NSITF reads riot act to employers over employee’s compensation scheme
THERE was no better opportunity than the inaugural Nigeria Social Insurance Trustfund, NSITF/ Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA,organised national workplace safety awareness day/ award ceremony, in Lagos, for NSITF to inform recalcitrant employers that they will hence forth face sanction if they fail to comply with Employee’s Compensation Scheme, ECS, a fall-out of Employee’s Compensation Act, ECA, 2010.
Lagos House warns against hawking of petrol
The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the state’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in conjunction with the Ministry of Information and Strategy to embark on publicity against inherent dangers of buying and hawking petroleum products along road sides.
Why Gowon ceded Bakassi to Cameroun – Ofonagoro
Former Minister of Information, Dr. Walter Ofonagoro, has revealed that one of the major reasons General Yakubu Gowon ceded Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun was to block food and arms from coming into the defunct Republic of Biafra.
Man docked over receiving 4 stolen Toyota Camry cars
A 42 year-old man, Uche Ubah, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate court for receiving four stolen Toyota Camry cars.
Awo vs Achebe: “We Remember Differently”, By Chimamanda Adichie
Chinua Achebe turns 82 this week, in this article Chimamanda Adichie celebrates the renown author and puts her voice to the raging controversy on Achebe’s book ” There Was A Country”
I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. The first, at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, I joined the admiring circle around him. A gentle-faced man in a wheelchair.
Why Gwandu was sacked from NCC
The removal of the Executive Commissioner in charge of Technical Standards of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Bashir Gwandu, may not be unconnected with false allegations over frequency spectrum allocation at the commission, and his alleged links with a group which attempted to indict President Goodluck Jonathan over waivers granted a telecom company acquired by AMCON.
S/Korea supports vision 2020, MDGs success in Nigeria
Determined to make its presence in Nigeria felt, South Korea has pledged to assist Federal Government in the attainment of the goals of reduction of poverty in the country through support to vision 2020 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
No rift between Okonjo-Iweala, Deziani over subsidy payment – Abati
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Wednesday, denied any face-off between Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, and her Petroleum Resources counterpart, Deziani Alison-Madueke, over the payment of petroleum subsidy to oil marketers.
EDO PDP: Inner struggles
Given the bruising defeat the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and its flag bearer, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole gave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate, Major Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) in the July gubernatorial elections, it is not surprising that the PDP would veer into a period of introspection.
OKADA BAN: Mixed blessings in Delta (2)
Footballer, Ikechukwu Anayo, said: “I am a footballer, so the ban is not for somebody like me to exercise; it is not a blessing to me. I have friends who have been displaced because of this ban.
Obasanjo lauds Shema on infrastructural devt
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has commended Governor Shehu Shema of Katsina State for providing the needed infrastructural facilities in the state.
