FG may announce new pay for workers May 1
By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS—INDICATIONS emerged, weekend, that a new minimum wage for workers may be announced for workers on May 1, 2010, expected to considerably push up the current wage of N7,500. Organised labour is demanding for what it calls a minimum living wage of N52,200 to enable workers cope with the worsening economic and […]
Ship-owners to sue FG over damaged vessels
HE Indigenous Shipowners Association of Nigeria ISAN, has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court for allegedly failing to issue weather advise and warning to members to enable them secure and safeguard their vessels from the storm that allegedly damaged and washed ashore over a dozen vessels, recently.
20 Policemen to undergo training on bomb detection, others
Commissioner of Police in-charge of Explosive Ordinance Disposal, EOD, Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Chris Olakpe, weekend, announced that 20 officers and men of the unit will be undergoing a special training on bomb detection, neutralisation and post blast analysis to be sponsored by the Police Attache to the Embassy of France.
Jos boils again
OVER 200 people, mostly women and children, were, yesterday, killed in three villages near Shen in Du District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, on reprisal attacks.
Stanley Macebuh, The Guardian’s first MD dies at 67
DR. Stanley Macebuh, The Guardian newspaper’s first managing director, died, Sunday, at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a brief illness. He was rushed to the hospital Saturday afternoon.
THE STANLEY MACEBUH TRANSITION : Macebuh: Cuts above the cut
DR. Stanley Nkwachinekenkwerenneyaemezula Macebuh, who passed on Saturday night, could aptly be tagged the progenitor of what has become known as the intellectual flank of Nigerian journalism. He could not have brought less to a profession in which he inspired many by his profound thoughts and an intellectual fecundity that permeated the media in the past three decades.
