On his part, Asiwaju Michael Olawale Cole, President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry, LCCI in a statement said, “Beyond the speeches and celebrations that mark the annual International Women’s Day, we use this medium to call for critical policy and social reforms that put gender equality and sustainability at the center of governance, politics, and international affairs. Women should be given equal access to resources for them to add more value to society.

THE level of destruction already recorded in just two weeks of intense fighting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows how nasty war, particularly modern warfare, is. Ironically, the traditional roundtable talks which should have taken place to prevent the conflict, also commenced almost from the day the first shot was fired. Warnings by Western […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru The management of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, and some aggrieved workers are bickering over in illegal recruitment,  promotion of senior staff without writing the compulsory examination, mandating junior staff to write examination and lobbying to extend his tenure, among others. FMBN’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, MD CEO, Ahmed Dangiwa, […]

WIVES of the thirty- six State Governors have vowed to occupy the National Assembly to express their disdain and disappointment over last week’s rejection of women-related bills at  plenary session.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young The Federal Government has requested for more foreign direct investment from France to create more employment opportunities in the country. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige made the request while receiving the Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Mrs Emmanuelle Blatmann and other top French embassy officials, in his office. While […]

The wife of the Ondo state governor, Chief (Mrs) Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has challenged Nigerian women to unite and confront the National Assembly members’ reactionary attitudes toward women’s rights in the country.

THE Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adegbite, has disclosed that processed Kaolin will meet demands in pharmaceutical, cosmetics and paint industries.

A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Grassroots Empowerment and Justice, GEJ, Initiative, Wednesday, hailed the National Assembly, particularly the House of Representatives for swearing in the newly elected Member of the House representing Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency, Jude Ngaji.

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Indigenes of Lasukugbene in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have lamented the adverse impact of crude oil leakage from an oil facility owned by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC. The natives are also calling on the oil firm to contain a second spill point from last month’s leakage […]

THE newly appointed Archbishop of Owerri, Most Reverend Lucius Ugorji, has been elected the new President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, taking over from Most Reverend Augustine Obiora Akubeze whose four year tenure just ended.