No going back on strike – Research institute workers
Research institutes’ workers across the country, who have been on industrial strike for about three months, have vowed not to resume work until their demands were fully met.
Court jails 2 over illegal lottery activities
Lagos State Special Offences Court has sentenced Messrs Biodun Adegbola and Ahmed Toro to 730 days in prison with an option of N500,000 fine over illegal operation of lottery.
As Abuja votes tomorrow
THIRTEEN Political Parties are fielding 46 chairmanship candidates for the Local Government Elections in the six area councils of the Federal Capital territory, FCT tomorrow.
NSE boss urges maritime operators to seek funding from capital market
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Oyema, has invited operators in the maritime industry to approach the Exchange to seek funds for expansion and development of their businesses.
CBN to cut policy rate to 11% next week – Rewane
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will relax its monetary policy by reducing its policy rate to 11 per cent next week when its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets, Bismarck Rewane, Financial Derivative Company has predicted.
Pope Francis shuns perks as papal duties begin
Known for his legendary humility, the new Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis began his papal duties yesterday by shunning the perks offered to the office but adopted a modest approach as he celebrated his first mass as pontiff a day after his dramatic election as the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church.
Poverty and gradual descent into a state of anarchy
The statement that Nigeria is a poor country with widespread poverty is axiomatic. It is estimated that more than 75% in the Nigerian population live in squalor and could hardly make a decent living from what they do. This situation calls into question the general assumption that a country blessed with crude oil and other mineral resources and also endowed with natural human talents would have anything to do with deepening poverty and its attendant sufferings and deprivations.
I’m a man exposed to good living through the hard way – Chris Ajilo
Come the next Boxing Day, Highlife legend, composer and one of the pioneer musicologists in Nigeria, Chris Ajilo will clock 84 years old but when he walked into the Corporate Office of Vanguard Media Limited some days back, to visit his old friend, the publisher of Vanguard, Mr. Sam Amuka, there was nothing of him to show he was anything near that age.
