Some Federal Government retirees are spending years after retirement not being able to access their pensions for reasons they did not cause. This is not because the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which they transited to from the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS), is not working, but because of government’s failure to implement the Retirement Benefits Bond…
Ngozi Onyia is a 1982 medical graduate of the University of Ibadan, a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in Paediatrics and a Travel Health Phydician. An alumna of the Lagos Business School EMBA 11, she became a medical entrepreneur after 28 years of medical practice in both the public and private healthcare…
~Brought to you by the Leadership of ODENGENE PEOPLES MOVEMENT (OPM) Consistency and collaboration with relevant stakeholders in an Administration are prerequisites not just only in the policy making but vital for effective and efficient leadership. On most issues, Governor Ugwuanyi’s administration has moved beyond a set of attitudes to specific thought-out positions and glorious…
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has described the new claims made by Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, as an “afterthought”. In a video that went viral on Monday, the undergraduate denied killing the Super TV CEO, a claim that is contrary to…
The House of Representatives is considering making a president or governor lose their seat if they defect from the political party on whose platform they were elected to another. Presently, the constitution only prescribes such for National Assembly and state House of Assembly members. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party from Taraba State, Rimamnde…
The court refuses to grant Zainab Yar’adua’s request for an order of injunction over the Abuja property, preferring to hearing the substantive case. A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja has declined an application by a daughter of former President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua, Zainab, for a restraining order against the Minister of the…
Sydneysiders are braced for a longer and tighter lockdown after Australia’s biggest city recorded 50 new daily cases on Saturday. “Things are going to get worse before they get better,” New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference. “Unless we reduce that level of people in the community that are infectious,…
The Egba women of Nigeria are keeping the craft of Adire making alive, and in doing so, earn modest forex for Nigeria. Johnson Bolatito’s Adire fabrics hung across the clothesline, swaying gently in the direction of the morning wind. Moments earlier at her cottage in Itoku area of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, she had arranged the fabrics…
The official said that all communities that recorded outbreak of cholera are being visited and monitored by relevant medical personnel. The Federal Capital Territory Administration has taken several measures to stop the spread of Cholera as well as provide the highest level of care to those affected by the disease. Abubakar Sani, Senior Special Assistant on Media…
The call for coup today, for the first time by people in power, which was announced by no less a person than a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and governor of Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, on behalf of the southern Nigerian governors, is a call that must be taken with the seriousness it deserved. Arising…
