For the nation’s education sector to be competitive and meet global challenges, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, said the incoming administration must vote a minimum 15 per cent budgetary allocation for the sector for robust development.

As Bola Tinubu assumes Nigeria’s presidency today, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has advised him to promptly make public his assets, income, investments, liabilities and interests. He is also charged to impress it on his vice, Kashim Shettima, to toesame line.

The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) has appealed to the president-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu to appoint a seasoned administrator as the Minister of Health to revive the health sector

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has fined former presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, the sum of N40 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29.

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has identified the law regulating interactions among component units and agencies of the state as the major reason for the country’s backwardness.

Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) has vowed to collaborate with Tinubu, to revive the cocoa industry and restore it to its rightful place in the global market.

Federal Government in Abuja, yesterday, urged the incoming administration to strengthen anti-corruption agencies and reform-minded institutions.

The National Democratic Coalition Renewal Group (NADECORG) has warned anti-democratic forces bent on truncating May 29 handover of power to the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to have a rethink.

A socio-political activist and critic, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, has warned those planning to disrupt the May 29 swearing-in ceremony in Abuja, through organised protests to desist from their plans.

The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, yesterday, urged the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to improve on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by working with brilliant minds, noting that any incoming government must strive to do better than the previous.

Eighteen days to the inauguration of the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu, stakeholders have appealed to him to appoint a professional in the sector as substantive Minister of Education. 

The management of CMC Connect LLP, one of the leading perception management and public affairs consulting firms, is set to host public and regulatory affairs practitioners in the private and public sectors to a national discourse in the area of fiscal policy direction for the incoming government.