By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Ifunaya Okafor FOR quite a while, there has been altercation between the management of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and  its Pensioners over  a backlog of unpaid arrears  benefits spanning over eight years. Some pensioners are also in court  with the management over benefits that date back to 1991. Last week, the […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young TRUSTFUND Pensions, has spent over two  billion Naira to settle the benefits of a total of 14, 691 retirees inherited from the defunct National Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) in 2006. Head of the NSITF Fund Division of the Trustfund Pension Plc, Mr. Simon-Peters Okoduwa, who disclosed this in  Abuja, said  the […]

By Funmi Komolafe &  Victor Ahiuma-Young SINCE the establishment of the National Productivity Centre (NPC), in 1987, with the mandate to stimulate productivity consciousness in all sectors of Nigerian economy, with the aim of  generating  visible improvement in the quantity and quality of services rendered and goods produced, the centre has been trying its best […]

The minister for labour and productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode will today in Abuja     brief the press on the activities of his ministry and its parastatals. The  briefing will focus  on events in the last one year as well as the ministry’s projections. A statement by Assistant Director (Press), Samuel Olowookere, said the briefing is […]

An ISO certified education firm, KarRox, is offering scholarship to about 20,000 Nigerian students who applied for its annual IT Empowerment Scholarship programme. The organisation is investing N160 million into the scholarship scheme as a way of widening access to quality computer education.

The President, Home Edutainment group, Uzondu Peace, has called on primary and secondary school students who have flair for science subjects to rise up to the challenges of acquiring basic knowledge and methods of passing it with ease.

Lincoln University, California, United States of America and SKB, MBA Executive Business School, Lagos have held the 2009 graduation ceremony which coincided with the Lincoln University 90th anniversary in Oakland, California.

The President of Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen (NAEC), Malam Yaryar Yakubu has called on Nigerian students, individuals and the Government to imbibe alternative means of electric power supply in homes and in the nation at large via installation of wind energy, solar energy and inverter power systems.

THE popular belief is that only the very determined motor owners can brave the recklessness on display on Lagos roads everyday. Those considered as faint-hearted had long since given up any attempt to be part of the mad rush that passes as driving in the metropolis.

Edobor continued that I showed him love and care but he remained unyielding, adding that “at a time when his wife was heavily pregnant, I asked him if there was any housemaid to assist his wife in cleaning the environment but, he pleaded that as soon as his wife puts to bed, he would employ an house-help. Behold, his wife puts to bed although through a more pathetic circumstance and we never bothered to ask him for anything again.

By Owei Lakemfa IF a colossus walked through a people’s socio-economic and political life, leaving giant prints in the sands of history and touching positively the lives of the ordinary people, it will be difficult to capture his life in a single piece. If a man of demonstrable courage and commitment  who wielded enormous moral […]

By Bose Adebayo She is a mother of three, a widow and a food seller at the popular Oke-Odo market in Agbado-Oke-odo Local Council Development Area. In spite of her hard work, Madam Kofo, as fondly called by her friends, could not make ends meet and her three children were withdrawn from a private school. […]

head pastor of Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos, Dr. Tunde Bakare has joined the growing army of Nigerians opposed to the recent sack of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of the Christ Church Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God for remarrying 10 years after divorcing the wife of his youth.

YESTERDAY (last Wednesday) there was a purported convention by Chekwas. In the event that the result of this tango goes the other way, what other options does your party have?

Prayer is not a play fair; it is a warfare. It is a weapon of war; it is warfare itself. It takes a warfare disposition to prevail in prayers. Prayer is one of the greatest assets of any child of God. It is the communication link you have with God.