Full list: UK shuts 13 more asylum hotels
The UK government has announced the closure of 13 more hotels being used to accommodate asylum seekers, as part of its wider plan to end the use of hotels for asylum accommodation.
Iwu won’t be re-appointed – Maduekwe
By Abayomi Adeshida & Daniel Idonor NEW YORK — MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, today said Nigerians would be shocked if the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu is re-appointed to conduct the 2011 general elections just as the American Government charged the Federal Government that unless transparent and […]
Labour Ministry wades into Wema Bank, workers’ crisis
FEDERAL Ministry of Labour and Productivity has waded into the industrial face-off between the organised labour in the financial sector and the management of Wema Bank Plc, over the ongoing restructuring exercise in the bank which so far claimed unspecified numbers of workers.
Ohu’s killing: NUJ tasks FG on security
THE Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abuja chapter, Jacob Edi said MOnday that the gruesome murder of The Guardian Assistant News Editor, Bayo Ohu, was horrifying, mindless and cowardly.
‘Unified cargo shipment good for Nigeria’
THE Director of Legal Services, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr. Hassan Bello, has said Nigeria will benefit from the proposed legal frame- work for a unified international cargo shipment
Low key Sallah celebration in Yobe
By Bala Ajiya DAMATURU -As Muslims all over the world celebrate Sallah, the celebration was, however, without excitement in Damaturu and other towns in Yobe State due to the present down turn in the economy. Most Muslims, especially civil servants, were disappointed as there was no salary or salary advance for them to celebrate the […]
