President Muhammadu Buhari in his Independence show on Thursday (today) guaranteed Nigerians that his legislature was not oppressing anyone but rather said all must be prepared to represent their deeds. Acquiring from his inaugural discourse on May 29, Buhari said, “I bear no malevolence against anybody on past occasions. No one ought to apprehension anything from me. “We are not after anybody. Individuals ought to just apprehension the results of their activities. I therefore welcome everybody, whatever his or her political perspective, to go along with me in working for the country.” Promotion Nigeria today checks 55 years of autonomy, having secured its opportunity from the British colonialists on October 1, 1960. The President said the subjects expected to praise despite the circumstance in the nation, thou he lamented that we had not completely misused solidarity of reason as a country favored with unlimited human and common assets. Buhari told Nigerians: “...
A total of N77.18bn has been paid to the next of kin of 27,321 deceased workers as pension benefits of their breadwinners under the Compulsory Pension Scheme. The amount, which was paid as of the first quarter of this year, showed an increase of N25.9bn over N52bn.9bn recorded as of the first quarter of last year. ADVERTISEMENT These figures were contained in the latest report of the National Pension Commission on pension matters obtained by our correspondent on Friday. NAICOM said the amount (N77.18bn) represented what had been paid to the beneficiaries of the deceased employees from the inception of the scheme to the end of the first quarter of 2015. Experts noted that more relatives of deceased workers were now coming out to demand for the benefits of their breadwinners following the reform of the pension administration, which had simplified the claim and entitlement process. The Pension Reform Act 2004 was amended last year as part of the reforms ...
Rivers State was one of the hotspots during the 2015 elections Charles Okoye, Head of election monitoring in Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Rivers State Office appeared before the Rivers State Governorship election tribunal on Saturday 12 th September, 2015 on the strength of a subpoena served on him by the tribunal. Charles said as head of monitoring in Rivers State office of INEC he was the most competent person to speak on what transpired in Rivers State on election day. He simply described the Governorship and House of Assembly election purportedly held on 11 th and 12 th April in Rivers State as militant terrorism and a charade. Mr. Okoye said his office staff were split into three teams plus observers and monitored elections in 19 of the 23 LGAs of the state. He said his team monitored the elections with three National Commissioners of INEC and that his team covered 19 out of 23 LGAs of Rivers State. The Head of INEC election mo...
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