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.
