Africa’s largest economy, FG ridiculed itself – APC
''However, the federal government has only succeeded in opening itself to ridicule. This is because if ever there was a clear play at oxymoron, this is it: The largest economy with the largest population of the poor, the largest economy with the largest population of unemployed, the largest economy with the largest population of citizens living in darkness, and the largest economy with the worst infrastructure.
PDP govs ask House of Reps to declare seats of 37 defectors vacant, if…
ABUJA — GOVERNORS elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged the leadership of the House of Representatives to urgently declare the seats of the 37 federal lawmakers, who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC, vacant, if they failed to return.
Senate passes N4.7trn Appropriation Bill
ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, passed the 2014 Appropriation Bill of N4,695,190,000,000 into law and advised the executive to implement the budget as passed.
EPILEPTIC POWER: We’re helpless — NERC, operators
Operators in the Nigerian power sector, yesterday, declared that the current epileptic power situation in the country cannot be addressed within the next couple of months, as they are currently handicapped and faced with a lot of challenges.
Don advocates gender policies in varsities
A UNIVERSITY TEACHER and Director, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, Professor Olabisi Aina has called for the introduction of gender policies in Nigerian universities.
NLC shops for new scribe amid politics of exclusion
SInce the internal crisis within the NLC peaked with the purported sack of then General Secretary, Comrade John Odah which the NLC was forced to reverse as a result of the ruling of the National Industrial Court (NIC) and subsequent internal discussion, which saw Comrade Odah properly’ retired, all manners of scheming have been going on as to who becomes the substantive general secretary of the NLC. This edition of Labour Vanguard gives an insight into what has been going on and the plan of the NLC leadership not to settle for the best.
