INCLUSIVE and Sustainable Industrial Development: Africa Agro Industry for Food Security, was the theme of a one-day round-table organized in Abuja by affiliates of IndustriALL Global Union Federation, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and Federation of Informal Workers’ Organizations of Nigeria, FIWON,with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES, to mark Africa Industrialization Day 2014.

ONCE upon a time a man in perfect health announced to his family that he should die on his next birthday. When it was his next birthday, he refused to go to work, saying that he should certainly die before midnight. His family was worried and decided to call in the family physician.

STERLING Partnership, one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firm in Lagos, has organised an end of year networking reception and interaction for its clients and friends.
The event was jointly hosted by the acting British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Mike Purves at the British residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The main thrust of the event which commenced at 6.30 p.m., was appreciation to Sterling Partnership’s clients and friends of the firm for their business and support through 2014.
The private sector, government, diplomats and members of their diplomatic missions attended the event.

False sense of security

But, he had also been a victim of media yes-men, especially one newspaper, who led him into a flase sense of security concerning how the people of Ekiti perceived his policies and programmes. Because, I had written before on why he lost the re-election bid, permit me not to repeat what is already history. It will be interesting to know how Fayemi relates with those columnists, who sat in Lagos, and knew how the people of Ekiti would vote.

A professor of electrical and electronics engineering, Covenant University, Ota, has called on tertiary institutions in the country to assist in tackling the many challenges bedevilling electricity supply in the country.