The TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady, said women had been overlooked at every stage of the pandemic. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images
The TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady, said women had been overlooked at every stage of the pandemic. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Mon 15 Feb 2021 01.00 EST
The UK’s equality watchdog is facing demands to investigate claims that ministers have sidelined key gender laws in their response to the Covid pandemic.
In the wake of a damning report from MPs that said the UK risked turning back the clock on gender equality, a coalition of organisations including the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Amnesty International, Save the Children and the Fawcett Society have accused the government of taking decisions that are deepening inequalities.
Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat condoling Mrs. Abimbola Jakande, the widow of the late Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, first civilian governor of Lagos State and former Minister of Works, at his residence in Ilupeju, Lagos…yesterday. With them are relatives of the Jakandes. PHOTO: NAN
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The remains of the late elder statesman and first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, was yesterday interred at the Vaults and Gardens private cemetery, Ikoyi, Lagos.
This is as many eminent Nigerians have continued to commiserate with the family of the deceased through condolence messages and visits.
A pump attendant dispensing petrol. PHOTO: FEMI ADEBESIN-KUTI
A Former President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has faulted the Petroleum Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) for announcing an increase in the pump price of gasoline.
Mr Peter Esele told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Saturday that PETROAN had no right to increase petrol pump price unilaterally.
On Feb. 8, the President of PETROAN, Dr Billy Gillis-Harry announced an increase in the retail price of fuel from N160 to N178 per litre. x
Findings by NAN correspondent showed that although filling stations in Benin had adjusted their prices upwards, none is selling for as high as N178 as announced by Billy Gillis.
A former Trade Union Congress president, Peter Esele, said the recent announcement of increment in fuel pump price by Petroleum Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) showed that the federal government is still subsidising petrol.
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