The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reprimanded an airstrike that “hit a kindergarten” in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, with the EU calling for respect for international law protecting civilians. Rebel authorities in the Ethiopian province of Tigray claimed that a kindergarten had been bombed Friday by Ethiopia’s air force, while the government in Read More…
Despite an early morning rain on Saturday, enthusiasm remained high for numerous young Nigerians who partook in a scheduled solidarity march for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi in Port Harcourt Rivers State. The march was a show of support for Obi, a former presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party Read More…
Fire razed Filmhouse Cinema at the Apapa Shopping Mall in Apapa Lagos State on Friday. Activities were going on as usual in the mall when customers and workers started perceiving the smell of burning substances, emergency workers alongside curious customers in the mall traced the smell of the burning substances to the cinema that had been Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has apologised for the hardship road users face on the Berger-OPIC axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while encouraging them to endure. Forosola Oloyede, the acting federal controller of works in Lagos, said: “The government feels the pains of the people, especially residents of Lagos and Ogun states, who are at the Read More…
John Odafe Asiemo, popularly known as Daddy Showkey, a veteran singer, has spoken in support of the two female supernumerary police officers who were suspended for uploading a video on TikTok. In the viral video captioned “sisters that slay together, work together”, both officers are featured in an assortment of pictures where they are seen Read More…
Lagos State is planning to build an Infectious Disease Research Institute, to prepare for the next pandemic and curtail the spread of Tuberculosis (TB), Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, speaking at a dinner organized by Stop TB Partnership Nigeria, as part of the High-Level Mission on Domestic Resource Mobilisation to end TB in the country, revealed that Read More…
Peter Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespectacled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians’ anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid. Obi, 61, has generated substantial buzz among younger voters in Africa’s most populous democracy, where the average age is 18, but the president – and Read More…
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has declared that the state enjoys the pride of employing the best higher education policy in Nigeria. He made this assertion while delivering the keynote address of the Maiden Edition of the Lagos State University Post Graduate Students’ Association of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (LASUPGSAHRIR) Read More…
Billy Tokunbo, a motorist has been arrested by Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly assaulting a policeman and also driving against the traffic in the Isolo/Okota area of the state. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s spokesperson, confirmed the arrest on his verified Twitter handle on Friday. He said, “Billy Tokunbo, who drove Read More…
Spotify, an online music streaming platform, says it is committed to magnifying talents and content creators from Nigeria. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music, Sub Saharan Africa, disclosed this when Spotify hosted celebrities, media, influencers and fans to celebrate “Lagos’ status as a city of culture-shifters, innovators, and tastemakers in Lagos State”. Okumu in a Read More…
