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Landmark Judgment: National Industrial Court dismisses case against Govt Agencies

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In a recent ground-breaking Judgment, the National Industrial Court dismissed the case brought by a retired civil servant, Bilkisu Sanusi against various government agencies, including the Budget Office of the Federation, the Accountant General of the Federation, and the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation. Justice O. O. Oyewumi presided over the case and condemned the unprofessional conduct and misleading information presented against the mentioned agencies, emphasizing that the complainant’s actions constituted gross misconduct. The judgment was delivered today, February 9, 2024 virtually, marking a significant development…

More Govt agencies set to implement Court of Appeal judgement on jurisdictions of labour unions

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Following the landmark judgement recently issued by the Court of Appeal on the jurisdiction of labour unions in the country, more government agencies are set to implement the provisions of the judgement.   The latest among such agencies is the Industrial Training Fund (ITF). Abdullahi Ibrahim Tsoho, Head of Industrial Relations, Staff Welfare, and Career Development at the ITF, revealed this today during a visit to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).   Abdullahi Tsoho, who led a delegation from the ITF, stressed that they were in the commission to leverage…

Tinubu dissolves Boards of Govt agencies, Parastatals, Others

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday approved the immediate dissolution of the Governing Boards of all Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies, Institutions, and Government-Owned Companies in the exercise of its Constitutional Powers and in the Public interest.   This is contained in a statement issued by Director , Information in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.   The dissolution does not, however, affected Boards, Commissions and Councils listed in the Third Schedule, Part 1, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of…

NCC commends collaboration among Govt Agencies

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has commended the level of collaboration existing between government agencies which has contributed to a healthy approach to meeting the strategic objectives of different organisations.   Zonal Controller of Enugu Zone of the Commission, Ogbonnna Ugama, who received the leadership of Enugu Chapter of the Association of Heads of Federal Government Establishments (AHFGEs), on behalf of the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta, said such collaboration has assisted the Commission to achieve some of its goals.   Ugama told the AHFGEs delegation,…

2022: N’Assembly proposes N3trn revenue target for Govt agencies ….. vows to reduce budget deficit, borrowings

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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said that revenue generating agencies of government are capable of generating and remitting N3 trillion naira annually to the coffers of the federal government if efforts are made to cut down on wasteful spendings. Lawan made this known in an address delivered to declare open an interactive session “on the need to improve internally generated revenue of the Federal Government of Nigeria and Revenue Projections of the Agencies as Contained In the Appropriation Act 2022.” The meeting was between the Senate Leadership…

Yahaya Bello charges Govt, Private organizations to patronise indigenous contractors … says such gesture will boost local economy

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Kogi State Governor ,Yahaya Bello has urged governments and private organisations to patronize indigenous contractors and engineers asserting that such gesture possesses great ripple benefits to local economy. Governor Bello made this known on Sunday when he paid an unscheduled visit to the project site of the ongoing construction of the Lokoja civic centre where he also expressed satisfaction with the pace and quality of work delivered so far Governor Bello remarked that the civic centre was one amongst the several infrastructural facelift ongoing in the capital city of Lokoja…

Finance Ministry promptly release funds to govt agencies – Sen Jibrin Barau

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Chairman,Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Jibrin Barau has stated that government Ministries, Departments and Agencies have enjoyed prompt release of recurrent and capital overhead funds this year.   He ruled out non-releases by the Federal Ministry of Finance as challenges confronting government parastatals, adding that his Committee has been monitoring the release of funds and he can effectively say, the Ministry has done well.   According to him, he has chaired Committee on Appropriation at the lower legislative Chambers years back, but what he is seeing showed that the present…

Senate urges govt agencies to emulate JAMB Registrar … . as JAMB surpasses revenue target

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The Senate Committee on Basic Education has urged other agencies of government to emulate the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boards, JAMB in revenue generation and remittance. The Chairman of the committee, Senator Akon Eyakenyi (Akwa Ibom south) made the call in her final remarks during the 2021 budget defence of JAMB. According to her JAMB has not only remitted more internally generated revenue, IGR to government coffers, but had also met its corporate social responsibility, CSR to schools and its host community of Bwari, Abuja. “JAMB has demonstrated transparency and…