More than 30 advertising materials meant to celebrate this year’s Easter were disapproved for non-compliance to the nation’s advertising code, the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has said. Making the disclosure at the Advertising Standards Panel (ASP) stakeholders’ forum, held in Lagos, the Director-General of ARCON, Dr Lekan...
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade, has said the outstanding performance of Governor Seyi Makinde in the last five years was the major reason Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates won all the 33 local government seats. He made this known in a statement shortly after the Chairman, Oyo State Independent Electoral Co...
Chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos, Mr Fuad Atanda-Lawal, has approved 100 per cent pay rise for the medical doctors attached to all the primary health centres in the council area. Atanda-Lawal made the announcement yesterday after extensive deliberations on the need to ensure that all residents of the co...
•Nurses An average nurse working at the local government, state, or national level gets a monthly salary of about N135,000, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) Registrar, Faruk Abubakar, has said. Abubakar said some nurses get up to N200,000 monthly salary, depending on where they work. The NMCN registrar said this while appear...
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with members of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN) at the State House, Abuja. The ongoing meeting between the president and council is coming just about 48 hours after The Frontier reported that the President of SCSN, Sheikh Abdur-Rasheed Hadiyyatullah, expressed regrets for supporting t...
•Shettima and Tinubu The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has alleged that even though it supported the Muslim-Muslim ticket and mobilised for the success of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the presidential election, the government has allegedly neglected them. Speaking in an interview, Secretary of the SCSN, Dr Nafiu Baba Ahm...
•Bawa Naibi Uneasy calm pervades residents of Suleja, a commercial city in Niger State bordering the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and dominated by non-indigenous Nigerlites as the Chairman, Alhaji Isiyaku Bawa Naibi has vowed to enforce a fraction of the Shariah law forbidding sales and consumption of alcohol. The development is comi...
•Yahaya Bello Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has dissolved the State Executive Council and has announced the appointment of caretaker chairmen for the 21 local government councils across the state. Governor Bello deposed the Ohimege Igu, the paramount ruler of Koton Karfe and two other first class chiefs, just as he also appointed the Ohinoy...
•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•FEC meeting Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been taken off from the Integrated Personnel Payment System (IPPIS). The approval for the exemption was given by The Federal Executive Council at its meeting today at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this while br...