A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sesor Empowerment Foundation, on Sunday, empowered 106 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with funds to enable them to start their businesses. The Executive Director of the foundation, Ms Ier Jonathan-Ichaver disclosed this at an event to mark Mother’s Day in Lagos. Jonathan-Ichaver said the foundation was working with IDPs that were displaced Read More…
Day: 27 March 2022
Zelenskiy demands Western nations give arms to Ukraine, asks if they’re afraid of Moscow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visibly irritated, demanded that Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stockpiles to his country and asked whether they were afraid of Moscow. Several countries have promised to send anti-armour and anti-aircraft missiles as well as small arms but Zelenskiy said Kyiv was not getting what it Read More…
Fuel queues disappearing, electricity supply improving following Buhari’s summon of Ministers, others
It would seem that the summons by President Muhammadu Buhari of top-level officials in charge of power and petroleum have begun to yield fruit. Disturbed by the epileptic electricity supply and persistent fuel queues across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari, in the week under review, summoned Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, to a meeting at Read More…
Taliban ban women in Afghanistan from flying without male chaperone
The Taliban have told airlines in Afghanistan that women cannot board domestic or international flights without a male chaperone, two sources told Reuters on Sunday. The move comes after the Taliban backtracked on their previous commitment to open high schools to girls, a u-turn that shocked many Afghans and drew condemnation from humanitarian agencies and Read More…
Osinbajo scores APC high in infrastructure, agriculture, others
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says in eight years, the All Progressives Congress(APC)-led Federal Government has embarked on the largest investments in infrastructure and agriculture in Nigeria’s history. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday, said the vice president spoke on Saturday night at the APC convention, held at the Eagles Square, Abuja. The Read More…
300 volunteers at Oniru beach commemorate Global Recycling Day
It was a beautiful sight to behold on the morning of Saturday, 19 March 2022, as over 300 people living in different parts of Lagos volunteered to clean up one of the popular Island hotspots in Lagos State, as this was to commemorate Global Recycling Day which was themed “Recycling Fraternities”. It was an event Read More…
7 lessons I learned in the valley
In the winter of 1988, I arrived in Virginia Beach, VA, excited to begin graduate studies in Communication at Regent University. It was a bitterly cold winter. The only job I could find on campus was with the Grounds Crew. My responsibility was to cut down trees on a site that would later become the Read More…
Mending Great Ife Brand
Ile-Ife evokes memories of greatness, whether you are talking about the Town or the Gown. The Town is the courtyard of the progenitor of the Yoruba race, Oduduwa. It was in Ile-Ife, so the story goes, that the first dawn was willed into existence. As the cradle of an ethnic nationality, its people are used Read More…