New Plateau Speaker seeks colleagues’ support to succeed
Mr Joshua Madaki, the new Speaker of the Plateau House of Assembly has called on his colleagues to support his leadership in order to succeed.
Itsekiri, Ijaw, Ilaje graduates reject contract extension for 151 VTP trainees
Leadership of Itsekiri, Ijaw and Ilaje graduates under the aegis of the 3i Coalition, has rejected the three months contract extension allegedly offered to 151 graduate trainees of VTP 5/OTP 2 and VTP 6 by Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, insisting that Chevron “must convert all 151 trainees who have been under slave labour for over three years.”
London Breed, San Francisco’s first black mayor sworn in
London Breed Wednesday was sworn in as the first African-American female mayor of San Francisco, a major tourist city on the U.S. west coast, amid challenges ranging from homeless crisis, skyrocketing housing prices and a widening income gap between the rich and poor.
NLNG seeks $7bn for Train 7 expansion, sustainability
NIGERIA LNG Limited, NLNG, is seeking $7 billion from the global financial markets for the sustainability of its operations and expansion project which will increase its production capacity from 22 Million Tonnes Per Annum, MTPA to 30 MTPA.
13.5m out-of-school children worrisome— UBEC Executive Secretary
As Nigeria’s education sector continues to experience a decline in standard and quality of infrastructure, the Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi has said the most worrisome issue was the out-of-school children phenomenon. He said: “The most worrisome issue is the out-of-school children phenomenon as the figures range from 8.7m to 13.5m pupils, the highest in the world.” He lamented that in the North-East and the North-West 58% and 51% of their children respectively never attended school or attend only quranic schools.Bobboyi who described the trend as a challenge during a stakeholders round table in Lagos organised by Oando Foundation, pointed out that the Almajiri, migrant communities, the girl-child predicament, Boko Haram and killer herdsmen helped to increase the figure of out-of-school children.He lamented the learning crisis in the North-West and North-East where pupils would be in school but little learning
Oil spill: Communities/Shell face-off threatens Trans-Ramos pipeline repair
COMMUNITIES in Bayelsa State impacted by May 17 oil spillage from Shell Petroleum Development Company’s, SPDC, Trans-Ramos Pipeline have vowed to disrupt repairs on the key asset over perceived biased Joint Investigation Visit, JIV.
