pensioners protest over unpaid N6.1bn severance benefit
ABUJA—THE umbrella body of steel workers and pensioners in the Country yesterday took their protest to the National Assembly against the non-payment by the Executive of arrears and severance benefits in the sector, amounting to N6.1billion.
Globacom’s N130m products boost Nigeria’09 operations
Globacom Limited, the Official National Supporter and Telecommunications Provider to the FIFA U-17 World Cup, has said seamless and hitch-free telecommunications services will be available to members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and FIFA officials during the tournament.
CDHR begs Delta gov over illegal levies on Okada riders
By Festus Ahon UGHELLI—The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, to urgently intervene on the issue of illegal levies on Okada riders in the state by ordering the total cancellation of such levies before same snowballs into a major crises. This was contained in […]
Lawmakers ask commissioners to produce Sunburn Yacht deal documents
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday subjected three state commissioners and the Chief Executive Officer, Multipurpose Infrastructural Development Company (MIDC), Mr Emmanuel Gobil, to interrogation to clarify the mystery surrounding the procurement as well as ownership of Sunburn Yacht.
Aturu canvasses passage of FoI Bill
Lagos lawyer, Mr Bamidele Aturu, has called on Nigerians to insist on the passage of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill, presently before the National Assembly, noting that lack of access to official held information is a major road block to the war against corruption in the country.
Lagos shuts 7 illegal medicine stores
THE Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods has sealed off seven illegal patent medicine stores, destroying fake drugs worth about N60 million in Mushin Local Government Area of the state.
