Merging of govt agencies, parastatals’ll increase unemployment-Owie
FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to merge government agencies and parastatals as recommended by the Steve Oronsaye committee in order not to further increase the unemployment rate in the country.
Auto crash: Journalist, pregnant woman,12 others escape death
Enugu State correspondent of The Moment Newspaper, Emma Ugwueze, a pregnant woman and 12 others on board Ifesinachi Mass Transit narrowly escaped death by the whiskers as the bus caught fire in a highway.
Belgium firm to boost free trade zone
A Belgian Group, Buck Consultants International is planning to stimulate and drive investments into Nigerian Free trade zones.
Ebonyi spends N94m on malaria
EBONYI State government has invested N94 million on Roll-back malaria programme in the state, since the inception of Governor Martin Elechi’s administration in 2007.
Bayelsa sports commissioner reads riot act to contractors
Bayelsa State Commissioner for Sports, Hon. Mitema Obordor has warned that government will not tolerate contractors that execute sub standard jobs or abandon their projects after being mobilized. He stated this in a chat with journalists after a facility tour of the Samson Siasia Sports Complex in Yenagoa.
Alimi opposes FRCN, VON, NTA merger
Former Director-General of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Mr. Taiwo Alimi, has condemned the Oronsaye committee’s recommendation on the rationalization and restructuring of federal parastatals that Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Voice of Nigeria, VON, and Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, be merged into one.
