Babatunde Ogun is the National President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), an umbrella body of senior workers in the oil and gas sector of the economy. In this interview with DELE FANIMO, he spoke on...

• Pope calls for stronger action against ‘modern slavery’

AT the end of this year, there could be as many as 11 million children working in homes, on the streets and other nondescript settings as child labourers, a new report of the...

LOCAL council officials in the United States (U.S.) have joined the campaign to end terrorism in Nigeria as Nigerian Christians and their leaders from numerous denominations and associations in New Jersey came together at a rally over the weekend...

SIX months after the launch, many prominent Nigerians are yet to redeem their pledges at the special appeal fund for victims of the 2012 flood disaster.

Interestingly, some of those who pledged but were yet to redeem their vows, have gone ahead...

FOLLOWING the proscription and gazetting of some Islamist terror groups by the Federal Government, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned all deposit banks in the country to distance their operations from the proscribed groups and disclose...

THE Catholic women in Nigeria, under the aegis of National Council of Catholic Women Organisation (NCCWO), rose from a three-day retreat in Umuahia, Abia State capital, resolving to work with their Muslim sisters in the North and other...

THE Federal Government’s plan to reduce overheads in many of its agencies next year, as a way of tightening national budget, could worst hamper the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), its Director-General, Prof. Tunde...

A DOCUMENTARY on the efforts at various levels of government and in different quarters, public and private, towards achieving stable electricity supply in the country will soon hit the nation’s television screens for all to watch.

Titled...

EFFORTS by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) to authenticate academic certificates and its recent arrest of 41 members of staff of NIMC have left government officials jittery over the integrity of their...

• To demolish kidnappers’ dens

EDO State has put in place new security measures around principal government functionaries, covering particularly the governor, his deputy, Secretary to State Government (SSG) and Head of Service (HOS), as no...

HE was like a tiger. His body was always ready for action, even at 86. But Wednesday, Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju, a.k.a. Fatai Rolling Dollar, had the final action - he breathed his last at the Ahmadiyya Hospital, Agbado-Ijaiye, Lagos.

He was born...

• Infections, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV, others implicated

• Child needs N300,000 monthly for dialysis

MEDICAL experts have alerted to the rising cases of chronic kidney disease in the nation’s children, which they blame on infections...

• Laments indiscipline, others in Police Force

• Gowon faults zoning of elective offices

IN unequivocal terms, President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday declared that the June 12, 1993 presidential election widely acclaimed to have been won by...

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in partnership with the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Tuesday kicked off an introspective anti-corruption campaign aimed at purging Customs officers of corrupt tendencies.

The development...