NSE warns against planned sack of 2000 steel workers
By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) yesterday expressed worry over plans by the Federal Government to sack over 2,000 staff of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) and the Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakpe. In a statement signed by President of NSE, Mr. Kassim Abdul Ali, the society said […]
No Northern agenda over sack of bank MDs, Sanusi insists
LIKE few Nigerians who occupy sensitive public offices, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been in the eye of the storm since he assumed office as Central Bank Governor. For carrying out an unprecedented cleaning of the augean stable in the banking sector, he received an unrelenting press attacks, at least for a while.
Federal roads now death trap, says Imo govt
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State government has described some of the federal roads in the state as “death traps,†and passionately appealed to the Federal Government to urgently reconstruct them to save lives. The Deputy Governor, Dr. Ada Okwuonu, stated this when she played host to members of the Works Committee, House of Representatives, on […]
When’s Next Strike
AFTER more than three months of shutting the universities down, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government have decided to call off this round of strike, an annual ritual that befuddles Nigerians about the issues of university education.
No Nigerian linked to $10m Polymer bribe
GOVERNOR of the Central Bank, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has said that no Nigerian has been mentioned in relation to the $10 million polymer bribery scandal.
FG denies oil marketers import licence
IN what appears a twist to the pursuit of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government has refused to grant import licence to traders and petroleum products marketers.
