By Victor Ahiuma-Young Workers in the Chemical and Non-Metallic Products industry, have said gratuity and pension are different, insisting that pension cannot replace gratuity. Leaders of National Union of Chemical Footwear Rubber Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, and their Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, CANMPSSAN, counterpart, reiterated the workers’ position […]

Igbo youths worldwide have vowed to troop out en mass to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State, on Thursday, when he visits to commission projects by the State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Katsina State House of Assembly has passed an executive bill for the establishment of a contributory pension scheme in the state. The bill, presented by Governor Aminu Masari, was passed by the assembly during its plenary, presided over by the Speaker, Alhaji Tasi’u Maigari. The passage of the bill followed the presentation […]

Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Southwest Zone has called on the governors from the region to implement the recently approved consequential adjustment to pensioners.  

By Victor Ahiuma-Young The Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Contributory Pension Scheme Sector, NUPCPS, has pleaded with the National Pension Commission, PenCom, to direct Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, and insurance companies to pay the 2.5 per cent differential released by the Federal Government, to members en-bloc to halt further death of retirees. NUPCPS in a communiqué […]

The Enugu State Government has reacted to the unfortunate culvert failure at drainage 3+120 along Neke/Mbu/Ogbodu-Abba/Obollo-Etiti road, a World Bank project executed under the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP II), revealing that preliminary reports point to a blockage of the culvert inlet by heavy debris comprising logs and other materials from a nearby forest as a result of unprecedented and intensive rainfall that caused flooding and erosion in the ravaged section.

By Steve Oko Traders occurring shops at A-Line, C-Line, and Medical Line in Ariaria International Market Aba have up till midnight Wednesday, September 8, to quit as the state government begins redevelopment work on the affected lines. The ultimatum was contained in a press release by the Commissioner of Information Chief John Okiyi Kalu. According […]

The former Governor of Anambra State and the 2019 vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, Wednesday, said he always wears black shoes because it matches almost all colours.

For improving food security across 13 countries in Sub Saharan Africa, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize of the year award.

AHEAD of the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State today, the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has urged Igbo leaders of all shapes to demand from the President, the release of detained leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.