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African oil women demand policy, fiscal incentives for gender equity
Policy and fiscal incentives, STEM education for the girl child, career growth opportunities for breeding mothers, and displacement cultural norms with task delivery competence form part of the numerous recommendations that pumped out from the gender and diversity debates at…
WIEN takes gender debate to SAIPEC 2023
Nigeria’s frontline gender right advocacy group, Women in Energy Network (WiEN), will from Wednesday in Lagos begin its arguments on gender inclusivity, equity and capacity optimization at the ongoing Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Conference (SAIPEC). The women rights group hosting…
How WIEN expands African battlefields for gender equity
Sopuruchi Onwuka The global war for gender equity is growing widened battlefields in Africa where female stalwarts are stepping forward with powerful programmes and advocacies that deliver statements on the determination of women and girls to unleash bottled up potentials…
NCDMB hits 54% Nigerian Content quotient
Charges indigenous companies on compliance Mid-way into a 10-year Strategic Road Map for enhanced indigenous participation and utilisation of local assets in oil and gas operations, industry regulator Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has recorded a 54 per…
UNN-ASUU protests withheld salaries by FG
Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Nigeria Nsukka Chapter, has protested the pro-rata October salary payment and backlog of 8-month salaries owed its members by the Federal Government.During the protest, theunion directed lecturers to…
Aging workforce: IMF report wants relaxed immigration rules for Africa
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports With aging population and predicted drop in overall population of industrialized western countries, it has become necessary for Europe and America to relax immigration rules and allow inflow of younger generation of Africans to repopulate…
Facebook, Twitter boot staff to maintain balance
Meta; the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp fired 11, 000 workers in a single day after reporting its biggest one-day loss on Wall Street in early February when the company’s worth plummeted by over 26% or about $230…
Energy pundits demand regulation on gender diversity
Professionals and technocrats in the energy industry have demanded government to evolve deliberate policies for gender balancing and diversity in the management and boards of public and private entities in the Nigerian corporate community, arguing that enhanced gender parity would…
Wabote bags National Excellence Award in Public Service
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, stood eminent with the “Distinguished Capacity Development Award” at the Nigeria Excellence Award in Public Service (NEAPS), byPresident Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR). The award was…
Fuel subsidy: The saga, the façade and the facts
Sopuruchi Onwuka As Nigeria enters political campaign mode in preparation for the 2023 general elections, government’s domestic petrol subsidy has also traditionally surged to new heights despite the highly glorified Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which ought to have activated deregulation…
