By Sylva Emeka-Okereke, JP, Publisher.   The new Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola has serious tasks up-his-sleeves.  From lack of national shipping line to unavailability of ocean-going national carrier vessels and down to obnoxious harbour bills, the challenges stare the Minister in the face. Those tasks stuck like a sore-thumb.  Few days ago, the Minister embarked on meet-the-stakeholders visit of the industry, to ascertain the reality on ground.  During the visit, the apex maritime Union, the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, led by its President and Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Adewale ...

By Sylva Emeka-Okereke, JP, Publisher  As early as 7am  yesterday, September 25, over 100 members of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, had gathered under Ikeja bridge, near LASUTH, to kick-off its protests against disobedience of court order by the Lagos state governor.  From under the bridge, cascading through Awolowo road, down to Governor’s Office, Alausa, Ikeja, the agitated workers matched in protest to Alausa, Ikeja with different inscriptions on their placards.  Some of the inscriptions on their placards read in part “RTEAN/NURTW: Get up and fight for your right”:   “Direct action beats inaction”;.          “We are on ...

Gov. Otti By Godwin Adindu It is no longer news that there is a new Abia where, according to the bible, “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”. One of Governor Alex Otti’s major policy thrusts is to cause a rebirth, a rejuvenation and a total change of the Abia routine. After a season, knowledge increases, and society recreates itself. Society is dynamic and life is in constant flux. Today, all well-meaning people of the world chorus the sing-song that Abia’s rebirth was long overdue and Governor Otti has come at the nick of time. Expectedly, ...

Pix shows Mr Adedayo By Our Reporter  Details have emerged of alleged mismanagement of local government funds in Ogun State after a local government chairman on Sunday accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of withholding statutory allocations from the federation accounts to local governments in the state. The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Wale Adedayo, said the governor had perpetrated the illegal act since he took office in May 2019. Mr Adedayo made the accusation in a letter he addressed to a former governor of the state and a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Olusegun Osoba; and made public ...