pass through this system, they realise that the skills used at work every day differ from what was taught at school. They are at a loss when faced with practical areas like financial education, writing skills and co
Osun state government has declared a whopping 760% growth on its investment base through diversification into Oil and Gas, Modern Poultry, Agro-allied, and a host of other ventures. The Managing Director of Omoluabi Holdings Limited(OHL), formerly called Osun State Investment Company(OSICOL), Dr. Tunde Fakeye made this known to newsmen on Wednesday during a media briefing. He said the agency commenced it’s operation in 2011 with a capital base of N300m, and built it up to N3.6 billion as at 2017, which represents a total of 760% increase within the spate of 6 years. Fakeye adduced the speedy growth to array of innovations and business idea the present administration in the state introduced, which has helped the agency in no small way. He, however, called on other states to go into business ventures and build a reliable Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) that would sustain the states in the face of dwindling monthly allocations from the federation account. According to
The Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Nsofor, has presented his letter of credence to President Donald Trump. Mr. Nsofor, at the presentation of his credentials at the White House, applauded the existing cordial bilateral relations between Nigeria and the U.S. The new envoy also expressed Nigeria’s desire to deepen its ties with the U.S. Mr. Nsofor conveyed President Muhammadu Buhari’s goodwill and good wishes to Mr. Trump. The envoy and his wife were, thereafter, honoured to a reception at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The reception was attended by Hassan Mohammed, the Deputy Head of Mission, embassy officials and representatives of the Nigerian community in the U.S. Mr. Mohammed described the new ambassador as a man of high standard and urged embassy officials to redouble their efforts to support him. Mr. Nsofor was a judge of the High Court, Justice of the Court of Appeal and lecturer in Law at the Holborn College of Law in London. He
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan and the Senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, Ben Murray-Bruce, have applauded music star, Ayo Balogun, otherwise known as Wizkid for defeating famous American rapper, JayZ and others to win the Best International Act at this year’s MOBO awards The Nigerian artiste floored famous names like Jay-Z, Cardi B,Kendrick Lamar and others to clinch the best international artiste award. The former president in a statement on his Facebook wall, congratulated Wizkid for taking Nigeria to greater heights He wrote, “When Nigeria does well, I cannot help but feel well. My happiness is tied to the happiness of Nigeria and when Nigerians break records and take the name of Nigeria to greater heights it exhilarates me. “Thank you Wizkid for raising Nigeria’s flag high for the positive, not the negative. Your emergence as the Best International Act at the #MOBOAwards is a proud moment for Nigeria. And the fact that you emerged over JAY-Z an
As part of efforts to improve the quality and efficient school administration in Bauchi State, a total of 891 School Base Management Committee (SBMC) members across the state have been trained on effective management of schools to meet international standards. The training, under the Additional Financing programme, which was provided by the State Education Programme Investment Project (SEPIP), is targeting SBMC members for 297 schools in Ganjuwa, Katagum and Toro centres representing the three senatorial districts of the state. The three-day training, which was specifically organised for SBMC chairmen, secretaries and treasurers is to enable the members plan, improve and effectively manage schools in the state. Declaring the training open Thursday, the Chairman, Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (BASUBEB), Prof. Yahaya Ibraheem Yero, said the workshop was meant to improve the SBMC on ways to conduct and manage the school system with a view to taking over schools fro
The Nigerian customs has announced the discovery of a new method of smuggling used by criminals to bring in foreign made rice into the country. The Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamafara command of the Nigerian customs, in a statement on Wednesday, revealed that unscrupulous elements now conceal the smuggled rice in local sacks in order to deceive customs officials and gain easy entry into the country. Below is a statement and Photographs obtained by PoliticsNGR; “The command has discovered another way of smuggling Foreign Rice into the Country using Local sacks to conceal it. The Comptroller has made it clear that Nigeria Customs would not allow any form of smuggling into the Country and appealed to the people to avert smuggling activities.”
SEOUL, South Korea — The Latest on the global response to North Korea’s latest missile launch (all times local): 9:30 a.m. Thursday Russia’s U.N. ambassador is strongly urging North Korea to stop its nuclear and missile tests and calling on the U.S. and South Korea to cancel large-scale military maneuvers scheduled for December, warning that these drills “will only inflame an already explosive situation.” Vassily Nebenzia told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that Russia is “deeply disappointed” at North Korea’s long-range ballistic missile launch Tuesday, stressing that Moscow doesn’t support Pyongyang “becoming a nuclear power.” He says Russia is strongly calling on all parties to stop the “spiral of tension.” Nebenzia says Russia believes the only way to resolve the situation is through “tireless and diplomatic efforts” to find “a long-term and mutually acceptable solution.” 8:55 a.m. Thursday China’s deputy U.N. ambassador says the top
BANGKOK -- Two Americans who maintained a social media account called "Traveling Butts" have been arrested in Thailand after posting a photo of themselves at a famous Buddhist temple with their rear ends exposed, police said Wednesday. Deputy police spokesman Krisana Pattanacharoen said the men were arrested Tuesday night at a Bangkok airport and face public indecency charges. The men caused an uproar in Buddhist-majority Thailand last week after their photo taken at Bangkok's Wat Arun was widely shared, prompting a police investigation. The men, whom police identified only by their first names, maintained a since-deleted Instagram account where they posed for photos at tourist destinations around the world with their buttocks exposed. The account had more than 14,000 followers. Visitors to temples in Thailand are expected to dress modestly and at some sites people are not allowed to wear shorts or shirts that don't cover their shoulders. Police said the m
WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared on Tuesday that North Korea now had the missile capability to “threaten everywhere in the world, basically,” he hinted at a long-running debate inside the United States government: Can the same strategy that worked against the Soviet Union — mutually assured destruction — also work against a far smaller adversary? The answer is yes, of course it can, if the problem is defined as keeping Pyongyang from unleashing a surprise attack on the continental United States. Or no, it probably can’t, if the problem of containing North Korea is more complex than simply protecting Los Angeles and Washington. And with North Korea, as the past 70 years of bitter experience have repeatedly shown, almost everything is more complex. There is no evidence that Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s current leader, or his father or grandfather, ever contemplated getting into a direct nuclear exchange with the United States. Depending on whose estimates