May 1; workers day was an opportunity for union leaders to state the views of workers on a number of issues. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress did not fall short of this expectation.

The Nigeria Football Federation and world –renown sportswear company, Adidas will on Thursday in Abuja sign an improved contract that will better benefit Nigeria football.

The team leading Qatar’s bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup announced plans to build three futuristic carbon-neutral stadiums in the event the bid is successful—all air-conditioned to counter the emirate’s searing summer heat and all able to be reconfigured and even reassembled elsewhere, including in other countries, after the event.

Mr. Billy Harry, is the President, South-South Chambers of Commerce(SSCC), Chairman, Oil & Gas Trade Group of NACCIMA. He explains goals of the nascent SSCC, and why 75 per cent of income to be generated by businesses in the oil and gas industries should be reinvested in the economy.

THE leadership of Itsekiri National Youths Council has thanked Minister of Niger Delta Ministry, Elder Godsday Orubebe, for what it described as “a change of heart..”

Senior Special Assistant to the President and National Coordinator, National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, Dr Magnus L Kpakol has assured operators of the three-wheeler commuter vehicles known as KEKE NAPEP of the support of his Agency in their fight to remain relevant in the intra-city commuter service in Abuja.

Below are some of the placards displayed by workers at the rallies.
Justice for telecom workers, Govt respect your citizens, NITEL workers , 25 months salary arrears now!

The Nigerian Institute of Shipping (NIS) has described its pioneer national president and life patron, late Chief Ayodele Afolabi who passed on recently at the age of 80 years as a rare shipping icon who pioneered indigenous manpower development in the nation’s shipping sector.

Cotecna Destination Inspection Limited (CDIL) has scaled up efforts towards adequate training of personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in fulfilment of its agreement signed with the federal government on Destination Inspection (DI) scheme.

Last week, Octogenarian novelist, Timothy Aluko passed on at the age of 91. Today, Vanguard arts in honour to the famous author of One Man, One Matchet publishes an excerpt from his autobiography titled, The Story of My Life.

Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Alhaji Shehu Ladan has said that his administration will support Indigenous Shipowners Association of Nigeria (ISAN) to participate in the lifting of crude oil Ladan disclosed this last Thursday at a reception held in his honour.

THE Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Company (NLNG) has coomenced an audit of the Nigerian
Ship Registry with a view to moving all its vessels to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Registry.

For any one who has been following the drama going on around the nation’s culture house, the National Theatre Iganmu ,specifically as it concerns the attempt to recall the erstwhile General Manager Mallam Kabir Yusuf Yar’ Adua following barrage of letters of complaints to the Presidency coupled with series of protests carried out against him by some members of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees, (AUPCTRE) one would easily conclude that there is no longer room for a come back for the embattled Parastatal Director

TRANSPORT Minister, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, has said that the ministry will soon embark on performance audit of activities of concessionaires to determine their efficiency after four years of their operations, even as the minister requested both the terminal operators and the clearing agents to forward position papers to the ministry.

ASSOCIATION of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Agbor Chapter, has called on the Delta State Government, to fast track the establishment of the Directorate of Medical Laboratory Service in the state Ministry of Health, to boost healthcare delivery system in the state.