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Lack Of TRCN Registration: 300,000 Teachers May Miss New Welfare Package
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Lack Of TRCN Registration: 300,000 Teachers May Miss New Welfare Package

Classroom No fewer than 300,000 teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the country may miss benefiting from the new welfare package the government wants to implement for teachers in its payroll. Findings by the Vanguard revealed that the development is because such teachers are not licensed, certificated and registered by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN.It was gathered that the government has made registration with the TRCN a condition for benefiting from the scheme. From investigation by our correspondent, the TRCN, which conducts Professional Qualifying Examination, PQE, four times a year, has so far registered and licensed about 800,000 teachers out of the about 1.1 million teachers in public schools. Speaking on the matter, Registrar of the ...
Traditional Worshippers Decry Open Display Of Alaafin’s Dead Body
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Traditional Worshippers Decry Open Display Of Alaafin’s Dead Body

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III Traditional worshippers have decried the open display of the body of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, during the Muslim prayer session, which they said, was against the tenets of traditional respect for a deceased king. They also urged Yoruba monarchs to promote traditional religion, which is the basis of their crowns. The traditionalists said the late Oba Adeyemi never minced words in condemning the open display of any Yoruba Oba’s remains for any purpose while he was alive and even went against an attempt by the Ogun State House of Assembly to alter the state’s burial rites procedure to weaken the power of traditional religion and practitioners in taking the needed roles at the burial rites of any deceased king. In a statem...
Mothers’ Sunday: Mrs Soludo Asks Mothers To Refocus On Sound Child Rasing, Moral Institution
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Mothers’ Sunday: Mrs Soludo Asks Mothers To Refocus On Sound Child Rasing, Moral Institution

Nonye Soludo The wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo has asked mothers to refocus on bringing the best out of their children by being the right reflection of morality and hard work. Mrs Soludo who made the appeal in a message to commemorate the 2022 Mothers' Sunday of the Catholic Church, explained that as co-builders of the home, mothers have a great deal to cover in terms of what their children learn from them and their associations. According to the Governor's wife, "as a mother of six successful children, I understand, first hand, the immense task of raising a child that remains conscious of what is right or wrong. Of his or her society, moral expectations, and how to react to issues around them. Mothers have an enormous duty to mould the best children tha...
Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi
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Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi

Ramond Dokpesi Former Vice President and leading presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he was never a party to the northern consensus arrangement. The Technical Committee for the Actualization of Atiku Abubakar’s Presidency in 2023, in a statement by its chairman, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, said the former VP did not subject himself to any purported consensus process and thus not bound by any of the recommendations and conclusions of the report. “As an avowed nationalist, Waziri Atiku Abubakar strongly believes that Nigeria has never been as divided as it is today. “He strongly believes that any ‘consensus’ arrangement premised on any regional, zonal, ethno-religious, and/or sectional gang-up will further deepen and widen this divide, and worsen the woun...
Tinubu, Umahi, Mohammed, Ngige, Other Attend Aisha Buhari’s Iftar Dinner
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Tinubu, Umahi, Mohammed, Ngige, Other Attend Aisha Buhari’s Iftar Dinner

Aisha Buhari National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State; Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, are among the presidential aspirants at the Iftar dinner hosted by the First Lady, Dr. Aisha Buhari. The dinner took place at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that the First Lady had sent out invitation to all presidential aspirants of different political parties, ministers, governors and some other personalities for Ramadan Iftar dinner on Saturday. Read Also: 2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid As early as 6:20p.m., some of the expected dignitaries had started entering the venue of the event, which w...
Alaafin Adeyemi: Ortom, Obaseki Condole With Makinde
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Alaafin Adeyemi: Ortom, Obaseki Condole With Makinde

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom on Saturday commiserated with the government and people of Oyo State over the transition to the great beyond of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. In a condolence message to his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, the governor described the late Oyo monarch as a courageous king who did everything possible to preserve the culture and tradition of his people. Ortom noted that Oba Adeyemi’s reign witnessed peace and unity of the kingdom, which created the enabling environment for growth and development, not just in Oyo State but also in Nigeria. The governor lamented that the late monarch departed at a time when his wisdom and wealth of expe...
2023: Lamido Slams PDP Elders Over Endorsement Of Saraki, Bala As Consensus Candidates
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2023: Lamido Slams PDP Elders Over Endorsement Of Saraki, Bala As Consensus Candidates

PDP Former Governor of Jigawa State and one of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in the country, Sule Lamido, has slammed northern elders over the recent endorsement of two aspirants as the party’s consensus presidential candidates. Lamido stated this in a statement, which he personally signed and issued to Daily Post on Saturday. He was reacting to the outcome of a northern leaders’ meeting in Minna, Niger State, where former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed were shortlisted as northern consensus candidates. In a communique signed by former Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, the northern leaders said the election of Saraki and Bala Mohammed was arrived at based on certain criteria adopt...
Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Dies at 83
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Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Dies at 83

Lamidi-Olayiwola-Adeyemi-III The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has passed on. He was 83 years old. The top Yoruba monarch died in the late hours of Friday, according to palace officials. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. The late Alaafin’s first son, Prince ‘Tunde, and other children had received the monarch’s remains at Idi-Igba, Oyo town early Saturday morning. Palace sources confirmed that traditional rites had begun without giving details about his burial arrangement yet. Adeyemi ruled for 52 years before his demise, making him the longest-reigning Alaafin. By tradition, the head of the Oyomesi, Basorun of Oyo, High Chief Yusuf Ayoola, would take over pending the appointment of a new Alaafin. Read Also: Buhar...
2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid
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2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid

Yemi Osinbajo Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says he has garnered enough experience to lead Nigeria as the president come 2023. He made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan during a parley with Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Osinbajo had visited Ibadan to pay homage to the Olubadan of Ibadanland and meet with the delegates. The vice president had on April 11 declared his intention to seek his party’s ticket to run for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo said that everything he learnt as vice president and acting president had prepared him for the office. “I have served in the Federal Government of Nigeria for the past seven years. And I have been involv...
Resign, Contest On APC Ticket If You’re Popular, Wike Challenges Umahi
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Resign, Contest On APC Ticket If You’re Popular, Wike Challenges Umahi

Dave Umahi The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party not to allow any aspirant who will later defect with the party’s mandate to emerge as its presidential candidate. Wike, a PDP presidential aspirant urged party delegates to vote for him during the party’s convention, because he had no tendency to defect with the party’s mandate to another party. The Rivers State governor stated this while wooing PDP leaders and delegates in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state on Friday. A statement was also made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri. The Governor referred to the defection of some governors, including that of Ebonyi State, David Umahi and lawmakers from the PDP to ruling All Progressives Congress when he sa...