May 2025 – Page 20 – Rise Africa

NSITF Partners NIMC To Link Enrollees’ Data To NIN

29.05.2025

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) is partnering the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to integrate workers ‘data registered under the Employees’ Compensation Scheme (ECS) into the national identity database. The partnership is geared towards enhancing efficiency, security and transparency in processing employee claims through their National Identify Number (NIN). The NSITF Managing Director...

Oborevwori: I’ve Served Delta With Infrastructural Benefits, Financial Prudence

29.05.2025

Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has scored himself high in infrastructural development of the state and the management of its finances in the past two years. The governor, accompanied by his Commissioners, Special Advisers and Assistants, who presented his scorecard to members of the state’s House of Assembly in Asaba yesterday said with the benefit...

May 29: Coalition’ll Rescue Nigeria From APC’s Misrule – Atiku

29.05.2025

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said opposition leaders and partners are committed to the future of Nigeria, and assured that they will resist any attempt to turn Nigeria into one-party state. Atiku in a statement as the nation’s prepares to mark her 26 years of uninterrupted democracy, said opposition leaders are building a strong, united...

Tinubu Appoints New UniABUJA, UNN, NAU Governing Council Members

29.05.2025

President Bola Tinubu yesterday appointed new Governing Council members of the University of Abuja (UniABUJA), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka (NAU). He also filled the vacancies in the governing councils of other universities and polytechnics, Colleges of Education. In February, Tinubu dissolved the UniABUJA Governing Council and fired Vice-Chancellor Aisha...

Budget Review: Lagos Assembly Vows To Punish Underperforming MDAs

29.05.2025

Lagos State House of Assembly has said that it will punish Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the state which underperformed in their 2024 budget appropriation. Speaking at the budget performance review of the last quarter of 2024 yesterday, the Chairman House Committee on Economic Planning and Budget, Sa’ad Olumoh, said the Assembly would punish...

Lagos Shines As TRCN Releases Results Of Teachers’ Professional Qualifying Exam

29.05.2025

Teachers in Lagos State have recorded the highest pass rate nationwide, in the 2025 batch A Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in 2025. TRCN’s Director Certification and Licensing Dr. Jacinta Ezeahurukwe who made the announcement on Wednesday in Abuja, noted that of the 8,705 teachers who passed...

Second Anniversary: Mixed Grill Over President’s Performance

29.05.2025

It is a mixed grill as Nigerians examine how far President Bola Tinubu has gone in fulfilling his campaign promises to electorates as his administration marks two years in office today. The President, who took oath of office on May 29, 2023 as Nigeria’s 16th head of state and seventh democratically elected president, made several...

Senate, Reps Pass N1.48trn Rivers Budget For 2nd Reading

29.05.2025

he Senate yesterday passed for the second reading a bill seeking to authorise the issuance of N1.48 trillion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for Rivers State’s 2025 budget. The bill was presented to the chamber for consideration by Senate Leader and Ad hoc Committee on Emergency Rule in Rivers State Chairman, Opeyemi Bamidele, (APC, Ekiti...

JAMB Disowns Reprint Examination Messages In Circulation

29.05.2025

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has distanced itself from the circulating messages via a spoofed version of its 66019 shortcode, asking resit candidates to reprint their examination slips for another exams. JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, a statement yesterday in Abuja, warned candidates not to give heed to the messages which...

Barge operators, maritime workers partner to boost efficiency

29.05.2025

The Barge Operators Association of Nigeria has concluded plans to partner with the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria to boost efficiency in the nation’s maritime sector. In a recent statement by the Head of Media at MWUN, John Ikemefuna, the Vice President of BAON, Hyginus Ndukwe, stated this when the group visited the newly elected...