Ekiti State Government has declared as null and void, appointment of over 2000 workers employed into the state workforce by former Governor Ayodele Fayose after July 2018 Ekiti Governorship Election. Commissioner for Information, Mr Muyiwa Olumilua, who said the state government’s decision which sacked the workers followed submission of the Report of the Committee set up by the government to review appointments made into the Public Service between 2014 and 2018. The over 2000 workers were employed after Fayose’s Peoples Democratic Party lost the governorship election to All Progressives Congress. Olumilua, who addressed journalists on Thursday on the outcome of…

US President Donald Trump has outlined plans for a new US immigration system designed to favour younger, better educated, English-speaking workers. In an address at the White House, he proposed moving away from the current system that favours applicants with family ties to the US. He said border security would be beefed up and a tougher line taken on asylum seekers. Senior Democrats dismissed his ideas as "dead-on-arrival". They say the proposed new system fails to offer a route to citizenship for so-called "Dreamers" - hundreds of thousands of people brought to the US as children but who still have…

Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said the road ahead of the country’s economy is still rough, urging Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Emefiele said this in Abuja on Wednesday when he was screened by Senate following his nomination for a second term by the President. Members of Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions grilled Emefiele on various issues affecting the economy. Responding to some comments by members of the panel, the CBN boss said there were Nigerians bent on sabotaging the economy by creating loopholes in government policies. He…

For about an hour and 30 minutes on Wednesday, senators debated ways to prevent a poverty-triggered revolution in the country. The debate followed a motion by Mr Chukwuka Utazi (Enugu-PDP). Utazi titled his motion: “Bridging the gap between the haves and the have-not in Nigeria to nip in the bud the seeds of a looming violent revolution.” He traced the issues of kidnapping, armed banditry, insurgency, ritual killings and others bedevilling the country to the menace of poverty ravaging all regions. “Senate recognises that what we are witnessing today is a culmination of long years of neglect of the welfare…