Available information revealed that THEOBARTH Grant is now set for disbursement. According to the statement credited to one Wiseman, National Publicity Secretary of the body, the payment is expected to start second week of May, 2021. Wiseman added that, the order of payment shows that individuals who registered last year ( 2020 ) would fist be paid and that would be closely followed by NGOs payment. Recall that Theobarth grant started last year with individual registration at N500 per beneficiary. At a point, Theobarth Grant couldn’t cope with individual registration hence, the registration of NGOs to streamlined the process of…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has granted the approval indicating an increase in payment of pension to pensioners under the pension scheme arising from increment in the minimum wage. The Acting Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta, made this known on Friday being 30th April, 2021 in Calabar while briefing newsmen on the development. Ekpo explained that the increment in the payment of the pension, which was with immediate effect, would be backdated to April 18, 2019 when the minimum wage was signed into law. He further added that the affected pensioners will all be paid the arrears and…
All is now set for Nigerian football legends to speak at Sunday Oliseh’s Book launch scheduled to take place on Friday 30th April, 2021 via Zoom Application. The book titled “Audacity To Refuse” as Authored by Prolific Midfielder, Sunday Oliseh, will have the lights of football magician, Jay-Jay Okocha, Emmanuel Amunike, Augustine Eguavoen and Tijani Babangida as speakers. According to the Author, Sunday Oliseh, the event would be streamed live at about 16:00 hour Nigeria’s time and 17:00 hour time for UK. The statement by Sunday Oliseh added that only first 400 participants who first login would be allowed to…
One of Nigerian Humanitarians who is a lawyer by profession, Chief Ogwu James Onoja (SAN) has donated the sum of five hundred and sixty thousand ( N560,000 ) only to subsidise their National Examination Council ( NECO ) fees for fifty six ( 56 ) students. Announcing the donations to the Principals of: Ofante Community High School and Community Grammar School Ejule- Ofante both in Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State on behalf of “Deacon Job & Mrs Omada Onoja Foundation”, Chief Ogwu said, each benefiting student is to get the sum of Ten Thousand ( N10,000 ) only…
Nigerian Rising Rapper, KingKay, has released his new single for the year 2021with a popular trending slang in Nigeria, ” Las, Las ” as the hit track. ” Las, Las ” is a motivational song that talks about life, family, hustle and dreams that is centered on the Mother’s strong faith on his son’s success and also the son’s hunger for success. King Jay is one of the fastest rising rappers from Eastern part of the country, Enugu, “coal city” who is so versatile and always sings about the trending issues. King Jay, is currently under the movement called (NTM)…
Developing Story has emerged how administrative bottleneck or what others call “leadership docility” is denying the new HND students admission into the Institution. According to one of the students who spoke with ourworldgist but pleaded for anonymity, he said, he and many students did ND at the Institution and graduated since 2019 but cannot continue with HND programme at the moment due failure of the school to regularize students ND results on Joint Admission And Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) website. When ourworldgist demanded further explanation how the issue of regularization is affecting them, the student in question responded thus; ” The practice…
An Imam in Gambia identified as Baboucarr Ngum in the satellite town of Wullingkama, Alatentou area has defrauded his fellow Gambian, Ebrima Jarjue and also raped the man’s wife leading to unplanned pregnancy. In a chat with ourworldgist, Ebrima Jarjue said that Baboucarr Ngum took advantage of his wife when he migrated from Gambia in 2019 to Qatar to find a better fortune. When ourworldgist asked Ebrima Jarjue, how it all happen, he narrated thus: ” I left Wullingkama, Alatentou area of Gambia in 2019 to Qatar for a better fortune. Before I left Wullingkama, Alatentou, Imam Baboucarr Ngum, who…
“The nation Nigeria is in dare need of true independent parliament. It appears to me that we have bicameral legislature at the national level made up of senate and House of Representatives just for fun of it and perhaps to fill up the offices to fulfil all righteousness. The same is true also of the state Houses of Assembly which have all become so impotent in parliamentary duties and responsibilities to Nigerian people. The fundamental duties of parliament the world over are law making and performing oversight functions. Parliament has the duties and responsibilities to screen nominees of the executive.…
As the call for restructuring gathers momentum across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s finest Lawyers, J.S Okutepa ( SAN ) has argued that the problem of Nigeria is not in its inability to restructure but the problem amongst others he identified bad leadership as the major factor affecting Nigeria. J.S Okutepa ( SAN) who added his voice on the subject matter for second time in less than a year made this known on his official Facebook page on Monday 26th April, 2021. According to him, what Nigeria need is not restructuring but system change that has celebrated so…
New has emerged that in furtherance of the Buhari administration’s support for small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic under its Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), payment would be made to the next batch of beneficiaries of the ESP Survival Fund’s Payroll support track and the one-off General MSME Grant of N50,000 by Bank Of Industry as from this week. This development is expected to increase the number of beneficiaries under the Payroll Support track, which has so far benefitted a total of 319,755 Nigerians, while 265,425 Nigerians are beneficiaries under the Artisan and Transport Support track. Out of the 265,425 beneficiaries, there…