In its bid to improve the skills, efficiency and make its workers compete favourably with their counterparts, Lagos House of Assembly has embarked on intensive training programme on English Language and effective speaking for its workers who are involved in legislative and administrative departments.

THE Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, will meet with its 2006/2007 retirees on October 24, to resolve contentious issues in its Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, DPS.

The Judiciary Information System, JIS, has been launched as part of activities marking the 2013/2014 legal year of the Lagos State Judiciary. The launch in Lagos reflects the desire of the incumbent state Chief Judge, Justice Ayotunde Philips to make the state judiciary, one that will boast of current Information Technology formations. Recalling her comment, while she was being sworn-in as the Chief Judge, Justice Philips said she would ensure that the affairs of the state judiciary were conducted in line with modern information technology.

Determined to grow the education sector, Bobo Food and Beverages Limited BFBL, has announced the commencement of ‘BOBO Kids with Voices’ an annual music competition among pupils of primary schools in Nigeria.

The joy of James Aninyem knew no bound as hope to further his education came alive on Friday when the Senior Management Programme 47 class, Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos took over its sponsorship from SS1 to SS3.

The Concerned Environmental Health Graduates (CEHG) has called on the Federal Government to implement policies that help promote environmental health. The Group spokesperson, Mr. James Abraham, made this call at an event to mark the World environmental health day at the College of Health Technology in Lagos recently.

Following the recent allegations levied against a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Nigerian Army, by some aggrieved individuals over forceful eviction from a property located at House Number 311, B close, Festac town, Lagos, a counsel to the officer identified as Victor Chinedu, has cleared the air on the allegations.

Angered by the recent killing of five policemen in Lagos State by some armed robbers, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Umar Manko,has declared an all-out war against criminals in all the nooks and crannies of the state. Manko is believed to have given special directives to the officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Abba Kyari, to fish out the criminals that perpetrated the act without delay.

The circumstances surrounding the death of a septuagenarian monarch, Chief Sunday Osune Nwaka, in his village, Mputu,15 kilometres away from Onitsha in Anambra State is giving police detectives serious concern. In fact, in spite of the fact that one of the sons of the monarch is being fingered over the gruesome murder, family members are calling for justice, insisting that all the suspects so far arrested should be charged to court.

Why was Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole of Edo State involved in a solidarity march organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja to protest over minimum wage? He explains, in this interview, the reason, despite being a governor, he kept faith with Labour, his primary constituency. He raises the alarm that the Federal Government is killing the economy of states with irregular Federal Allocations, saying the situation poses danger to the nation’s democracy. Oshiomhole also speaks on the prevalence of kidnapping in his state among several other issues