Author: Micheal Jegede

Chairman Senate Committee on Environment, Distinguished Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has commended the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) under leadership of Dr. Rufus Ebegba for making greater efforts to secure the health of Nigerians and the environment despite low funding of the agency. According to a release by Gloria Ogbaki, Head, Press and Protocol Unit of NBMA, Ekweremadu gave the commendation when he led the Senate Committee on Environment to visit the agency on an oversight function. Ebegba was appointed the pioneer Director General (DG) of NBMA in 2015 and reappointed in 2019 as a result of his impressive record of…

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Distinguished Senator Victor Umeh, a consummate politician and estate surveyor, believed to be a force to reckon with in the political firmament of Anambra State and Nigeria is 58.   Born on July 19, 1962, Umeh, a man of indefatigable endeavour, joined politics in 1998 as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He teamed up with other eminent Nigerians to form the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2002. Highly respected for his doggedness and tenacity of purpose, the political juggernaut came to limelight on Nigeria’s political sphere in 2004, when he became the national chairman of APGA.…

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President of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, has observed that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has not done anything meaningful to tackle the myriad of problems bedeviling the education sector in the country. Ogirima, a senior lecturer in the Federal College of Education (FCE) Okene, Kogi State, made the observation in an interview, while lamenting the failure of Buhari’s government to fulfill the promise made to COEASU, as part of the understanding and agreement reached before the union suspended its strike in December last year. According to him, any serious-minded government should give top…

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President of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, has disclosed that the union may soon commence another strike action to press home its demands from the Federal Government (FG). Ogirima made the disclosure in an interview while commenting on the five-day warning strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU). According to Ogirima, COEASU may have no option than to down tools, due to FG’s failure to fulfill the promise made to the union, which prompted it to suspend the strike action embarked upon for over two…

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