The United Kingdom has announced an opportunity to recruit teachers with one year teaching experience from Nigeria and other countries.The UK department for education made this announcement in a publication on its website. It listed Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, Ukraine and Zimbabwe as countries whose citizens can apply for UK…
Chairwoman of the Nigeria Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Lagos chapter, Gertrude Akhimien, has stressed the need for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) to have access to unlimited grants for business growth and profitability.Ms Akhimien said this during a plenary session at the 2022 Maiden National Conference of MSMEs on Tuesday in Lagos….
Over 4,000 bags of smuggled rice were confiscated among other contraband goods, Customs Comptroller in the Oyo/Osun Area Command said on Wednesday.Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba also noted no fewer than 21 suspects were arrested in 126 seizures of different contrabands around the command in six months. Mr Jaiyeoba gave the rundown in Ibadan, while briefing reporters…
Another allegation of fraud has rocked the Taraba State chapter of the Labour Party weeks after a similar accusation was made in Ogun.On Tuesday, party executives in Taraba passed a vote of no confidence on their chairperson, Esther Gulam. They accused her of misappropriating N21 million in campaign funds. The state organising secretary, Peter Philip,…
Lafarge Africa Plc, a leading Nigerian building solutions company and a member of Holcim, a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, has announced the establishment of its driving institute at its Ashaka Plant in Gombe State, North East Nigeria, as part of its commitment to conducting business in a safe and healthy manner…
In its latest COVID-19 health guideline for the aviation industry, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has cancelled the compulsory COVID-19 test regardless of vaccination status. In a memo signed by NCAA director-general Musa Nuhu, the federal government noted that because the COVID-19 pandemic “has been persistently rare in Nigeria and most of the rest…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it seized unregistered/expired aphrodisiacs and other drugs in Kaduna. The agency made the seizures during a raid on 26 shops at the Sabon Gari market in Zaria LGA on Monday. The items seized included microgynon (drugs meant to be distributed free to IDPs…
Governor Ademola Adeleke says his administration will ensure mining and gold companies pay their debts to Osun. Mr Adeleke disclosed this on the sideline of the inauguration of the solid mineral sector committee in Osogbo. He said Osun had no record of any payment made by Segilola and other mining companies. The governor on Monday,…
Olusegun Obasanjo, erstwhile Nigerian president, says no amount of threat can dissuade him from his choice of candidate for the 2023 presidential election. “I have shed my blood for this country. I have gone to prison for this country. So, what are you going to frighten or threaten me with? if I put my hand…
