The Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has appointed 136 special assistants. Spokesperson to the governor, Gyang Bere, announced the appointments in a statement on Friday in Jos. The appointments show that eight people were appointed from each of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state. According to Bere, the appointments are the first batch….
President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Cardoso as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for a term of five years at the first instance, pending his confirmation by the Senate. “This directive is in conformity with Section 8 (1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act,…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that a democratic system that promotes insecurity and poverty must be abandoned. Obasanjo spoke in Oyo town on Friday during the inauguration of the rehabilitated 34.8-kilometre Oyo-Iseyin road. The former president said a democracy that nurtures poverty, unemployment and insecurity should be discarded as it only denotes backwardness. In…
