LAGOS— Barely a week after the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, suspended a 10-day strike, public hospitals nationwide are facing imminent shutdown as all the major unions of health workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, yesterday, embarked on indefinite strike.

Ifeyinwa Okafor is the Chief Executive Officer of Homes and Landscapes, an interior decorating company. Interestingly, the company does this with recycled products. In this interview with Prisca Sam-Duru, Mrs. Okafor speaks about her company’s pet project, ‘Art Arise’ and more on the need for children to be allowed to choose careers based on their talents.

FOR the first time in the history of higher education in Nigeria, a Draft National Policy on Open Educational Resources, OER, has been validated to address the dearth of learning resources in quality, quantity and currency in higher education in the country. No fewer than 340 participants at a one-day Stakeholders’ Validation Symposium at the National Universities Commission, NUC, Abuja, considered, finalised and adopted the policy document, following a motion by a member and Advisor of the National Steering Committee on Open Educational Resources (NSC-OER), Professor Peter Okebukola,  OFR.

Yenagoa—President of Ijaw Youth Council , IYC,  Mr. Oweilaemi Pereotubo, has said it will be historic in the creeks of Niger Delta for the take-off of academic activities at Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State in October 2017.

If your child were to suffer from some potentially life-threatening situations, would you know how to save his or her life? Or will you just watch helplessly? Seeing your child in an emergency can be indeed horrifying but feeling helpless can be worse. Below are first aid tips that could save the day.

THE Bank of Industry (BoI) has disbursed loan in excess of N47billion to support entrepreneurs in Kaduna State in the micro, small and medium enterprises, MSMEs, category, Managing Director of the bank, Mr. Olukayode Pitan, has said. Pitan, who disclosed this at a meeting with the Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, added that the loan facility engendered over 84,500 direct and indirect jobs.

lagos—THE immediate past Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Management), University of Lagos, UNILAG, Professor Duro Oni has said that the need to assist researchers and scholars informed his decision to write the book entitled: Striking Expressions.

UNION Bank Nigeria Plc’s N50 billion Rights Issue opened for subscription, yesterday, just as Forte Oil Plc has put on hold its proposed N20 billion capital raising after receiving the approval of Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.

IN continuation with this series on Bank of Industry, BoI, we continue listing some basic pre-requisites for businesses wishing to get loan from the BoI, one of which is the collateral requirements.

DANGOTE Sugar Refinery Plc has given insights into why the company is not manufacturing cube sugar despite having invested over N400 billion in backward integration projects in the sugar sector.