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LASPOTECH Crisis: Management, Unions Must Embrace Dialogue – Resource Persons

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Kunle ADELABU The two resource persons – Dr (Mrs) Rosemary Daresi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Employment Relations & Human Resources Management, University of Lagos  (UNILAG), Akoka, Yaba, and Dr Olufunmi Ajose Harrison, the Director-General, Lagos State Public Service, Magodo, have recommended that both the management and the unions of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, must embrace dialogue if the crisis between them must be resolved. The two spoke at the seminar organized by the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, on Industrial relation and why workers should not go on strike. The…

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NUT To JAMB: Release Results of Candidates Found Innocent

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Nigerian Union of Teachers(NUT) has appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to release the results of the candidates who were not involved in examination malpractices during the 2019 UTME’s examinations. Its chairman for Lagos State wing, Mr Adesina Adedoyin, made the appeal on Tuesday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The union said the release should be for candidates who wrote the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and were found to be innocent. He said that the examination body should sieve the…

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100 Youths Attend Youth Entrepreneurship Summit In Ikorodu

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Jare OLUKOTUN About 100 youths attended the 9th edition of the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit (YES), themed, “Thinking Your Way Through Successful Entrepreneurship Guidance”. The summit, which was held recently at the Funcity in Ikorodu, was organized by the Golden Integrated Empowerment Foundation. The 20 widows present at the event were also given packs containing beverages and food items to mark the 2019 International Women’s Day. There were also display of hand-made articles and products made by some young entrepreneurs trained by Golden Integrated Empowerment Foundation. Hon. Babajimi Benson, Member, House…

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Ganiyat Kidney Transplant : Mother, Group Cry Out For Help

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Kunle ADELABU Mrs Sanni Iyabo Afusat, the mother of Miss Ganiyat Sanni, a 17 years old victim of chronic kidney disease,  has cried out to Nigerians for support for her daughter’s kidney transplant. She resides at Ori-Okuta in Imota, Imota Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Laos State, Southwest, Nigeria, with Ganiyat and two other children. According to Ganiyat’s medical report issued and signed by Dr T.I. Umeizudike, Consultant Nephrologist, on 26th of April, 2019, the cost of the transplant in Nigeria is put at N8, 500, 000. 00 Also in…

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Gov Amosun Converts Kutis’ Family House In Abeokuta To Heritage Museum

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Kunle ADELABU & Mariam AKINLOYE Tourism in Ogun State added another major landmark addition to its rich and invaluable cultural and tourism heritages as the government of the state made good its promise to convert the home of the legendary , popular and phenomenal family of the Ransome Kutis in Abeokuta into a tourist centre. The house, which is now renamed ‘The Kuti Heritage Museum’,  is located at NEPA Road, Isabo, Abeokuta, and was commissioned by the Ogun State Governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, on Friday, April 26,  as part of…

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Massive Potholes , Heavy Duty Vehicles’ Indiscriminate Parking, Two Menace Needing Urgent Confrontation On Sekumade Road

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Kunle ADELABU & Wale JAGUN Many major roads across Lagos State, especially Oshodi-Apapa, Ijora and others gave road users headaches today because of the failures of the three arms of government to proactively tackle the menace that started like a minor challenge but has been allowed to festered. The result is what we have today as motorists and commuters spend more hours in traffic due to the disturbing state of the roads, thereby constituting dangers to their lives and unreasonable loss of man hours. This scenario is what commuters and other road users in Ikorodu are contending…

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