NLC tasks churches on job creation
WARRI—DELTA State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, called on religious bodies, especially churches, to go beyond the education sector to building of factories that will create jobs for the unemployed youths across the country.
STB McCann risks AAAN sanction over N5bn Airtel account
The N5 billion Airtel Network Limited account taken over by STB Mc-Cann may have landed them in trouble as they are about to face sanction from the umbrella body of advertising agencies; Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria, AAAN, for accepting the account.
PIB: Asiodu seeks immediate re-negotiation of PSCs
A former Chief Economic Adviser and Petroleum Minister, Mr. Philip Asiodu, has called on the Federal Government to immediately commence the re-negotiation of fiscal provisions in deep offshore Production Sharing Contracts, PSC, while the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, is been awaited.
N-Delta students demand N150,000 annual assistance
UGHELLI—COALITION of Niger Delta Students, CONDS, weekend, demanded that students of the region in tertiary institution across the country, who scored a minimum grade point average of 2.5 be paid N150,000 annually by the Ministry of Niger Affairs as Students’ Special Assistance Scheme, SSAS.
A letter to Yushau Shuaib
MY dear Yushau Shuaib, first accept my sincere sympathy for your recent travails. I am happy to glean from your narration syndicated in several newspapers that you were not, after all, fired, but redeployed from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to the Ministry of Information.
Parents lament imposition of N10,000 fee in Benue schools
MAKURDI —Parents and guardians in Benue State are now grumbling over alleged imposition of N10,000 fee on secondary school students now preparing for their mock West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE, in their various schools.
