GENEVA—Nigeria was dragged before the International Labour Committee on the Application Standards in Geneva yesterday for gross violation of labour standards which has made the workplace unsafe for workers in the country.
It was also reported for failure to file reports at the appropriate time

By Evelyn Usman & Ifeanyi Okolie Tragedy was averted yesterday when the decking of a storey building caved in, in Oworosoki area of Lagos. However, three persons — a mother and her two children — said to have been trapped under the debris for hours before help came, sustained serious injuries.

Our correspondent reports that the entire building wall will collapse soon unless government intervened quickly, as the dilapidated building, made of mud, is the only building standing in the primary school.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that the state government has made policies and implemented programmes that deal frontally with the HIV/AIDS challenges.

THE Lagos State Government has sealed off another six patent medicine stores, two pharmacies and arrested four suspects in Epe area of Lagos even as it said the suspects will soon be arraigned according to the state law.