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The State and Local Governance Reform Project (SLOGOR) has today trained 65 officers drawn from the National Project Coordinating Unit (NPCU) and the State Project Coordinating Unit (SPCUs) of the six States of the SLOGOR project, on Project Management. SLOGOR is a European Union funded and World Bank managed Project whose Project Development Objective is to Improve Transparency, Accountability and quality in Public Financial Management (PFM). In his opening address, The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mr Ernest Umakhihe, represented by Mr. Joel Adeoye Christopher, buttresses the relevance of the training as one that will help in enhancing the capacity of officials and speeding up the process of implementation, not only of the SLOGOR Project but for the Management of other donor funded projects. Mr. Umakhihe stated that the training provides opportunity for the successful implementation of the project across the participating states, while stres

Jumoke Olasoji   The subject of minimum wage is an hot topic generating views and controversy in the Nigerian media. The topic has generated reactions from across the country as it affect every sector of the economy and almost every resident of the country. On #TVCTHISMORNING, the subject was up for discuss and callers called in for their views. A caller by the name Kennedy from Port-Harcourt suggested that labour should go on strike not for minimum wage but for the outrageous amount politicians collect without justification. Another caller, Comrade Ayo from Osun State stated that labour should agitate higher standard of living, lower cost of living. With this in place, he argued, even fifteen thousand naira minimum wage would be enough. But because we buy basic amenities such as education, transportation, healthcare, housing that are supposed to be supplied by government at such outrageous amount, even hundred thousand naira minimum wage cannot be enough. Mariam from Apap

Jumoke Olasoji In order to understand the activities of any given organisation, body or society, one need to have an idea infact, a clear understanding of the organisation's jargons (terms) to avoid misinformation. As a political blog and site that myREPblog is, we deemed it fit to research some legislative terms as generally accepted and used by the legislative arm of government globally. You can use the search button to locate any term you readily have on your mind which you cant wait to know as this is a long glossary. NB: Glossaries are arranged alphabetically. Here are a number of common legislative terms/jargons frequently used by legislators across the world. ABSENT -- Not present at a session. Absent with leave --not present at a session with consent. Absent without leave-- not present at a session without consent. ACT - - Legislation enacted into law. A bill that has passed both houses of the legislature, been enrolled, ratif

Jumoke Olasoji In a statement signed by its CEO, John Irvine, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions has reacted to the L agos State H ouse of Assembly’s take on the quality of service it renders in the state a s well as validity of its contract with the state government.  The statement issued on Thursday reads: “We have been made aware of statements being attributed to the Lagos State House of Assembly concerning cancellation of our service contract with the Lagos State Government. “We would like to believe that there is some misinterpretation of the statements being circulated, despite our continued efforts in meeting the performance matrices of our valid and subsisting contract. “We will nonetheless continue to fulfill the terms of our service contract in the face of a sustained negative sponsored media campaign, as well as persistent and systematic sabotage of our efforts and our assets. “We remain open to dialogue, levelling the competitive playing field and p