Nigerian Army partners LAWMA in waste disposal

Lagos INEC receives final PVCs

Buhari inaugurates 13-km Lagos Mass Transit Blue Line Rail

Justina Omogbai, Sabo hero cop, gets IGP’s commendation

Cleric sentenced to life on eight counts of sexually abusing students

LP ends Lagos turmoil with new caretaker committee

Buhari inaugurates 32-metric-tonne-per-hour Lagos rice mill

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday opened a 32-metric tonne per hour Lagos Rice Mill in Imota, Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb, to boost Nigeria's rice revolution. The Lagos Rice Mill, Imota is a two x 16 metric tonnes per hour mill on an 8.5-hectare piece of land. The project requires around 240,000 metric tonnes of paddy per year to generate 2.5 million bags of 50kg of rice. Buhari, who arrived at Imota around 5:30 p.m., was accompanied by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru, Mr Colinious Ojelabi, Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State, and Mr Ganiyu Solomon, Chairman, APC Presidential Campaign Committee, Lagos. Ms

Buhari unveils “game-changing” billion-dollar deep seaport

To assist alleviate port congestion and position Nigeria as a transhipment hub for Africa, the country unveiled a Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday. The project cost $1 billion. President Muhammadu Buhari has made infrastructure development a cornerstone of his administration's economic policy in the hopes that it will assist the governing party gain support from voters before the presidential election next month. The Lagos state government and the China Harbour Engineering Company and the Tolaram company each control 25% of the future Lekki Deep Sea Port. "This is a transformative project, game changer project. This project could create at least 200,000

Investors, Exporters window: Naira gains 0.05%

Wednesday's exchange rate for the naira against the dollar in the Investors and Exporters window was 461.25 naira per dollar. When compared to the value of 461.50 that it was traded for on Tuesday, this figure reflected an increase of 0.05 per cent in value. On Wednesday, the open indicative rate finished at a value of N461 to one dollar. Throughout the course of the day's trade, the exchange rate fluctuated widely, reaching a high of N462 to the dollar before finally settling at N461.25. During the course of the day's trade, the price of one dollar in naira dropped to a low of

December is not a deadline – don’t kill yourself

By Ugoma Johnson The Christmas season which is a celebration that is peculiar to December is always interesting and fun-filled. The joy of the season is such that is felt by all, including none Christians. Most businesses seem to boom more during the Christmas season and most business people always look forward to it. It is also an interesting time for employees as most organisations give a long holiday for workers to rest and have family time with their loved ones. The excitement, expectation, and joy that accompany the Christmas season are such that can hardly be compared to any other season. However, for

Thank God! I survived

A survivor's story of a pilot's plane crash experience By Tolu Ita Who would have thought that a flight that started in a clear blue sky would end up in a crash? But thank God, I survived. It was my CPL (commercial pilot licence) qualifying solo cross-country flight on September 12, 2003. I had completed the flight from Zaria to Jos, Jos to Abuja, and was on the last leg from Abuja to Zaria. Despite VFR (visual flight rules) weather in Zaria and my alternate, Kaduna, I had delayed departure for Abuja weather to improve. Tolu Soyemi (now Ita) on her way to the

The wisdom of old age

By Ugoma Johnson One of the biggest mistakes that young people, especially teenagers make sometimes is to see their parents as 'old school' to the point that they begin to think that they do not have anything to offer in this 21st century As much as I agree that most parents do not understand the dynamism of parenting the millennials, however, it will be foolish of me, or anyone for that matter to live in the delusion that the older generation is completely useless in the overall scheme of things as it relates to parenting the 21st-century child. The older generation might not