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By: Admin President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20 sign the 2018 appropriation bill into law. The weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting for this Wednesday might also not hold due to the budget signing and Public holidays of Friday and Monday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, a t the end of FEC meeting last week informed journalists that President Buhari will sign the 2018 budget this week. The Presidency had received the appropriation bill from the National Assembly on May 25 after it was signed by the lawmakers. President Buhari presented a budget proposal of N8.612 trillion to the lawmakers earlier in 2017 with hopes that the bill would be passed in December of that year, but it took six months for that to happen with the lawmakers accusing ministries, departments, and agencies of frustrating the passage by failing to submit the breakdowns of their budget proposals. The National Assembl...

By: Admin Two year ago, during its 39th meeting, the National Council of Establishment (NCE) resolved that bachelor degree and Higher National Degree (HND) holders should both enter the civil service on Grade Level 08, but federal ministries, departments and agencies are reluctant to implement the resolution except the paramilitary, who have upgraded. Years after the Minna meeting, investigations show many government agencies at the federal and state levels of the civil service, except the paramilitary agencies, are yet to comply with the restoration of parity between graduates of polytechnics and university graduates. The restoration of the parity between graduates of polytechnics and university graduates even in Nigeria’s paramilitary agencies is far from total, as the dichotomy still exists at the terminal point of their careers. Although some of the paramilitary officers confirmed that all the HND holders on level 07 have been upgraded to level 08 with their de...

The Governor of Lagos State is 55! Happy birthday Governor Akinwunmi Ambode! Akinwunmi Ambode was born on 14 June 1963 in Epe, Lagos, into the family of Festus Akinwale Ambode and Christianah Oluleye Ambode. Akinwunmi Ambode is one of ten children of his father Festus Ambode. The now Governor of Lagos State was a civil servant for 27 years and a financial consultant before running for public office as Governor of Lagos State in 2015. Education Akinwunmi Ambode attended St. Jude’s Primary School, Ebutte Meta, Lagos, from 1969-1974, where he sat for the National Common Entrance Examinations. From 1974-81, Ambode, attended Federal Government College, Warri , Delta State . From 1981-1984, he attended University of Lagos where he studied Accounting, graduating at the age of 21. He also has a master's degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, and he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Ambode was awarded the Fulbright Program scholarship for the ...