Appointments

THE Organization for Youth Betterment and Empowerment (OYBE) has commended the Ekiti State government for sacking inappropriate employees at the state’s house of assembly.   The group said if the employment of the sacked staff was legitimate, general public would be informed of the recruitment process and people would have participated in the exercise.   …

AN indigenous oil-marketing firm, Nigeria Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) Plc, has won the best safety compliant terminal award for the fourth consecutive year at the preeminent Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) honours’ event for tank farms and jetty operators in the nation’s coastline in 2014.    The Safety Chief, NIPCO Plc, Vitalis Ofoegbu, who received the…

NIGERIA'S serial entrepreneur and Courteville Business Solutions Managing Director, Bola Akindele, has been appointed to the board of Advisors of the East Africa Business Network (EABN).   EABN was established in 2010 in the United Kingdom to encourage investment, entrepreneurship and to advise multinationals on new and established markets in East Africa.  His appointment follows efforts…

A STUDENT of the British International School, Lagos has been recognized top in the 2014 Cambridge Examination series taken by learners in more than 9000 schools in 160 countries for excellent performance.   The recognition came through one of its student Miss Eseosa Idemudia, at the just concluded Cambridge Global Award programme.   According to…

WE live in an increasingly complex and sceptical global village where corporate scandals, stock market downturns, uncertain economies, threats of terrorism are constantly creating diminished trust in the corporate sector and its leaders.It is therefore pertinent that the corporate world needs to address these anxieties individually by demonstrating their positive impacts on society and collectively…

TWO Abia State Communities have benefited from the corporate social responsibility gesture of the Nigerian Breweries Plc (NBL) which erected, equipped and commissioned a six-classroom block for each of them.The benefiting communities schools were Umunneoma Primary in Obingwa Council area where the NBL's Aba Malting Plant is located and National High School Aba in Umuamara…

ANGLICAN Bishop of Oru Diocese, Godfrey Chukwunenye, has condemned the engagement of consultants by the Imo State government for the employment of 10,000 graduate job seekers into the state's civil and teaching services.Chukwunenye, at the weekend, faulted the practice adopted by the State government, during the second session of the first synod of the diocese…

FOR Nigeria to be among the best 20 best economies of the world in 2020 as envisaged, there is the need for a rapid paradigm shift from a consuming to a producing nation.The state co-ordinator of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Ogun State, Mr. Adebowale Ologbenla, made the observation while speaking to beneficiaries of…

THE United Kingdom Foreign Common Office, weekend, intensified efforts at training and empowering indigent groups and organisations within the Niger Delta states of Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom towards adopting the development initiatives mapped out by the British government to assit the local communities in the region.Already, the British government through the UK based advocacy…

THE Federal Government has approved the promotion of 896 workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), who qualified for promotion in 2009. They are billed to be promoted before the end of this month.The affected officers from level 02 to 17 will be promoted after passing the interview to be conducted by the…

THE monitoring process of the Ondo State Youth Empowerment Programme, which was started last year with disbursement of several millions of naira and distribution of hundreds of different vocational equipment, would begin this week, Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Yekinni Olanipekun has disclosed.About five hundred youths, drawn from the 18 local councils of the…

FIDELITY Bank Plc has announced the appointment of two experienced technocrats, Mr. Stanley Lawson and Alhaji Bashari Mohammed Gumel to join its board as independent directors.Independent Directors are board members whose appointments are based not necessarily on the volume of their shareholding but on the value that they bring to corporate governance as a result…