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The Federal Government has approved 25 per cent and 35 per cent of salary increase for civil servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. The Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Mr Emmanuel Njoku, said this on Tuesday in Abuja. “The Federal Government has approved an increase of between 25 per cent and 35 per cent in salary increase for Civil Servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. ” They include Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS), Consolidated Research and Allied Institutions Salary Structure (CONRAISS) and Consolidated Police Salary Structure (CONPOSS). “Others are: Consolidated…
Agency Report The Naira on Tuesday closed the month of April on a good footing as it gained N28.15 at the official market, trading at N1,390.96 to the dollar. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange, a platform that oversees the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), revealed that the gain represented a 1.98 per cent appreciation for Naira. The percentage increase is significant when compared to the previous trading date on Monday, April 29. The local currency experienced about two weeks steady fall by exchanging at N1,419 to a dollar. The success story was replicated in…
Agency Report There is lower funding for mental illness research and fewer mental health services in relative to other healthcare services Dr Titilayo Senbanjo, a Psychiatrist with the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos, says there is disparity in the level of treatment and care people with mental health conditions receive in Nigeria. Senbanjo made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. She said there was huge treatment gap for mental health conditions in the country as mental health services were barely accessible outside the state capitals. According to her, it is…
Agency Report Do step two on WhatsApp because when you are attacked, you put other people at risk and make them vulnerable, Africa’s first Professor of Computer Science, Adenike Osofisan, has advised Nigerians on multiple authentications to prevent them from falling victim to cyberattacks. Osofisan gave the piece of advice in Ibadan on Tuesday at the maiden lecture of the Faculty of Science, Dominican University (DU), Ibadan. Speaking on the topic, “The Monstrous Menace of Cyber Insecurity: Any Remedy for the Society”, she said cybersecurity was everyone’s responsibility. The implications of cyberattacks, she said, were not only financial but inclusive…
By Yetunde Yekini-Oropo We are already distilling various drainage channels and opening links to rivers and stream channels The Ogun Government has warned residents living in flood-prone areas to relocate to safer locations or higher elevations, ahead of looming flood disaster in the state. The Commissioner for Environment, Mr Ola Oresanya, who gave the warning at a news conference on Tuesday in Abeokuta, said the alert was based on the Federal Government’s 2024 flood prediction. According to Oresanya, the federal government had written to about 31 states, including Ogun, informing them of imminent flooding between April and November 2024. The…
By Halimah Olamide Fintech company, Opay, on Tuesday said it has taken steps to comply with the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop onboarding new customers. Opay said as a responsible corporate organisation, it has no objection to whatever regulations being put in place by the regulator to ensure sanity in the financial system. NPO Reported on Monday that the company and others like Kuda were ordered to stop onboarding new customers. In the statement released by the management on Tuesday, the company said, “OPay remains committed to working closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
Police say a 14-year-old boy was killed in a sword attack in Hainault, east London, this morning Five people were injured in total, including two police officers. The other victims are in hospital but are not thought to have life-threatening injuries Police say the 36-year-old suspect was arrested 22 minutes after the first call, after being Tasered. The incident is not being treated as terror-related Police were first called to reports of a vehicle driven into a house shortly before 07:00 BST Ch Supt Bell – speaking to reporters – says the boy’s family are being supported by local specialist…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will launch an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah regardless of truce talks with Hamas. It comes amid ongoing attempts to try to reach an agreement for a ceasefire and hostage releases. But at a meeting of hostages’ relatives, Mr Netanyahu said he would invade “with or without” a deal. His comments follow renewed warnings by the US against a Rafah invasion unless civilians were properly protected. In a phone call with Mr Netanyahu on Sunday, US President Joe Biden “reiterated his clear position” on Rafah, a White House statement said.…
By Halimah Olamide Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have commenced investigation into the 13 suspected oil thieves and a vessel, MT SWEET MIRI, handed over to the Commission by the Nigerian Navy NNS Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos State. This was contained in a statement made available by the Commission. The suspects have been identified as Abu Smith, Pascal Anyafulu, David Ali, Mba Okpanu, Chukuma Friday Obiazi, Miye Victor and Richard Kofi. Others are: Monday Aidenagbon, Dele Olayemi, Boma Robinson, David George, Onos Edemefe and Suleiman Aremu. The vessel and the crew were…
An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says. It has let us map what happened to 16-year-old Nika Shakarami who vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022. Her body was found nine days later. The government claimed she killed herself. We put the report’s allegations to Iran’s government and its Revolutionary Guards. They did not respond. Marked “Highly Confidential”, the report summarises a hearing on Nika’s case held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the security force that…