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News reaching Point News reveals that the Nigerian Senate has approved electronic transmission of election results. Point News reports that the Red Chamber has reconsidered the Electoral Act Amendment Bill and empowered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to determine the best mode of transmitting election results. The Red Chamber also approved that all political parties must use the direct primary mode in picking candidates. Updates in our subsequent bulletins.

Five months after assuming office, Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko, says the incremental deployment of the electronic call-up infrastructure for cargo trucks (known as “Eto”), launched in February 2021, has to a large extent resolved the endemic Apapa vehicular gridlock, even as the aurhority keeps reviewing and improving the process. Bello-Koko made this disclosure on a programme, monitored by Point News recently in Lagos. He explained that the NPA is not oblivious to the plight of Apapa residents. He, however added that what remains to be addressed is the gridlock caused by the…

The Lagos State Government has begun the training of another set of 200 agripreneursunder the Lagos Agripreneurship Programme (LAP) and the Graduate Internship Placement Programme (GIPP). Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, who declared the training open at the Agricultural Training Institute, Araga, Epe disclosed that,the programme was a partnership between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment. She also said participants were drawn from the already existing pool of the Graduate Internship Placement Programme (GIPP). Olusanya further stated that in order to drive food security, there is a need to place such vision in…

Delta state Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has expressed condolences to the Kefas family and Taraba state Government on the passing away of former Military Administrator of Delta, Air Commodore Ibrahim Kefas (retd). Kefas 73, who hails from Wukari in Taraba, reportedly died on Friday in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness. Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Olisa Ifeajika in a statementon Saturday in Asaba said governor Okowa also commiserated with Wukari community over the sad incident. He said that late Kefas was a renowned soldier, administrator and politician, who was Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba after…

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has presented a budget sum of N294.5 billion to the State House of Assembly for the 2022 fiscal year. According to the governor the document titled ‘Budget of growth and opportunities,’ is done with his administration’s determination to move the state from poverty to prosperity. This was made known in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor. Governor Makinde stated: “Last year, we presented to you our budget on Continued Consolidation. I had a chance to present to you a report of our accomplishments over the previous budgetary cycle and our…

Seafarers Union under the aegis of the Nigeria Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association has harped on the need for Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA to strengthen its enforcement on cabotage act , saying that much has not been achieved in furtherance to better the lots of Nigerian seafarers. The Trade Union Congress TUC affiliate union , expressed worries over foreign dominance and disparity of indigenous seafarers despite trading in Nigerian waters with the same Certificate of Competence (CoC) . National President of the union, Comrade Bob Yousou who made this known in a statement…

President Muhammadu Buhari has given an order that the ban on Twitter be lifted, if the organisation meets the conditions of the federal government. President Buhari disclosed this in his nationwide broadcast to mark the nation’s October 1 Independence Anniversary on Friday. While the president laments that, recent events haveshown that the social media platform is not just an innocuous platform for information dissemination but for other nefarious activities., he posited that some users have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute criminal activities, propagate fake news, andpromote ethnic and religious sentiments. President Buhari However said the need toaddress…

As Enugu state Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi seeks greater collaboration among ECOWAS member-states, the West African Health Organization (WAHO) said Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre, Enugu, is one of the beneficiaries of its laboratory strengthening programmes funded by the German Government. Speaking during a three-day conference declared open on Monday by the governor in the state, the Director-General of WAHO, Prof. Stanley Okolo, disclosed that the laboratory strengthening programmes, which include those funded by community levy and those funded by their partners are in the spirit of taking ECOWAS to the grassroots. “I hope that Enugu State will maximize the opportunity…

As Nigeria celebrates her 61st independence day,Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu has called for a national rebirth as the way forward to placing the country on the path of greatness.. In his independence message, Shaibu emphasized, resetting what he described as the ‘faulty foundation’ to return the nation to its default position where every region would compete in terms of their natural endowment and not in terms of crisis and insecurity. In his words:”We must reset and rebuild a nation where we see each other as our brothers keepers; a nation where politics is no more played as…

The Federal Executive Council, (FEC) has approved a 14-day paternity leave to make men properly bond with their newborn or adopted baby. Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, made this known at the end of the council’s weekly meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Dr. Yemi-Esan, explained that the paternity leave was approved for men, when their wives are delivered of their new babies. She said the bonding was important to help the newly-born or adopted baby properly bond with the father in the early period. The minister also…