Category: Jobs/Trainings

BREAKING: Buhari Fires NYSC DG 6 months After Appointment

Efe Wellington

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate removal of Brigadier General Muhammad Kukah Fadah from office as the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The DG has been ordered to hand over to the most senior civil servant in the scheme. But reasons were not provided as at press time by the Presidency for the sacking of Fadah. However, credible sources in the Presidential Villa told PRNigeria that the NYSC boss’s removal was not unconnected with the fact that he has exhibited “glaring incompetence” in the six…

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Mass Sack Scare Rocks Twitter As Musk Plans To Cut Half Of Jobs

Ganiyu Amodu

The richest billionaire Elon Musk has revealed plans to cut about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc which is equally half of the company’s workforce in a bid to cut costs. Musk, who just acquired Twitter made the revelation on Wednesday according to Bloomberg News citing people familiar with the matter. READ ALSO: Want Twitter Blue Verification, Pay $8, Elon Musk Slams Charges On Users Elon Musk Shades Critics Over Trump’s Return To Twitter Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Fires Executives Nigerian-Born Lady Promoted To Brig. General In US Army +…

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Ijeoma Nwogwugwu Quits As ARISE TV MD

Precious Ibekwe

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu has resigned from her position as the Managing Director of Arise TV, after serving in that capacity for four years, Platforms Africa reports. Nwogwugwu who was an editor at THISDAY newspaper, on Wednesday, made known her intention to resign without any further details. The veteran journalist who was appointed in 2018 to head ARISE News Channel, however, gave a month’s notice. Nwogwugwu is one of the foremost female editors in Nigeria. In 2020, She also ranked the first among twenty-five most powerful women in Journalism according to WijAfrican…

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WATCHOUT: Costly Mistakes To Avoid When Drafting A Contract

Damilola Olonade

A contract is a legal document binding you and another party to certain obligations, and when you’re a small business owner, making one tiny mistake in drafting a contract could mean the end of your business. Before you sit down to create a contract, take some time to learn the most common mistakes small business owners make when they’re drafting a contract. Mistake 1: Being Unprepared Don’t start writing the contract until you have all the information you need. Write an outline of all relevant facts, figures, and data: costs,…

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100 Nigerian Youths Trained On Pre-Paid Meters Assembly, Installation – NCDMB

Efe Wellington

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Femadec Energy Ltd have commenced the training of 100 youths on industrial assembly and installation of pre-paid meters. The kick-off ceremony of one month-long training was held recently at the Femadec Yard, Lagos. Speaking at the event, the General Manager, Capacity Building Division, NCDMB, Dr. Ama Ikuru hinted that the Board’s partnership with Femadec Energy Limited created a good opportunity for the training and employment of Nigerian youths, which is consistent with the 60:20:20 human capital development policy of the Board.…

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1000 Cross River Youths Graduate From NCDMB GSM Training

Efe Wellington

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has successfully completed the training of 1000 Cross River State youths on GSM phone repairs, hardware, software & entrepreneurship development under its Youth Empowerment Programme. The training was held in three locations across the state, namely Calabar, Ikom and Ogoja and is the sixth in the seriesorganised by the NCDMB, having conducted similar interventions in Kano, Kaduna, Cross River, Bauchi and Yobe States which had impacted about 3,900 youths. Speaking at the closing ceremony held recently in Calabar, the Executive Secretary of…

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UK Varsity Lecturers Begin Strike

Ganiyu Amodu

4,000 members of the UCU at colleges across England, have taken up the industrial action over poor renumeration   University lecturers across the United Kingdom have begun a strike. Platforms Africa reports that the action being taken by the lecturers under the University and College Union (UCU) is a 10-day strike to protest poor renumeration. READ ALSO: ASUU Has Been On Strike for 1,744 Days in 16 Years — Report ASUU: How Govt Made U-Turn On Order Directing VCs To Reopen Varsities ASUU President And His Union of Quacks, By Lasisi…

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UPDATE: ASUU Reacts, Vows to Appeal Court Order on Resumption

Abibat Babalola

BE CALM, BE UNITED: Full Content of the message the union sent to.members after industrial court ordered it to end seven-month strike + ERC’s call on NLC and TUC to declare a 48-hour nationwide warning strike in reaction to the court order on ASUU   The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is set to appeal the order by the National Industrial Court (NIC) directing the suspension of its seven months old strike. In a terse statement sent to members of the union on Wednesday by the Chairman of Lagos Zone…

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NCDMB Donates Multi-Million Naira Vocational Centre to University of Ibadan

ADEOLA YUSUF

Wabote Harps on Technical Education, describes completion, handing over of facility as an important milestone in Nigerian content development   The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Friday handed over the University of Ibadan Vocational School which it constructed in line with its capacity-building mandate and the Nigerian Content 10-year strategic roadmap. Handing over the facility to the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Kayode Adebowale, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote described the completion and handing over of the facility as an important milestone…

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U-TURN: Buhari Awards Tompolo Multi-Billion Pipeline Protection Contracts

Efe Wellington

Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, reverses self as Nigeria’s loss to crude theft surpasses $40 million every 24 hours   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has awarded the former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, a pipeline surveillance contract. Platforms Africa reports that this came as the Nigeria’s losses to oil theft surpasses $40 milliin every 24 hours. Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan,…

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