When a society is on the inexorable path to Sodom and Gomorrah, something unbelievably bestial and savagely subhuman usually happens to shock the populace back to the path of rectitude. We have been having so many killings all over the country that we were getting used to them. We were becoming unshockable. Then Hanifa happened. Read More…
An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was unclear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilt into the sea. Nigeria’s Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) said on Thursday that flames had engulfed Read More…
Mrs Arinola Ogbara-Banjoko, the Coordinator, Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile Court) , says that the court prosecuted 1,120 traffic offenders in 2021. Ogbara-Banjoko stated this while speaking with newsmen on Thursday during the 3rd Mobile Court Quarterly Sensitisation and Awareness Exercise Zero Tolerance for Violation of Traffic Offences. She said that of the prosecutions carried Read More…
As part of reforms at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), the Federal Government has said that the Bureau would soon deploy an Online Assets Declaration Portal that would allow for enhanced storage and retrieval of data. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made this known at a media briefing in Read More…
A university lecturer, Prof. Christian Madu, says growing firewood wholesale markets in the country remained a great threat to the dwindling forest ecosystem. There had been emerging wholesale markets for firewood across the country recently. On the stretch of Nike Lake-Nsukka Road, there are about two major emerging wholesale firewood markets with at least 30 Read More…
Alhaji Ganiyu Egunjobi, the Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State, on Monday presented N3,993,793,829.29 as 2022 budget before the Council’s Legislative Arm for ratification. Egunjobi, in his presentation at the council’s legislative house, said that the budget would address developmental challenges for future prosperity. According to him, the proposal is aimed Read More…
The Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) has emerged the best polytechnic in Nigeria for the third consecutive time in the Webometrics ranking released in January 2022. The Deputy Registrar, YABATECH, Mr Joe Ejiofor, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Ejiofor attributed the success to the Read More…
Ikeja Electric Plc says its 2022 targets include growth in energy which will increase supply across its network. The electricity Distribution Company says it has outlined several projects for 2022 across its six business Units – Shomolu, Oshodi, Abule-Egba, Ikorodu, Ikeja and Akowonjo. Mrs Folake Soetan, Chief Executive Officer, Ikeja Electric, made the disclosure while Read More…
The Director-General, Lagos State Sports Commission, (LSSC), Oluwatoyin Gafaar has said the installation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) for Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere would be ready in two weeks. Gafaar made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. He said the upgrade was to meet Read More…
Former Inter Milan midfielder Christian Eriksen has joined English Premier League (EPL) club side Brentford on a deal until the end of the season. The move which has come just seven months after the Dane suffered a cardiac arrest makes the Bees the first EPL club to make a move on transfer deadline day. The Read More…