Mr Pius Major, Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, said that the Federal Government will henceforth sanction jetties operating outside the maritime rules.

Dearth of books is a major contributor to the decline in education in the country. The rare sight of books has even created strangeness between books and people.

SEVEN days to the planned strike by organized labour to force the implementation of the N18.000 new minimum wage, religious leaders have described the reluctance of state governors to pay as selfish and insist that governors have the resources to pay the new wage.

NATIONAL Industrial Court, NIC, has challenged stakeholders to sensitise workers on the provisions of the newly amended NIC Act.

Since the Act establishing the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC came into being in 2004 under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the commission has been engaging public attention. As it name implies, EFCC was set up to fight economic and financial crimes which has been denting Nigeria’s international image.

FEDERATION of Informal Workers’ Organizations of Nigeria, FIWON, has called on the Federal Government to immediately ratify and domesticate the Domestic Workers Convention adopted by International Labour Organisation, ILO member countries on June 16, 2011.

Nigeria is set to join the long list of countries offering medical tourism. This fact is becoming a reality going by the level of preparation being put forward for the 2011 West African Healthcare Exhibition and Conference (WAH) being put together by Global Resources & Projects Nigeria Limited

Honorable Kehinde Bamigbetan is the chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, a community adjudged the most populous in Lagos state. Almost three years since assumption in office, the soft spoken journalist-cum- politician told Albert Akpor that his administration place high premium on quality education by providing the necessary aids to learning; which he says, is organic to nation building.

EVERY City has its own trade marks. Allen Avenue and Ayilara are names that provoke emotions and excitements depending on the persons involved.

Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has dismissed the application by Mrs. Alero Jadesimi, a daughter of the First Republic Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, instituted to stop the hearing of a suit that questions her right to allegedly disperse her late father’s assets without her sibling’s consent.

Rivers State Kick Boxing star, Menia Jack, who is the best in his category while fighting in the blue corner yesterday suffered a major set-back in his quest to win gold for the state, as he was knocked-out of the Festival in the elimination bout of the Full-Contact event fought at the Port Harcourt City Hall venue of the competition.

The six- man investigation panel instituted by Governor Rauf Aregbesola to look into the activities of the Bureau of Computer and Information Technology has submitted its report which exposed how a whooping N2.5 billion was misappropriated in the last six years.

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Ebonyi State, Wednesday nabbed a citizen of Niger Republic, Ahmed Said, for peddling fake drugs and violating the ban placed by the agency against hawking of drugs in the streets of Abakaliki.

Skye bank has denied media reports that its Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, was arrested or committed to prison.

Nigerian junior athletes departed for France Tuesday to participate in the IAAF world junior championships starting Thursday in Lille.