SON enforcing standards, workers welfare
Recently, more than 200 workers(admin, production and management staff) of Hong Xing Steel Company Limited, at Amuwo- Odofin industrial estate in Lagos, were ordered out of the company’s premise, leaving only security personnel at the gate.
Bama town on lockdown after fresh Islamist violence
Nigerian soldiers blanketed the town of Bama on Wednesday, where residents stayed indoors after coordinated assaults by heavily armed Islamist insurgents killed 55 people.
Spurs keep Chelsea in top-four suspense
Substitute Gylfi Sigurdsson claimed an 80th-minute equaliser to snatch a 2-2 draw for Tottenham Hotspur at Chelsea on Wednesday that prevented their opponents from effectively securing a place in the Champions League.
Bama Killings: Rights group calls for state of emergency in Borno
A human rights organisation, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, has described Tuesday’s attacks on police and military formations in Bama, Borno state by the Boko Haram sect as a direct declaration of war by the sect on the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Works Minister alerts on social media fraudsters
LAGOS—The Minister of Works, Mike Oziegbe Onolememen, has said that fraudsters had opened two facebook accounts in his name, warning that anybody dealing with such conmen were doing so at their own risk.
Unilorin VC asks FG to increase varsity’s funding
ILORIN— The Vice Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Professor Abdluganiyu Ambali has urged the Federal Government to increase its funding of the university, saying that monetary allocations to it were grossly inadequate.
