Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari

University of Ibadan Student Wins NCDMB Essay Competition N1m Prize

Efe Wellington

A second year Political Science student of the University of Ibadan, Mr. Ayotomiwa Elesho has won N1 million prize in the 6th Annual National Undergraduate Essay Competition sponsored by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). Winners of the essay competition were celebrated at the award ceremony held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Wednesday. The essay by the 23-year-old was adjudged the best amongst over 2000 entries submitted by undergraduates who must be within their first and 2nd year in the university. Victor Sunday, a 200level Law student of…

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Nigerian Police Authorities Pocket Officers’ Six Month-Salary Arrears – Report

Ganiyu Amodu

The Police authorities, after an exclusive story published by Platforms Africa last November, announced increament in the take home for men of the force.   Some policemen across the country have expressed their displeasure over how the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force refused to pay up the six months’ arrears of the new salary structure approved by President Muhammadu Buhari for the force since 2021. The Police authorities, after an exclusive story published by Platforms Africa last November, announced increament in the take home for men of the force.…

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Buhari Appoints Interim Administrator For Amnesty Program

ADEOLA YUSUF

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd) as Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Program. The appointee hails from Odoni in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, and was admitted to the Nigerian Defence Academy as part of 29th Regular Combatant Course. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in 1983. He held several command and staff appointments in the course of his successful military career. He retired in December 2017. READ ALSO Court Stops Sports Minister, Pinnick From Conducting NFF Executive Election Alaafin: Ex-Bishop…

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You Are Going To Win, Buhari Assures Tinubu, Shettima

Aliyu Aliyu

. President To Shettima: I will Respond To You Whem I am Handing Over To You and your boss President Muhammadu Buhari struck a chord of humour on Wednesday at the State House while responding to a flowery speech by Senator Kashim Shettima, the Running Mate and Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, saying, “I will respond to your speech when I am handing over to you and your boss. God willing, you are going to win.”  President Buhari, who received the VP Candidate shortly after he was…

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N1m For Professor As Buhari’s Intervention May Fetch ASUU 100% Pay Rise

Abibat Babalola

There are strong indications that striking university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic State Union of Universities will get a 100 per cent pay rise, The Nation is reporting. This will mean that a professor who collects N500,000 will now go home with a million naira monthly if the plan scales through. According to The Nation, the development followed the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis. READ ALSO: JUST IN: 79,000 Staff, Investment For Review As Buhari Unveils “new NNPC” Super Falcons Lose On Penalties…

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Osinbajo Clashes with APC, Tinubu Over Muslim-Muslim Ticket

Precious Ibekwe

“He should resign, exit party to truly show the decision does not sit well with him.”   The eventual adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the presidential flagbearer of the ruling APC has ignited a new wave of tension in the party as the country’s most senior Christian official, the Vice President is said to have warned that such an adoption would not augur well both for the party and the nation. Lagos-based Vanguard newspaper, which reported this quoted a source in the Presidency to have disclosed yesterday that the…

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National grid: SERAP sues Buhari over missing N11trn electricity fund

Ganiyu Amodu

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over failure to probe alleged missing N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply since 1999 believed to have been stolen, mismanaged or diverted into private pockets. Nigerian cities have repeatedly been plunged into darkness as the electricity grid has reportedly collapsed at least three times in five months, and 130 times in seven years. According to the World Bank, epileptic power supply costs businesses in Nigeria about $29 billion yearly. Joined in the suit as Respondent is Mr…

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Buhari orders NITDA to subject IPPIS, UTAS, U3PS to integrity test

Abibat Babalola

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to integrity test. Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the non teaching staff Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, have lamented that they were being shortchanged in their salary payment since the government introduced IPPIS as…

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Buhari approves 2022 disbursement proposals for tertiary institutions

Abibat Babalola

Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the 2022 financial disbursement proposals for public tertiary institutions. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, made this known while receiving in his office, representatives of the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) in Abuja. Echono said a meeting has been scheduled for next week with the representatives of the benefiting institutions to discuss further on the proposed reforms that have been approved for implementation ahead of the financial disbursement. READ ALSO: ASUU Strike: Nigeria Has…

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EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Appoints Kinsman, Yar’Adua’s brother, REA’s Board Chair

ADEOLA YUSUF

Platforms Africa obtains and publishes letter of appointment for Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and ex-Lt. Col in charge of records at the army secretary’s office at the military headquarters, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua, younger brother to late Umar Musa Yar’Adua as the chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA’s) Board of Governors. In a letter exclusively sighted by Platforms Africa, Nebeolisa Anako, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power stated that the appointment takes effect from January 17, 2022…

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