The Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatisation, NCP, and its implementation arm, Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, are almost at daggers-drawn regarding procedures for the conclusion of processes for the just-concluded sale of 15 power assets.

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…As Edo professionals condemn kidnap…
BENIN—THE bandits who abducted human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Athanasius Ugbome, have reduced their ransom to N100 million and N40 million respectively, sources told Vanguard.

PRESIDENT of Campaign for Democracy, a human rights group, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has advised the Federal Government to comply with the agreement reached between her and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, so that the union would call off the strike, saying that giving piecemeal money would not help to improve the education sector.

As a way of checking incessant building collapses in the country, the Federal Government has ordered certification of blocks and concrete sector of the economy by Standards Organisation of Nigeria under its Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme, MANCAP, for local manufacturers.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun political prowess is famed in and outside Ogun State. While his performance in the provision of infrastructure has been applauded by some stakeholders, the governor’s approach to a second term is increasingly faced with challenges on different fronts.

A Calabar – bound aircraft yesterday avoided disaster when it diverted to Port Harcourt after it failed to land in Calabar after two attempts.

It is often said that a teacher’s reward is in heaven alone. The reason for such a belief is not far-fetched – teachers in this part of the world are some of the most poorly paid professionals, with some graduates being paid as low as N20,000 per month. In spite of this, a recent survey carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) rates the teaching profession as the highest employer of labour in Nigeria, garnering a total of 70, 183 people from the employment market.

In most urban and semi-urban centres in Nigeria, you find waste piles of various sizes and shapes with foul smell oozing from them. These wastes include plastics, papers, clothes, food scraps, bottles, cans etc. Apart from being an eyesore which does great injustice to an otherwise scenic environment, these wastes can migrate and accumulate in ways that pose risk to humans, according to Dr. Charles Reith, the Director of Sustainability and Interim Provost, American University of Nigeria, Yola. In this chat with Vanguard Learning, the Professor of Environmental Science and Entrepreneurship, says there is need to practise controlled waste disposal to safeguard the environment and health. Excerpts:

The naira has weakened further on Wednesday on the back of strong demand for the dollar even as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN pledged that it had no plans to devalue the local currency.