The Managing Director of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo, has emphasized the need for capacity building among employees of financial institutions for improved operations. He made this remark at a 3-day yearly Internal Control and Audit Conference organised by the bank in Lagos. According to the banker, training acquired personally and arranged by corporate organisations […]
Organised labour on Thursday, said that the threat by governors to retrench workers if the proposed N30,000 wage agreed upon by the Tripartite Committee is implemented was uncalled for and tantamount to reneging on a joint agreement. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) maintained that the governors threat to sack workers was not new in the […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has restated its commitment to further educate and enlighten investors in the Nigerian capital market to enhance their ability to make informed investment decisions. The Acting Director General of SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk, who gave the assurance on Monday at the Planning and writing workshop for the development of […]
Workers in Ondo State have threatened to embark on strike effective Tuesday, November 13, if the state government failed to pay their outstanding salaries and emoluments. The labour unions, in their letter addressed to the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, alleged that the governor had not been sincere in the administration of the N20 billion Paris […]
The Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, has charged corporate entities and other stakeholders in the global economic system to commit more resources to social protection programmes in order to address the burgeoning challenges of inequality, socio-economic deprivations, unemployment and poverty globally. Ryder, who gave the charge in his welcome address delivered […]
The Federal Government has indicated its readiness to continue the payment of stipend to beneficiaries of the N-Power 2016 Batch 1 beyond December this year. A statement issued to confirm the position of government on the extension of the stipend payment by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Office of the […]
Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) have advocated the need for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to begin to sanction all the Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that failed to remit tax collections as a means of deterring others. The President of the Institute, Razak Jaiyeola, expressed this […]
BudgIT, a civil society organization committed to transparency in public finance in the country, has expressed its concern over Nigeria’s poor ranking for the second time in the global Commitment To Reducing Inequality (CPI) index despite government’s commitment to tackle inequality challenge in the country.. Nigeria was ranked 157th out of 157 countries covered in […]
The Nigerian Governors Forum on Wednesday expressed its stance on the ongoing national minimum wage issues, maintaining that it is not against the upward review of the minimum wage for workers. The Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, who disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the governors’ meeting […]
The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), Mr. Akintunde Oyebode, has disclosed that at least 8000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and allied businesses accessed approximately N6 billion since the establishment of the Fund in 2016. In addition, the SMEs management expert said that about 15,000 jobs hadbeen created by […]