Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged lecturers at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) to end their seven-month-long sympathy strike with the national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Governor Diri insisted that the sympathy industrial action by lecturers of the university was no longer justifiable as they have been…
The scheduled meeting of 21 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja could not hold, yesterday, despite series of pre-event publicity in the days leading to the parley. The roundtable earlier slated for 2pm at Transcorp Hilton, was for the aspirants to come up with viable strategies to support the APC standard…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Spokesman, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday, berated Delta State Governor, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential Candidate Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, over comments he made to ridicule the APC, presidential running made Kashim Shettima. Reacting to an online report in a tweet monitored by Erevison MediaTV, Keyamo cited the…
…Atiku having sleepless nights over Wike’s demands, interests around ex-VP not disposed to requests…Ayu may resist stepping down—PDP source There are indications that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may have driven into a political cul-de-sac over conditions listed by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and National Chairman of…
Nasir Isa Kwarra, Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), has assured that the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census would be insulated from politics. Kwarra gave the assurance on Monday when he led a team of NPC Federal Commissioners on an advocacy visit to the residence of Chief Edwin Clark in…
Edited By Robinson Erebi All over the world, census remains a key component for national development. Nigeria has a long history of census taking spanning several decades. The National Population Commission is saddled with the responsibility of conducting Population and Housing Census in Nigeria. In 2006 the population of Nigeria was put at 140.43 million…
Geo-Monitors’ report from the field indicate that the Trial Census lasted for about 25days. First 10-12days were used for the training of Enumerators while last 10-13 days were used for building numbering and household listing, validation of EA frames and actual enumeration of persons in selected localities in the six geopolitical zones, namely, North East (Adamawa), North West (Katsina)North Central (Nasarawa), South East (Anambra), South-South (Bayelsa), South West (Ogun).
