Prepare workers for job loss, experts tell employees
Folashade Adebayo The Founder, Nightingale Mental Health Foundation, Mrs. Olubukola Hassan, has said that psychological trauma in employees can be avoided if employers take steps to prepare them for...
View ArticleBridge clinic boss calls for foreign investment in health
Bukola Adebayo The Managing Director of The Bridge Clinic, Lagos, Dr. Richardson Ajayi, has called on foreign investors to choose Nigeria as their destination for health investments. Ajayi made this...
View ArticleHave no doubts, infertility is preventable (1)
Oladapo Ashiru I want to share with readers some of the presentation we made at the recently concluded 22nd world fertility congress of the International Federation of Fertility Societies in New Delhi,...
View ArticleDefamation: Odili sues Peterside, claims N6bn damages
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt A former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, has dragged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside,...
View ArticleWe are starving, pensioners tell Okorocha
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Retired civil servants in Imo State operating on the platform of Retired Permanent Secretaries have accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of subjecting the members of the body to...
View ArticleNiger stops payment of WASSCE fees, parents beg
Enyioha Opara with agency report The Niger State Government said it would discontinue the payment of the West African Senior School Examination Certificate Examination and National Examination Council...
View ArticleHow realistic are the 2017 budget assumptions?
Uche Uwaleke History was made on October 4, 2016, when the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, acknowledged receiving from President Muhammadu Buhari the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and...
View ArticleThe aftermath of the coup in Turkey (2)
Fethullah Gülen Continued from Tuesday Participants in the Hizmet Movement have been overseen by hundreds of governments, intelligence agencies, researchers or independent civil society organisations...
View ArticleOn the DSS abduction of judges
Jide Ojo One of the canons of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign promises in the run-up to the epochal 2015 general elections was anti-corruption. Nigeria has consistently ranked low on Transparency...
View ArticleWaku wants judiciary sanitised, Obasanjo probed
John Charles, Makurdi A former senator representing Benue North-West Senatorial District, Joseph Waku, has decried the rot in the judiciary and expressed concern that the nation is heading for doom if...
View ArticleBudget minister forgets Nigeria’s debt profile
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, could not make available the current debt profile of the country when asked to do so in one of the plenary sessions at the ongoing...
View ArticleSuspect defecates in court to evade trial in Edo
Alexander Okere, Benin There was pandemonium on Tuesday at the Magistrates’ Court complex in Benin, Edo State, when an 18-year-old man, Abudulahi Muhammed, defecated on his body and attempted to flee...
View ArticleFamily of abducted sick Lagos schoolboy pays N1m ransom
Olaleye Aluko The family of one of the four pupils of Lagos Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State, who was reported to have fallen sick in kidnappers’ den, paid N1m ransom on Tuesday. A...
View ArticleJudges’ arrest: NJC meeting inconclusive, to take position Wednesday
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The National Judicial Council was unable to conclude its Tuesday’s emergency meeting scheduled to review and take a position on last weekend’s raid on the houses and arrest of some...
View ArticleTribunal grants Ize-Iyamu’s request to inspect electoral materials
Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin has granted a motion ex parte to the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to inspect...
View ArticleReturn Anambra’s N43bn, Obiano tells Buhari
Tony Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, on Tuesday, urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to refund the N43bn the state spent on the rehabilitation of...
View ArticleObasanjo slams governors for incapacitating LGs
Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the governors remain the “greatest obstacles” to having a virile and functional local governments in the country. He said this...
View ArticleFG begins school feeding programme this month –Osinbajo
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said the government’s free National Home Grown School Feeding programme would start in some states of the federation this month....
View ArticleNLNG assets worth $13bn, says MD
’Femi Asu The Managing Director, Nigeria LNG Limited, Mr. Tony Attah, has said the company’s assets are now worth over $13bn. A statement by the firm on Tuesday quoted him as saying this during a...
View ArticleSale of two aircraft not enough
Punch Editorial Board FACED with an economy in a tailspin and a citizenry impatient for a turnaround in their fortunes, a reluctant President Muhammadu Buhari has been forced to put up for sale two out...
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