About 1,000 laid off as labour dispute endangers Nigerian Content policy
The Federal Government's much avowed local content policy appears to be endangered following prevailing war by labour leaders against fledgling indigenous service companies that form the engine of the policy drive, as about 1,000 staff of companies were laid off recently.
Return of fuel subsidy
One of the reasons that President Muhammadu Buhari gave for making himself the Minister of Petroleum Resources was that he wanted to sanitise the oil industry, especially the NNPC.
Eruani: The man behind Azikel Refinery
DESPITE the early oil find at Oloibiri, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa state in 1956, many indigenes did not perceive the need to invest in the petroleum industry, still the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. This has constrained them from tapping the benefits inherent in the industry for themselves and the region.
Ohanaeze faults FG’s cut-off mark disparity in Unity schools
THE apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lambasted the Federal Ministry of Education for continuing in alleged descriminatory cut-off point in unity schools in Nigeria.
Madman hacks 2 pupils to death in Ogun
Confusion enveloped residents of Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State when a suspected mentally deranged man, yesterday, hacked two pupils of Saint John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, in the area to death.
Jigawa govt promotes hygiene with open defecation award
Jigawa State government has introduced competition among the 14 councils benefiting from Sanitation Hygiene Water in Nigeria, SHÀWN, projects for an award of Open Defecation Free, ODF.
