By Sam Eyoboka Lagos – AS part of its corporate social responsibility of ex-raying, anatomising, analysing and proffering solutions to the various challenges facing Nigeria, the Foursquare Gospel Church will today hold its annual Samuel Odunaike Memorial Lecture 2009 and Leadership Foundation Dinner. The theme of the programme scheduled for the Sheraton Hotel and Towers […]

By Ifunanya Okafor Lagos – CAMPAIGN for Democratic Workers Rights (CDWR) has called on the Lagos State government, authorities of the Lagos State Police Command and Lagbus Assest Management Limited to release the remaining five of the seven BRT workers arrested on Monday during a strike and protest over improved conditions of service. The group […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Lagos-The two unions in the nation’s petroleum industry, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have petitioned the Federal Government, lamenting that their position on government planned deregulation of the downstream oil industry had unfortunately been interpreted by […]

By Chidi Nkwopara Owerri – Imo State Governor, Chief  Ikedi Ohakim, has said that no amount of blackmail or falsehood will deter him from accomplishing his administration’s set goals for the people of the state. Ohakim stated this while addressing Imo political stakeholders at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Owerri. “It is most unfortunate […]

By Chioma Obinna The United Nations Children’s Fund  (UNICEF), yesterday, received a grant of N1.2 billion (US $ 8.5 million) from the Japanese government for its child survival programmes in Nigeria. The grant is for polio eradication, routine immunisation and the prevention of malaria. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Nigeria, Mr. Toshitsugu […]