Appointments

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Tuesday said it has trained over 500,000 corps members under its reinvigorated Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme since its inception in 2012.

THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that a total of 8,764 public servants in various cadres exited the service within the first quarter (QI) of 2015.

TO successfully create and drive business ideas, EY has advised Nigerian youths to desist from pursuing white-collar jobs. Speaking at an interactive session with Journalists in Lagos, Regional Managing Partner for West Africa, Henry Egbiki, stressed that in order to tackle unemployment in Nigeria, there is need to promote entrepreneurship skills among upcoming youths. According…

CHAIRMAN, Ojo-Badagry chapter of the Personnel Practitioner Consultative Association (PPCA), Dr. Yunus Dauda, has been declared the best PPCA Chairman of the year 2014/2015 in Lagos State. Dauda, a former Head of Department and presently a senior lecturer at the Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, was presented with…

RENAISSANCE Capital (RENCAP) has appointed Elena Kolchina as Director of Fixed Income Desk Strategist and Credit Analyst in its quest to further strengthen its global team. Prior to this appointment, Kolchina was responsible for managing the Signet Verno Russia Debt Fund, and was actively involved in building other high-income bond products, asset raising and liaising…

OVER 200 youths recently gathered at the National Women Development Centre, Abuja, to participate in the third edition of Career Exposition Seminar organized by AfriGrowth Foundation. Career Exposition Seminar is a capacity building framework targeted towards engaging the youths in a process of value reorientation, character development and skills acquisition for better performance in business,…

UNPAID salaries may not be a new phenomenon in the country as workers have got used to being owed several months by both the private and public sectors. If this has been the scenario for several decades, why then the cacophonies of hullaballoos that have greeted several months of unpaid salaries of workers by state…

Retirement savings account hits N196b THE instability in the capital market and non-payment of salaries are factors that impacted negatively on the performances of Pension Funds Administrators (PFAs), the Board Chairman of Trustfund Pension Plc, Mrs. Ngozi Olejeme has said. Speaking at the Seventh yearly meeting in Abuja at the weekend, Olejeme, described 2014 as…

THE Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has finalised a structure that will provide two million jobs for Nigerian youths yearly, through its skills acquisition and employment creation programme. The Director-General, ITF, Mrs. Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko, disclosed at the weekend, that the Fund planned to achieve the feat by collaborating with the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA). She…

IN an almost unprecedented drive to put as many qualified Northern professionals and candidates as possible back to work and as well as resuscitate the economy of the region, Jobberman, has helped put thousands of qualified Nigerians in paid employment in Northern Nigeria

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has expressed dismay over alleged subtle campaigns by “hired analysts” nudging the present administration to transfer the 104 Federal Unity Colleges (FUCs) to State Governments.

The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) has urged the federal government to provide a linkage between the National Housing Fund (NHF) and the Contributory Pension Fund Scheme to enable workers to access the funds for housing mortgages. The association stressed that such linkage is the way the funds would have meaningful impact on…