ECS captures 11 million workers
No fewer than 23,482 employers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, regarded as a major step towards implementation of social insurance aimed at, among others, rehabilitation of workers who sustain injuries at work and payment of compensation for permanent disability or death.
25-yr-old girl shot dead in Delta
ASABA—SUSPECTED armed robbers have shot dead a 23-year-old girl, Favour Ogun, after robbing her of N30,000 cash at Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State.
Suit on passage of PIB suffers setback
Lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, struck out an ex parte application praying for an order of mandamus compelling the National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill.
A Uruguay example: ‘The only good addiction is love’
WITH our eyes locked firmly on the Nigerian electoral process, and the forthcoming Presidential elections, on the one hand. And battling the creeping and crippling economic crisis in our country, on the other, we can be forgiven for missing some noteworthy events in our world.
Women, police clash over disputed Prince Erediauwa’s land
BENIN—A mild drama ensued at the site of the disputed land between Edo State governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, and a son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ekpen Erediauwa, yesterday, as protesting women chased away workers at the site at Okoro-Otun Street, GRA, Benin.
Ambode no match for Agbaje, says Lagos PDP chair
LAGOS—THE Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tunji Shelle, has said that there was no way the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akinwunmi Ambode will defeat the PDP’s governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje when both candidate square up on April 11, in the governorship election.
INEC to take delivery of 400,000 PVCs in Lagos
LAGOS—THE Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, in Lagos State has said that it will take delivery of 400, 000 Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, next week, lamenting that a little over 1.8 million PVCs were still uncollected in the state.
PDP Nat’l Vice-Chair blasts non-performing governors
National Vice-Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Kairo Ojuogbo, yesterday, attributed the allegations against the party to those he described as non-performing governors on the party’s platform.
NCAA to fine foregn private aircraft N200m
LAGOS—Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Capt. Muhtar Usman, yesterday, said that the regulatory authority will fine any foreign registered privately operated aircraft the sum of N200 million for falling to regularise their documentation in conformity with the agency’s regulations.
‘Synagogue building collapsed due to foundation overload’
LAGOS—A structural engineer, Mr Saheed Ariyori, yesterday, told the Coroner’s Inquest investigating the September 12, 2014 building collapse at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, that the load imposed on the foundation was far more than what the foundation can bear, hence the collapse.
Business plan key to successful entrepreneurship
Why do many entrepreneurs who have brilliant business ideas never find the capital to transform their ideas into real life businesses? Why do most startup businesses fail to attract the loans and investments they need to grow and succeed?
