The Dangote Group recently partnered the ministry of environment as part of its activities to enhance the policy on good environment. The Group sponsored the 9th National Council on Environment. This is part of its efforts in tackling environmental problems bedevilling Nigeria.

In the last few weeks, Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, Governor of Rivers State has been under public glare in his face-off with certain regulatory agencies and political and economic institutions in the country over sundry issues. Ordinarily, these issues could have been swept under the carpet had it not been for certain undercurrents, interpretations and colorations they have acquired within the same period.

L-R: Mr. Segun Aina, Enterprise Solution Manager Dell Technology; Ms. Annie Odo-Effiong, Client Product Makerting Manager, Anglophone East, West Africa, Dell Technology and Mr. Femi Babajide, Marketing Development Manager Inter Corporation, at the transforming Healthcare with Technology Forum, organized by Dell in partnership with Inter in Lagos. Photo: EMMANUEL ANYANWU

The Directorate of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has dismissed report of existence of killer gas in the market just as the stakeholders in the gas industrial sub sector have expressed the need to review the standard of the liquefied petroleum gas cylinders and other equipment.

Vice-President Namadi Mohammed Sambo will formally open the 2013 IoD Convention and Exhibition beginning at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on May 16, 2013.

The experience in Nigeria over the years has been a harrowing one for pensioners as payment of their pension is delayed by undue bureaucracy or outright embezzlement of the money meant for their payment by pension officials. Cases of death of pensioners occasioned by the strenuous processes they go through in an effort to collect their payment has been rampant. Our poorly misunderstood social contract as well as our current poor record-keeping relating to pension scheme has not helped matters.
Those who tamper with pension schemes do the greatest injustice and injury to society by depriving the retirees their entitlements. It is the worst form of labour abuse by inflicting festering wounds on the moral compass of the society. It is structural inequality, prejudice and human rights abuse.

Chibuike Amaechi

The Rivers State Government under Governor Chibuike Amaechi instituted the Public Private Partnership initiative where the public sector can partner the private sector in the financing, development, implementation and management of infrastructure and provision of services in Rivers State. The PPP was initiated to tackle the complex issues associated with projects in order to meet the public demands and ensure effective and efficient projects delivery and stimulate private sector interest in participating in profitable social development projects through partnership with the public sector.

Oteh

By Dr. Fred Omoruyi
Abuja-based Investment Banker and Capital Market Analyst   

With the fresh onslaught against Ms. Arunma Oteh and her leadership of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) predicated on the claim that she is not qualified to be the director general of the SEC, the House of Representatives which had passed a resolution asking President Goodluck Jonathan to effect Oteh's removal on this basis has passed yet another resolution asking the President to obey the initial resolution on her removal.

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (Smedan) in collaboration with the National Productivity Centre (NPC) will next month, organise a two-day National workshop with the theme “Work Place Challenge in the Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector. The workshop, which comes up in Lagos, is expected to bring together key players in the SME sector of the economy.