9% enroll for national ID

Only nine percent of the population of Sokoto State has so far enrolled and got the National Identification Number, the state coordinator, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engineer Garba Balarabe, has disclosed. He also said over 10,000 general multipurpose cards were still unclaimed despite Engineers decry dearth of acceptable standards According to him, having an acceptable engineering standard would help curb incessant building collapse in the country. He said engineering practice relies on borrowed standard from Britain and America 60 years after, adding that the development had created a huge disconnect between what is taught and the actual industry practice. The Nigeria Institute of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE) has stressed the need for an acceptable engineering standard for practitioners.

The chairman, Edo State chapter of the institute, Engineer Okezi Kenneth Otomi, made the remarks at a public lecture in Benin yesterday. Teachers in Kogi State under the auspices Academic Staff Union of Secondary School (ASUSS) have raised concerns over non- payment of salaries by the state government.

Kogi State chairman of ASUSS, Comrade Ranti Mathew Ojo, said in a Ambassador Shuaibu Ahmed Adamu has emerged the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in Bauchi State.

He defeated Mahmood being informed through text messages that their cards were ready.

Balarabe stressed that the federal government had approved the mandatory use of the National Identification Number with full enforcement in January, 2019. He urged government agencies and private organizations to ensure that their workforce and other legal residents are enrolled into the national identity database.

Teachers decry unpaid salaries, poor working conditions

statement yesterday in Lokoja on the occasion of this year’s World Teachers’ Day that teachers in the state were being owed over six months salaries. He also lamented the premature and forced retirement of some teachers from service, thus aggravating the problem of inadequate teachers in schools.

Ahmed emerges NNPP guber candidate

Mai Jama’a Ajiya at the party’s primaries held in Bauchi. Adamu secured 292 votes against Mai Jama’a’s 224 votes and was declared the winner by the party’s election panel chairman, Professor Muhammad K. Aliyu.