THE Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is acknowledged globally as the oil that lubricates the engine of socioeconomic transformation of any nation. The sector is strategically positioned to create up to 80 percent of jobs, improve per capita income and contribute significantly to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

“If there is anything a child needs in life, these are the basics, and if we should have these qualities in the leaders of tomorrow, I think this nation will be the better of.” She said. Guests at the event were entertained with cultural dance, musical display and others fun packed activities by the pupils of the school.

Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) said it has disbursed N267 million under the Employees Compensation Act, ECA, in the last four years. Speaking on the performance of the programme at the 58th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) in Lagos , Managing Director of NSITF, Alhaji Umar Munir, said that the amount disbursed so far covered 2,800 employees, who have suffered one degree of injury or the other in the line of duty.

The new Managing Director of Lafarge Africa Plc has assured that the just concluded merger of Lafarge Group and Holcim will hugely benefit the Nigerian economy, the company’s shareholders, host communities and other stakeholders. These benefits range from more taxes to the government, high returns on investment to shareholders and more corporate social responsibility in host communities.

The Gabonese government have denied claims that Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was paid €3.5m (£2.5m) to visit the country to take part in a ceremony at one of the venues for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. Messi, who has yet to link up with his Barcelona team-mates on their US tour, was pictured at the weekend in the country’s second largest city, Port-Gentil, where he helped to lay one of the first stones for the planned 40,000-capacity venue.

More than 40 people were feared dead in Gombe city, northeast Nigeria, on Wednesday after a series of bomb blasts ripped through two bus stations, a rescue worker and a witness told AFP.

TO promote its mission to empower youths through acquisition of skills and knowledge for the world of work, Yaba College of Technology’s (YABATECH), International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, (UNEVOC) has hosted students of YABATECH on the first World Youth Skills Day, in order to address youth unemployment and enhance self-employment.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Washington DC reiterated his commitment to crush Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria. The president who addressed a joint session of United States Institute for Peace (USIP), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Atlantic Council, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute […]

A Delta State High Court sitting in Agbor, yesterday, adjourned till July 29 for hearing in the case by Host Oil Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCOM, against the Delta State Government over an alleged N225 billion debt owed the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.

ENUGU State governor Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, yesterday inaugurated an eleven-man Stakeholders Committee on Staff Audit and Biometric data capturing of the existing 17 local government councils in the State with a view to block leakages and checkmate ghost workers.