PRESIDENT of National Industrial Court, NIC, Justice Babatunde Adejumo, has disclosed that no less than four million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand, One Hundred and Ninety-one man-days (4,750,191) were lost to industrial actions in six years in Nigeria.
I KNEW Alhaji Modu Sheriff was not fit for exalted public office when I watched him acting up in December 2006. The event was the flag-off of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, presidential campaign at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. The former Borno State Governor was very central in the campaign activities.
News coming in from the Morocco camp of the Nigerian U-23 camp had it that whenever a foreign based player arrived, there was so much jubilation in camp.
THE Norwegian political scientist, Stein Rokkan, writing on his country’s system, said: “The crucial decisions on economic policy are rarely taken at the parties or in parliaments”.
ABUJA- Police Affairs Minister, Navy-Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd), weekend, noted that the arrest and prosecution of some alleged sponsors of the Boko Haram sect was a testimony of the capabilities of security agencies.
IN a bid to boost the capital base of traders in the Lagos Central Senatorial District of Lagos State, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu recently flagged off a pet project tagged the Petty Traders Empowerment Capital Scheme, PETECS.
ABUJA- ATTEMPTS by Nigeria Import and Export, NEXIM, Bank to obtain a $200 million foreign loan has generated ripples in the House of Representatives.
ABUJA- THE Federal Government has granted 50 legal practitioners free scholarship into the Institute for Oil and Gas Law in Abuja, with a view to enhancing their knowledge on oil spillage litigation.
Nigeria Olympic team coach Austin Eguavoen has maintained his team could still play in the final game of the Olympic qualifiers in Morocco despite their 1-0 loss to the home team.
Exchange rate management is critical to a nation’s economic aspiration as it sets the rate at which goods and services are exchanged with other sovereign states. Countries watch their exchange rates and sometimes it becomes a strong economic and political power for trade and investment negotiations.
TO whom much is given, much is desired, says the Holy Bible. A local adage also notes that when one shows gratitude for a good deed, one is likely to obtain an even better one.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that cross-border holdings of securities amounted to $40.3 trillion as at the end of December 2010.
Former Chairman of the Senate Committee on privatisation, Senator Ayo Arise, has warned that the incessant probe into the sale of some public companies to private investors and the curious recommendation to rescind such sales will be bad for the overall image of Nigeria and may in fact spell doom for its economic recovery.
Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS has exceeded its 2011 revenue target set by the Federal Government; and by the end of the year, the revenue agency is optimistic of also exceeding its own revenue target of N4.378.31 trillion.
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