The Best And Worst Places To Be A Working Woman!

Norway, Sweden, Finland and Poland leads in The Economist “glass-ceiling index” which reveals countries where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. 

Combination of data on Labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity rights, higher education, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs and paternity rights as an additional measure comes into play in the study which indicates that in situations where new fathers take parental leave, mothers tend to return to the labour market, hence female employment is higher and the earnings gap between men and women is lower. 

The index corroborates United Nations' International Women's Day marked on March 8th.

Graph Source: The Economist

Yemi Osinbajo Turns 59 Today!

Nigeria's Vice President, Professor Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo SAN, tuned 59 on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. 

Here's wishing him many more fruitful and fulfilling years ahead. 

James Acholi's Driver Dies In Hospital!

Driver to the Late Nigerian Minister of Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi, SAN, who died with his wife and son in a ghastly crash on Sunday, March 6, 2016, long Kaduna- Abuja high way is dead.

Information disclosed that the driver was rushed to National Hospital, Abuja for treatment where he eventually died in the early hours of Monday, March 7. 

Zuma Visits Buhari!

South African President Jacob Zuma visits President Muhammadu Buhari the at the State House, Aso Villa, Abuja, Nigeria's capital on Tuesday, March 8.

Nancy Reagan To Be Buried On Friday!

Officials of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library disclosed on Monday, March 7, that the remains of Nancy Reagan will be laid to rest next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, on Friday during a private funeral at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday, March 11, 2016. 

The information stated that the public will have a chance to pay their last respects before the funeral on Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor Victoria McGrath, Three Others Die In Car Crash In Dubai!

One of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing survivors Victoria McGrath, from Weston, Connecticut, in the United States, has died in a car crash in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai.

According to the statement released by Joseph Aoun, Northeastern University President, McGrath was one of the two American university students killed in the Ferrari car accident in Dubai in the early hours of Sunday, March 6, 2016. 

Victoria McGrath, her roommate Priscilla Perez Torres, two other students Portuondo, and 24-year-old Nixon were in a Ferrari 458 Spider when it hit a pavement, crashed into a lamppost and split in two. 

Portuondo, McGrath and Torres died at the scene of the accident while Nixon died later in hospital.

McGrath was supposed to graduate this spring from Northeastern's school of business. 

EU Refugee Crisis, Norway, Portugal Open Doors!

In what seems like a sign that the key ingredient to solving Europe’s refugee crisis, which is EU’s beleaguered emergency asylum seeker mechanism,  could finally be working, Portugal and Norway are opening their doors to thousands of asylum seekers.

Adopted in September 2015, the emergency relocation plan, was aimed at moving 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece, Italy, to other EU countries. This is to reduce the burden on first countries of arrival, and to create an alternative to the chaotic marches by migrants as they journey deeper into Europe.