THE issue of decent work has become part of global industrial relations practice.

WHAT does ideal democracy offer the people of Imo state? Ideally, democracy offers the people of Imo the promise that at the barest minimum, they should have unfettered opportunity to choose those to whom all Imo citizens can entrust with our welfare and collective development, those who will best represent Imo because our aggregated choices, counted as votes will make them our honest representatives taking our individual and collective interests before their personal and vested interests.

One month after Dr. Kayode Fayemi was declared the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election, the failure of the outgoing governor of the state, Mr. Ayodele Fayose to recognize the fact of the victory is getting some stakeholders in the state worried.

IN the last one month, Nigerians have witnessed the movement or abandonment by politicians of one political party for another. The reasons they give have ranged from impunity, inadequate reward, harassment and undemocratic impositions by their former political parties who now perceive them as political enemies.

Rivers State Commissioner for Education and former two-time member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja has said the administration of Rotimi Amaechi left a deteriorated education sector for Governor Nyesom Wike. Jaja, in an interview in Abuja, insisted that the immediate past administration only thrived in propaganda. Excerpts:

In recent months, particularly in the wake of the utter chaos in the country, I have found myself going back again and again to the all-important question of leadership.

National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), NEPAD Business Group Nigeria, and other participants at the second roundtable of NASME, Lagos chapter, have called for more research funding to enhance the competitiveness of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), noting that lack of relevant research system that aligns with their needs is one of the major challenges bedevilling the sector in Nigeria.

IJEBU-ODE—THE Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has said the Federal Government has identified Ogun State as one of its key partners to grow the fisheries industry.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday saluted the roles of the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II and the European Union in the fight against human trafficking and illegal migration in the state, in the last one year.

BARELY two weeks after the close of third term and the ushering in of long vacation, children are seen back at schools all in the name of summer lesson.