EVEN as the cases of industrial accidents and casualty rate in workplaces across the country have assumed a frightening dimension and employers seeming lack of concern for employees’ safety and health at workplaces , the ministry of labour and productivity is exploring ways of addressing risks and hazardous situations in work environments in the country.

Following the public outcry over the failure of the Senate to inaugurate Chief Alphonsus Igbeke despite the ruling by the Court of Appeal in Enugu, the Senate, yesterday, pledged to swear in Igbeke next Tuesday.

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Professor Osayuki Oshodi, yesterday said the nation urgently required clean and reliable energy services to meet its long term needs for sustainable industrial development.

THERE were strong indications, yesterday, that barring any last minute changes, a replacement for Prince Vincent Eze Ogbulafor who resigned last week as National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, would emerge next Tuesday.

A session with Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, is like having a lecture on policing. The police boss will so entrap his listeners to a point where you may not know when you will shout kudos for the police force.

In what appeared to be a drift from the old order of celebrating people only when they are dead, the gathering of who is who in the art and culture industry and the lots of striking testimonials from culture workers about Toyin Akinosho’s love and passions for culture and culture promotion spoke volumes of the level of satisfying services that he has rendered to the culture clime.

A FEDERAL High court sitting in Lagos has dissolved the state executive council of the Lagos State Butchers Association and ordered that a fresh election be conducted within the next 14 days.

General Officer Commanding, GOC, 3 Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Saleh Maina, has critically examined the involvement of the military in internal conflict management across the country, concluding that they have largely succeeded in the task.

I can foresee that in the next five years, these universities would have matured to the level of say OAU or UI. This is a temporary problem that I think with time, we will over come. The standard is neither falling nor rising depending on the parameter you want to consider. I think we have a lot to do in terms of quality control.

INDUSTRIAL Training Fund, ITF has been organising series of training and human capital development programmes for employees, to enable perform optimally, as part of the Fund’s contribution to the development of the real sector of the economy.