Day: July 15, 2022

Nigerian Olujimi Fafowora Bags 1st Class in Maths at Oxford Varsity

Abibat Babalola

21 year-old grandson of Ambassador and Mrs Dapo Fafowora becomes second Nigeria to set the maths record at Oxford Another Nigerian, Mr. Olujimi Fafowora, has made a first-class honours degree at the University of Oxford in England. Fafowora, 21, graduated summa cum laude in mathematics at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. READ ALSO: Nigerian Who Once Hawked Wares to Feed Bags Distinction at US Varsity JUST IN: Pay CJN N10m, S’Court Justices N9m Monthly Salary, Court To Govt BREAKING: Ghana Announces 15% Pay Rise For Workers Lagos Top Educationist, Olubunmi Ibiyemi…

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BREAKING: Ghana Announces 15% Pay Rise For Workers

Aoko Benjamin

President Nana Akufo-Addo says Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) is to cushion inflation Starting from July 2022, each public worker in Ghana would have a 15 per cent raise in his or her wages. Platforms Africa reports that this pay rise is to reflect current economic situation in the West African country, particularly to cushion the effect of skyrocketing inflation that has beset it in recent years, which has greatly reduced the general quality of living. Named Cost of living Allowance (COLA), the move is the major highlight of the…

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JUST IN: Pay CJN N10m, S’Court Justices N9m Monthly Salary, Court To Govt

Aliyu Aliyu

The court held that the stagnation of the salaries and allowances of the nation’s judges since 2008 when they were last increased is not only embarrassing but an injustice. Respite may have finally come the way of embattled Nigerian judicial officers that have been suffering the injustice of poor salaries as a National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered the National Assembly, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to urgently initiate measures to ensure upward review of the…

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Lagos Top Educationist, Olubunmi Ibiyemi Craig, Dies At 85

Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

Tributes for Late proprietress of Labo Memorial Primary School and Somerset Secondary School who was survived by chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun East Senatorial District,. Mr Segun Senbanjo, among others   The families of Akin Craig and Senbanjo have announced the passing on to glory of their dear wife, mother, sister, aunt, mother-in-law, grandmother, and great grandmother, Mrs. Olubunmi Ibiyemi Craig (Nee Osisanya). She gave up the ghost on Wednesday, July 13 at the ripe age of 85. According to the family, the burial arrangements would be…

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Nigerian Who Once Hawked Wares to Feed Bags Distinction at US Varsity

Abibat Babalola

Grass to Grace: The Master’s Degree holder in Business Administration from Nexford University, Washington, shares grass to grace story in an emotional tributes he penned for his mother   A brilliant Nigerian Man named Ifeanyi Akaleme, who hawked for his mother at the age of 5 to feed and pay his school fees has grown to become successful despite the rough start. Ifeanyi celebrated his success with his mother on Linkedin noting that she worked very hard in the family to ensure her children are successful. “Things were so hard…

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How PDP’ll defeat Sanwo-Olu With My 20m instagram Followers -Funke Akindele

Abibat Babalola

“Acting taken too far, a poorly plotted not funny comedy that may end in theatric tragedy,” reaction trails Lagos PDP deputy governorship candidate’s statement   Funke Akindele, an award-winning actress and deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, has boasted that her followers on social media, numbering over 20 million, will come out en masse to vote for the party in 2023. Ms Akindele was convicted and sentenced in 2020 for violating Lagos COVID-19 protocols but was granted a pardon by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Her declaration to…

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Nigeria Air Traffic Controllers Lampoons FAAN Over Runway Closure

Ganiyu Amodu

“Closing runway 18L of the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Lagos, by FAAN, without communicating to NATCA, unfortunate”   The Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association, NATCA, yesterday, berated the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, for closing runway 18L of the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Lagos, without informing it. This came as the President of the association, Mr. Yomi Agoro, disclosed that air traffic controllers across the country are grossly inadequate to manage the existing airports. READ ALSO: Lagos Int’l Airport Shut, Flights…

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No Amount of Alcohol is Healthy If You Are Younger Than 40 – Study

ADEOLA YUSUF

Above 40 without underlying health condition, this report names diseases that small amount of alcohol can reduce with other surprising results of a global study on alcohol consumption detailed here   . Think you’re OK because you only drink on weekends? Think again, study says . No amount of alcohol is good for the heart – Study . What a man can do a woman can not do, study finds differences in man and woman consumprion level   No amount of alcohol is healthy if you are younger than 40,…

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Sacked LAHASCOM Boss Heads To Court In faceoff With Speaker

Ganiyu Amodu

“The speaker without recourse to the Service rules has been operating the commission like a unit of the assembly. Very sad that the democracy had been basterdised,” Mogaji opens can of worms on alleged illegality by Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa “Allegations against Mr. Speaker unfounded, sack of Mr. Mogaji was by the Assembly, followed due process”   The sacked Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Services Commission (LAHASCOM), Mr Olawale Mogaji, says he will go to court to seek redress to the sacking of his appointment by the assembly during…

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