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A’Ibom outstanding workers to get N1m each
In recognition of their outstanding performance, the best-performing civil servants across all ministries, departments, and parastatals in Akwa Ibom State will each receive N1m.
This reward will be part of the upcoming “ARISE Happy Hour and Evening of Rewards” hosted by Governor Umo Eno on February 6, 2025.
A statement issued by the chairman of the organising committee and Secretary to the State Government, Enobong Uwah, on Wednesday, highlighted that the public servants would be rewarded for their “dedication and excellence.”
The beneficiaries were nominated during the December 2024 ministerial briefings held in the state.
Uwah said, “The 50 winners of the Arise Home Farmers Scheme would receive a N500,000 grant each, while the best civil servants in all MDAs would receive N1m each in recognition of their dedication and excellence.”
In addition to honoring civil servants, Governor Eno will also disburse N300m to 400 trained female youths under the Ibom LED Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme, with each beneficiary receiving N750,000.
Uwah also revealed that the event would feature other awards, including recognition for the best-performing local government areas from Christmas Unplugged 2024. The event will also include a special performance by highlife music icon Flavour.
The statement added, “Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, is set to host an electrifying ARISE Happy Hour and Evening of Rewards, a night of music, recognition, and celebration, featuring a special live performance by Africa’s highlife king, Flavour.”
It emphasised that the event aims to provide top-tier entertainment while showcasing the administration’s commitment to “empowering and rewarding the people of Akwa Ibom for their hard work.”
According to the statement, the governor will also honour individuals and groups who have excelled in their respective fields, with a special focus on female youths, whom the administration considers “the state’s greatest cheerleaders in its support structure.”
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Melvin Ayogu to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria and has sought Senate confirmation for the appointment.
The Special Adviser to Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this in a statement on Wednesday.
Tinubu also sought Senate confirmation for Nwakuche Ndidi as controller-general of the Nigerian Correctional Service.
He said the requests, conveyed in letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, were read during Tuesday’s plenary.
Tinubu had previously nominated Robert Agbide, Ado Wanga, Murtala Sagaley, Urom Eke, and Olayinka Aliyu to the CBN board in February 2024.
However, on February 29, 2024, the senate confirmed four people as members of the board of the CBN after Eke rejected the offer, citing “conflict of interest”.
Tinubu replaced Eke with Ruby Onwudiwe on March 13, 2024; however, a day after, reports circulated that the president withdrew her nomination over political affiliation with the Labour Party, an opposition of the All Progressives Congress.
The decision reportedly followed pressure mounted on the president by members of the APC, as Onwudiwe publicly supported Peter Obi, who contested on the LP platform against Tinubu, at the 2023 presidential elections.
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have arrived the State House, Abuja, to meet with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The legislators who arrived in two coaster buses had been allowed into the President’s office area to wait for the meeting.
Both the reinstated Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Mudashiru Obasa, and the ousted one, Hon Mojisola Miranda, were also sighted in the team.
While Meranda arrived with her colleagues at some minutes past 2pm, Obasa arrived separately at about 2:50pm.
The meeting may not be unconnected with the recent leadership crisis in the State House of Assembly.
It would be recalled that Hon. Obasa was impeached as Speaker by a majority of his colleagues, but he was latter reinstated after the intervention of the political leaders especially the Governor’s Advisory Council, (GAC)
Despite the Speaker’s reinstatement, it was gathered that the bad blood as a result of his impeachment is yet to be over.
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has discribed as “useless” the letter sent by Governor Siminalayi Fubara to the Rivers State House of Assembly, requesting a meeting regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on the state’s political matters.
During a conversation with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, voiced his disapproval, emphasizing that Speaker Martins Amaewhule and other members of the Rivers Assembly are independent individuals who deserve respect.
Wike argued that instead of issuing a public letter to invite the lawmakers, Fubara should have contacted Amaewhule and his team directly by phone to schedule a private meeting at a convenient time.
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