Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Plan ahead for retirement, Nwauzor advises workers
CHIEF Nkem Nwauzor, is the immediate past General Secretary of the oldest trade union in the country, the Nigeria Civil Service Union, NCSU. He retired from the union in 2008 after 28 years in the services of NCSU on account of age. In this interview with Pension and You Correspondent, Victor Ahiuma-Young, in Asaba, Delta State, his home state where now lives, he gave insight into how employees should prepare for retirement among others, how his retirement life has been.
FG moves to tackle poor result in NECO, SSCE exams -Rufai
Education Minister, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai has said that the Federal Government is specifically addressing the issue of poor performance in NECO and SSCE examination.
We are short of technical manpower- Employers
NECA’s 53rd annual general meeting was another opportunity for private sector employers to make public their views on a number of issues ranging from the challenges of doing business in Nigeria to the exist of multinationals from Nigeria. The relationship of the Organised Private Sector with Government, workers and of course, politics.
When Orile pedestrian bridge came down
Although Saturday, May 29, was observed as environmental sanitation day in Lagos, most residents of Orile Iganmu defied the restriction of movement order to observe the final demolition of the pedestrian bridge at Orile Bus-stop on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
We’ve well educated graduates who lack skills – Rector
The Rector, Gateway Industrial and Petrol Gas Institute, (GIPI) Oni, Ogun State, Engineer Adeyemi Olabode, has said that it is high time stakeholders in education sector rose to the reality that tertiary education especially in sciences without corresponding practical experience in its discipline will not attract national and international attention in a competitive labour market.
