By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Fourteen days after her abduction by armed gunmen from her country home at Tungbo in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the family of Grandma Lydia Epidi, yesterday, had cause to rejoice as they reunited with her. Mrs. Lydia Epidi, it was learnt, regained her freedom in the early hours […]

Members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS), in the Nigerian economy, comprising the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI) and the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), are opposed to the plan to introduce a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Tax on businesses in the country through the CSR Commission Bill.

BY VIVIAN ENEBELI MOVEMENT for Restoration of Oyo, MRO, a non governmental organisation, reviewed, weekend,  the activities of the Otunba Bayo Alao-Akala-led government in the last two years with a verdict: Below Average. The organisation, led by Chief Bayo Aderounmu, said in a signed press release from its Abuja base that the Oyo State Government […]

BY SOLA OGUNDIPE EVEN as the Nigerian Medical Association has backed down on the threatened strike action following personal intervention by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan at the instance of the Health Minister, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the effect of the on-going medical and health workers’ strike remained palpable. The NMA met yesterday to shelve the proposed […]

PANDEMONIUM broke out,  yesterday, at Uso Lane, off Edo Street, Benin-City, after a 28 year-old lady, Helen, was allegedly murdered by her boy friend. Meanwhile, suspected kidnappers, yesterday, abducted a Benin based business mogul, Chief Mike Inegbenebo, at his residence in GRA, Benin City.  Sunday Vanguard learnt that he was abducted by a three-man gang as he […]