The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) said that it had received complaints of child defilement against Femi Olaleye, a medical doctor. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, the executive secretary of the agency made this known on the agency’s Twitter handle on Thursday. She said that the agency received a complaint of child abuse on March Read More…
Rescue workers evacuated a total of 1,025 people to safety from homes and hotels as a wildfire raged in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, the country’s disaster authority AFAD said on Thursday. Forty firefighting aircraft and 850 personnel joined efforts to contain the wildfire, which started near Mersin’s Gülnar district along the Mediterranean coast, Read More…
Dr. Ramond Moronkola, a consultant cardiologist with Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), on Thursday cautioned Nigerians to be conscious of what they eat and drink, to decrease the risk of heart-related diseases. He said many of the primary foods and beverages being eaten were responsible for heart-related diseases. Examples of these are bread, processed Read More…
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a “moment of great sadness” for him and his family and that her loss would be “deeply felt” around the world. Senior royals had Read More…
Recently, my boss sent me a video clip made by Nigeria’s popular Nollywood actor cum philanthropist, Williams Uchemba where he called the attention of parents to something he said is becoming a norm in schools, especially in the western world. According to him, most teachers in some schools abandon the job they were employed to Read More…
Prince Usman Hamzat, Chairman, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, has said that 1,600 residents have made the most from an ongoing free grassroots health outreach organised by the council. Hamzat, who disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday, when he visited the ongoing exercise, said that the medical outreach was to achieve health care Read More…
The male gender has been advised to contribute to house chores for the good of the family. Mrs. Lola Vivour-Adeniyi, the Executive Secretary, Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), gave the advice on Wednesday at the Katangowa Market, during advocacy against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), tagged: “Men Wey Sabi”. ”Some women have Read More…
Dr. Chibuki Aigbe, The Practice Manager of One Wellness Centre, says the fertility clinic is ready to increase the success rate of In vitro fertilization (IVF) in the country. Aigbe made this known at a breakfast session organized by the centre with its fertility specialists and unveiling of its facility in Lagos. IVF is a Read More…
A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by a Read More…
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor, has appointed Tayo Bamgbose-Martins the new Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development. Bamgbose-Martins replaces Idris Salako who resigned on Monday after a seven-storey building collapsed in the highbrow Oniru. Salako vacated the position after overseeing a ministry under whose watch Nigeria’s biggest city witnessed successive collapses since Sanwo-Olu assumed office. Read More…
