Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State The move by the House of Representatives to seal the Edo State House of Assembly is unconstitutional, the Edo State government has declared. The Reps had threatened to take over the Edo Assembly if the state governor, Obaseki failed to inaugurate the House within seven days. In a statement in Benin City, Secretary to Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., said that the Nigerian Constitution does not in anyway stipulate that the House of Representatives or even the National Assembly has the right or…

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The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has introduced its 2019 Skills aquisition Programme targeted at training 18,000 Nigerians in skills acquisition and various trades. Sir Joseph Ari, ITF Director-General, while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja said its management came up with 11 implementable programmes for 2019 to address unemployment. Ari listed the programmes as National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP); Air-conditioning and Refrigeration (Training on Wheels); and Design and Garment Making (Training on Wheels) for Nigerian youths under the Passion to Professional Progrmme (P2PP). He listed others as Skills Training…

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Cattle Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by the Ugandan government. Ugandan Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja, said the move became necessary to enable government trace where the products are coming from. Ssempijja explained that the international market demanded that all countries producing food for the European market needed to provide proof so that the food could be traced. “They want to know where the meat and…

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Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker, House of Reps The appointment of Mr Anayo Nebe as Special Assistant to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has sparked off criticism by the Anambra chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Rising from a State Working Committee meeting in Awka midweek, the party said the appointment of Nebe whom it described as a member of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as “inappropriate”. The Speaker’s Spokesman, Mr Lanre Lasisi had recently announced Nebe, a former Rep, as Gbajabiamila’s Special Assistant on Political Matters…

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Teacher and her pupils Anambra State Government has in Awka given a December 31 deadline for teachers without the requisite teaching qualifications to either acquire it or be disengaged from the system. The warning was given on Wednesday by the state Ministry of Basic Education in a statement by its Public Relation Officer, Mr. Nnaemeka Egwuonwu, for the Commissioner for Basic Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha. Omenugha said that this was in line with an earlier directive of the Minister of Education to disengage teachers without requisite teaching qualification by December.…

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