A MEETING between officials of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, and leaders of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, has resulted to the setting up of a seven man committee to midwife, fine tune and monitor the implementation of efforts at addressing the union’s grievances on the backlog of unpaid arrears to civil servants totaling more than N290billion.

WOMEN under the auspices of Virtuous Women and Youth Empowerment Initiative, VWYEI, have called on religious leaders across the country to shun and avoid hate speech in their sermons.

LAST week, we began this series on Bank of Industry (BoI) loan facilities to Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs. We noted some basic pre-requisites for companies wishing to apply for loan in the Bank. And we also listed out about 41 groups of businesses the Bank provides loan for while noting that you can write to the Bank in case you didn’t find your line of business in the list.

Parents of students and candidates of public secondary schools in Borno State are now in a dilemma as West African Examination Council, WAEC, and National Examinations Council, NECO, have refused to release the results of those that sat for 2017 editions due the failure of the state government to pay the fees.

THE constantly increasing population of Nigeria has not shown any signs of becoming an asset at the moment, according to United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA.