The Vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State said both the Federal Government and striking members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were both losers in the ongoing over four months old industrial action embarked upon by the university lecturers.

BARRING last-minute hitches, the 13-man Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue will submit its report on or before next Monday, December 2.

The cashless policy started in Lagos January 2012, but it is yet a policy in most major public institutions. A good example is the Lagos state hospitals. A visit to any of these general hospitals will reveal little or no attempt on the part of the management to promote electronic payment.

Ex-international and one time Africa’s Footballer Of The Year, Victor Ikpeba has backed Stephen Keshi’s decision to give members of the Golden Eaglets a chance to play for the Super Eagles but says that “any such player must be playing club football.”

By Paul Bassey  Telephone rings……. Chief Effiong……Hello who is this? Alhaji Maigari…If I am on to Chief Effiong, I am Aminu Maigari the President of the NFF Chief Effiong….Ah interesting how are you? You are the one who wants to teach me how to manage my son? When I bought him his first ball when […]

The N464 trillion needed for infrastructures over the the next five years in the country can’t be provided by banks alone, said Chibundu Edozie, Group Deputy Managing Director, BGL Plc.

THE 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based and Intimate Partner Violence, beginning on November 25 and ending on December 10, International Human Rights day, offers an opportunity to renew the global commitment to free women and girls from violence.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, weekend, told a World Pension Summit, that Pension assets in Nigeria had hit N3.73 trillion, with over 5.8 million contributors.

The former Director-General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Dr Amos Adamu, has called on the Nige ria Football Federation (NFF) to invest in the excellent performance of the Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Keshi, who has showed his great coaching potential to the world.

A former Director, Airworthiness and Operation Standard, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, and former Rector , Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, and former Director, Air Transport Bureau of International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, in Montreal, Canada, Mrs Folasade Odutola has said the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, does not need to ground an airline in order to carry out operational audit on the airline.

OPERATIVES of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Delta, have arrested three suspected illegal oil bunkerers and gun runners in oil-rich Ugborodo community, in Warri South-West Local Government Area, along with the community’s spiritual head, for allegedly parading himself as a traditional ruler.

November 12 of every year is a day to remember in the annals of Edo developmental metamorphosis as that was the day light flushed darkness away from the State.

By Ochereome Nnanna THE much awaited governorship election in AnambraState has come, though it has not quite gone. The election was declared by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, as “inconclusive”. Chief William Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, established a commanding lead with 174,710 votes, with […]

Human rights or in its easily understood form, are those inalienable fundamental rights that a person (or organisation) is inherently entitled to either as a human or corporate being. Locally and internationally, human rights as a doctrine is a cornerstone of public policy and good governance.

With barely 48 hours to the award ceremony of the second edition of the Nigerian Sports Award, dignitaries and top shots in the Nigerian Sports circuit have been confirming their attendance for the event.