The newly elected President of Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS, Mr. Albert Okumagba is  a proven technocrat, an astute financial services professional and a strong advocate of good governance. HE is the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of BGL Plc. He is also the Chairman of BGL Securities Limited, BGL Asset Management Limited, BGL Private […]

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has implored the Federal Government to reverse its decision to sack the striking doctors, warning that the nation could not afford any calamity such sack might cause

Elder statesman and delegate to the just concluded National Conference, Professor Anya O. Anya has urged Nigerians to believe in themselves and in their nation in order to evolve a new Nigeria

Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed allegation by All Progressives Congress, APC, that the Federal Government deployed the military to the state during the June 21 governorship election to assist it in rigging the election in favour of its candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose.

Dabiri-Erewa noted that it is understandable that the Federal Government may have disagreements with the striking doctors, but opting to sack all resident doctors given the present predicament is unjustifiable, insensitive and inconsiderate.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State Branch, weekend dismissed Federal government sack of 16,000 resident doctors across the nation describing it as ‘huge joke’.
Speaking, the Chairman, Dr Tope Ojo vowed that the doctors will not resume talks with the government until sack is unconditionally reversed

LAGOS — Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested members of a notorious trans-border drug trafficking syndicate that specialises in hiding drugs inside engine compartments of cars at the Seme border, Lagos.

ABEOKUTA — The Ogun State Police Command said yesterday that it arrested three students of ICT Polytechnic, Igbesa in Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of the state for allegedly threatening their colleague who refused to join their cult group.

An entrepreneur is a person who makes plans for a business or a piece of work and gets it going. Anyanwuocha (2001) observes that the entrepreneur is the chief co-ordinator, controller and organiser of the production process. The entrepreneur combines other factors of production (land, capital and others) in such a way as to obtain maximum production of goods and services at minimum costs.

SAPELE—EURAFIC Power Limited, the new management of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Ogorode, Sapele, Delta State, has commenced dialogue with ex-workers, whose protest over unpaid salary, last week, paralysed the company’s operations.

THE Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, yesterday, urged that care should be taken not to escalate the Ebola crisis beyond the reality of its occurrence.

Taxation, worldwide, constitutes a major source of revenue to governments for funding their capital and recurrent expenditures.

NATIONAL Youth Service Corps, NYSC, weekend, debunked a media report that the orientation course for prospective corps members deployed to crisis-prone states has been suspended due to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

Following the recovery and discharge of the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient from the isolation centre at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos, facts have emerged as to how the patients are recovering.

HEALTH care workers in Liberia have administered three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors suffering from Ebola, two medical workers in Monrovia told Reuters.