16-year-old Ejikeme Joy, the overall best-performing candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has been awarded a scholarship worth N3 Million by Innoson vehicles. The leading Nigerian automobile manufacturer, founded by Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma OFR, demonstrated its ...
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No fewer than 1,685 school children in some communities in Ikorodu, Lagos State, have benefited from a “Free Eye Check, Diagnosis, Treatment and Eye Glasses Outreach’’ by the RESTORE Foundation For Child Sight, an NGO. The Executive Director of the ...
Read More »Registrar Reiterates NMCN’s Commitment To Healthy Mothers, Babies
Mr Faruk Abubakar, the Secretary General/Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), has reiterated the council’s commitment toward having healthy mothers and babies in the country. He made the pledge during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...
Read More »NUJ Trains Members On Solutions Journalism
The Niger State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has trained its members on Solutions Journalism towards exposing them to new practices in the profession. Mr Ismail Abdulaziz, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), conducted the training ...
Read More »African Countries Must Join Forces To Diversify Energy Mix Through AfCFTA- Kyari
Mr Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL), has called on African countries to take advantage of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Kyari said this would help to diversify ...
Read More »May Day: Ratify ILO Conventions On Social Protection – Labour Tells FG
The Organised Labour has called on the Federal Government to begin the process of ratifying conventions 102 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), on Social Protection. Mr Festu Osifo, President, Trade Union Congress (TUC), made the call during the 2023 ...
Read More »NLC, TUC Begin Strike Today
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have jointly directed workers in Imo State to withdraw their services across the state beginning Tuesday night. NLC said the decision followed the disruption of Monday’s Workers’ Day celebration supposedly by ...
Read More »Labour Day: Katsina Workers Say Nowhere Is Safe
Workers in Katsina State under the auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have decried the precarious state of insecurity in the area, urging the incoming administration to find an enduring solution to the problem. Speaking on Monday on the ...
Read More »May Day: Lagos NIPR Calls For Prioritization Of Employee Welfare
The Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) felicitates with all Public Relations professionals in Lagos and around Nigeria on the occasion of Workers Day 2023. The Chairman of the Lagos Chapter of NIPR, Mrs. Comfort Obot ...
Read More »Election Tribunal: NLC Threatens To Shame Corrupt Judges
The national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joseph Ajaero yesterday vowed that the labour centre will create a “hall of shame” for those judges that undermine the tenets of judiciary and come up with ridiculous judgements on ...
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