Strike: Ekiti labour leaders go spiritual, declare 3-day fasting
In a bid to hasten the payment of their five months salaries owed by the Governor Ayodele Fayose-led administration, Ekiti State workers has taken their case to God, as they declare a three-day fasting and prayer for striking workers in the state.
Retirements: Army, 38 officers in war of words
The Army high command and 38 senior officers retired last week were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over the latter’s mode of disengagement.
Crisis looms in banks over energy sector’s rising bad loans
THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has warned that the rising Non-Performing Loans, NPLs, in the oil and gas sector poses serious threat to stability in the Nigerian banking system. The CBN, in its Financial Stability Report for December 2015, released recently, disclosed that the collapse of crude oil prices and the impact on government revenues and foreign reserves portend risks to banking system stability through increase in default rates, reduction in solvency levels and volatility in exchange rates.
A disaster waiting to happen as Bomadi market women trade on bridge
BOMADI — TRADERS in Bomadi Overside, Bomadi in Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, chased away from their stalls in the community’s motor park to pave way for the construction of an ultra-modern motor park with lock up stalls, some months ago, are dangerously buying and selling on the Bomadi Bridge and highway.
Robbery: 28-yr-old electrician bags death sentence, 4 yrs after
lagos—A 28 year old electrician, Muyil Ahmed was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging after he was found guilty of robbery by an Ikeja High Court at gun point four years ago. Justice Kudirat Jose found Ahmed guilty for robbing his victim, a shop owner to the tune of N180,000 at gun point in Ikorodu area of the state in July 2012.
Esan group pushes Imasuangbon as consensus candidate
AHEAD of the June 18 governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, a social-cultural organization in the state, the Esan Renaissance, yesterday urged APC delegates in Edo Central senatorial district to back Mr. Kenneth Imasuangbon as the consensus candidate of the Esan.
