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Over three million applicants have enrolled for about 400,000 job spaces in the third batch of the Federal Government’s N-Power programme. The candidates applied for the programme through the online portal of the scheme which was opened for applications on June 26, 2020. N-Power is one of the National Social Investment Programmes
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The National Assembly has suspended the recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians for the Special Public Works programme under the National Directorate of Employment to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement was made on Wednesday July 1 after some lawmakers engaged in a shouting match with Minister of State for Labour
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The Federal Government has announced the resumption of domestic flights in the country. In a statement released on Wednesday, July 1, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said the Abuja and Lagos airports will resume domestic operations on July 8, while the Kano, Port Harcourt, Owerri, and Maiduguri airports would
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The Chairman of the Lagos State branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musliu Akinsanya ( MC Oluomo) has made the 20-man list for the selection of beneficiaries for the Federal Government's 774,000 jobs across all the Local Governments in the country. The initiative, which is being
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The Federal Government on Thursday said it would announce the date for the reopening of Nigeria’s airports to commercial flight operations next week. It stated that the airports remained shut as some gaps in the aviation restart process had not been closed. The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, disclosed this
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The federal government has agreed to pay hazard and inducement allowance worth about N4.5 billion to 31 teaching hospitals and federal medical centres in Nigeria. Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, disclosed this after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja on Friday. The meeting was
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian local scientists and researchers to come up with a cure for COVID-19. The president made the call in his media address to the nation on Friday. According to Buhari, Nigeria has to look inward to find a solution to the pandemic. “We have begun to look inward
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President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to speak to Nigerians in a broadcast tomorrow at 7.00 am. The broadcast is to commemorate the June 12 Democracy Day celebration billed for tomorrow. READ: BREAKING: Governors’ Forum Declare Clamp Down On Rape The information was passed in a tweet by the Special Assistant to the President
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The Federal Government has approved two months hazard allowance for health workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a meeting between representatives of the Federal Government and Health Professional Associations, the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said the hazard allowance for the months of April and May would
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The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 12 as public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government congratulated all Nigerians at home and abroad for the entrenchment of democratic rule in the
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