AS part of it’s drive to empower young Nigerians and teach them life and vocational skills, Lindy’s Gems Foundation and Maggi, from the stable of Nestle Nigeria Plc, engaged 50 children from selected schools in Lagos. The junior chefs were taught basic cooking skills and the making of balanced meals.

ado-ekiti—Ekiti State Government has commissioned a block of three classrooms worth N10 million donated by the wife of the State Governor, Mrs. Feyisetan Olayemi Fayose to Erelu Adebayo Children Home, Iyin-Ekiti.

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has scrapped sub-degree diploma programmes in the Nigerian University System, with a call on universities running them to begin the process of winding them down.

Ibadan—Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has finally signed the bill on the creation of 35 Local Government Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state which was sent to him by the state legislative arm.

THE Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions has commended the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) for its prompt and regular remittance of its operating surplus into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) in line with the provision of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), 2007.

THE Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, Hon. Jones Chukwudi Onyereri, has called on all institutions to support the effort of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to resolve the huge debt it carries, saying it will help the country get out of the current economic situation.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS—DOCKWORKERS branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has decried the hazardous working environment at the nation’s port terminals, saying no fewer than eight dockworkers have lost their lives to industrial accidents since the beginning of the year. The union, however, commended the management of APM Terminal for the high […]

The Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of Nigeria Police Force has re-arraigned the General Overseer of a pentecostal church, Pastor Chris Anyalebechi, before Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over alleged N58 million fraud.

Nigerian Optometric Association, NOA in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has called on Nigerians, particularly, drivers to annually go for eye checkup or risked being victims of Glaucoma and other eyes related ailments. They also posited that majority of the road accidents recorded in Nigeria are mostly caused by blurred vision.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the issue about the Chibok girls is a test of humanity to all Nigerians and not a debate between President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress party (APC) on one hand and ex-President Jonathan and the opposition PDP on the other.