This was the major outcome of a crucial security meeting convened by the Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, in Abuja on Monday
Browsing: Governor Samuel Ortom
The protesters called on the Presidency to bring the culprits to book
He said the downsizing of the workforce was the panacea to the high wage bill.
Fayose said this in a statement on Monday
Malu, Chief of Army Staff between 1999 and 2001, died on October 9 in Cairo, Egypt, after a protracted illness
The governor stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.
Addressing State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ortom said it was wrong for the group to make Benue State ungovernable because of the Act, which would be effective from November 1
The information was in a statement by Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Anthony Ijohor, in Makurdi
Ortom said: “A worker deserves his wages, but the Benue Government has not been able to fulfill that obligation.
Ortom, who spoke at a meeting with Benue State Council of Chiefs, also restated government’s readiness to protect the rights of Nigerians resident in the state, irrespective of their ethnic backgrounds
Ortom during the visit witnessed the burial of the Retired Maj. Lawrence Ugbo, a former Peoples Democratic Party chairman in the state who was killed and burnt inside his car during the crisis in the early hours of Wednesday.
Moro, a top member of the Peoples Democratic Party from Benue State, made this assertion in Abuja while reacting to the warning strike embarked upon by workers in the state public service.
Ortom told newsmen at the Benue People’s House in Makurdi that the agency had proven over the years to be ineffective and needed to step up.
Ortom said this when the Minister of State for the Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, paid him a courtesy visit in Makurdi on Monday.
The warning strike is the first step by the workers who have declared a labour dispute with the state government over the non-payment of salaries.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Boniface Ortese, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Wednesday that over 2,769 households were also affected
Ortom said the empty International Market and the Presidential Building at Agan Toll Gate would become camps for IDPs, pending when water level would subside.
Alhaji Mustapha Wali, a member of the forum, announced the development in Makurdi, when the group paid a courtesy call on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.
Ortom, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, was reacting to a report circulated on the social and conventional media, which quoted him as making that remark.
Bashir Makama, the Commissioner of Police in Benue State, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Makurdi that Adyorough was assassinated in the early hours of Sunday.