Varsity workers threaten strike over unpaid allowance
…Gives FG January ending deadline
SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has given the Federal Government up to the end of January, 2013 to pay members unpaid Earned Allowance, to avert a protracted industrial unrest in the nation’s university system.
American healthcare companies ‘bribe’ women to obtain mammograms
IN what has been described as an innovation, hospitals and cancer centers in the United States of America are advertising “gifts” to women who go for mammograms.
Tackling industry reforms for growth profitability
Change, they say, is the only constant thing in life, but accepting change is even more difficult than instituting it. And so it is with current reforms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector, where attempts to introduce changes in line with global developments are being resisted every step of the way.
LUTH restarts IVF programme
AS part of ongoing efforts to provide succour for couples with challenges having babies, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos is restarting its Invitro Fertilisation, IVF, programme this year, Already, work is nearing completion on the space provided for the project as infrastructuture and equipment are on ground.
Project expenditure: NNPC mgt determined to curb excesses
There is definitely apathy from Nigerians towards the management of our economy by government functionaries. Projects executed on the behalf of the government are basically approved to benefit the officials, as against the general interest of the citizens.
Lagos ACN, PDP bicker over Obasanjo’s comments
THE Lagos State chapters of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have disagreed over comments credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the PDP could win Lagos in 2015. While the ACN described Obasanjo’s comment as a joke, the PDP said the former President was in order.
