Mr. Oladapo Sulu, President, Engineering Forum of Nigerians (EFN), United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday has promised to team up with local manufacturers and engineers to increase access to markets abroad and boost export. The EFN-UK President pledged this at a hybrid monthly seminar organized by the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE), with the theme: Read More…
Year: 2022
Police investigates boy’s death after injections
The Police Command in Lagos has begun an investigation into the death of a young boy who died after some injections had been supposedly administered to him in a hospital in Ogombo area of Lagos. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, confirmed the situation on Thursday. Hundeyin said that the Read More…
LASG seeks better conduct of physical planning and building control appeals
Mr. Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesman for Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has on Thursday entrusted the Lagos State Physical Planning and Building Control Appeals Committee to develop strategies to restore sanity in the construction sector. Sanusi stated that the ministry’s commissioner, Mr. Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins, had given the advice at the opening Read More…
Comedian Trevor Noah to leave ‘The Daily Show’ after seven years
Comedian Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, said he was going to leave the programme after hosting it for seven years, indicating he wanted to dedicate more time to stand-up comedy. The 38-year-old comedian – who moved to the United States in 2011 and was born in Johannesburg, South Africa Read More…
LCDA boss donates 1,000 furniture items to schools in Orile-Agege
Some primary and junior secondary schools in Orile-Agege have taken delivery of no fewer than 1,000 pieces of furniture donated to them by the Orile-Agege Local Development Council Area (LCDA). Mr. Johnson Babatunde, Executive Chairman of the LCDA, told newsmen while making the donation of chairs and tables on Thursday that the gesture was borne Read More…
The elite has great role to play in protecting Nigeria – Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, in his welcome address at the 62 years Independence Public lecture in Abuja on Thursday, has said that the elite has a great role to play in protecting the nation, Nigeria, given the issue of restoration of peace in parts of the country. The “Elites and National Unity” lecture, was organised by Read More…
Banks’ USSD debt increases to N80bn – Telecom operators
Banks’ Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) debt has increased to N80 billion from the N42billion reported in 2021 the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has said. Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, the President of ALTON, divulged this at the ICT Growth Conference 2.0 organised by the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA), on Thursday in Lagos. Read More…
FG to train 35,000 registered residents for vocational training Initiative in Lagos – Bank-Olemoh
The Federal Government has said that it aims at training 35,000 Lagos State residents who registered for its Project T-MAX (TVET Maximisation) initiative on various vocational skills. The pilot project is part of the Federal Government’s vow to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030. Lagos is one of the seven states for Read More…
PDP primary: Supreme Court upholds Adeleke’s election, dismisses Babayemi’s suit
The July 16 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governorship primary election that produced the Osun Governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, as its candidate was upheld by the Supreme Court, on Thursday. In a judgment delivered by Justice Amina Augie, one of the five-member panel said that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the suit after counsel for the plaintiff, Adebayo Read More…
CNS Cup: States push for silverware as competition enters quarterfinals
The Kwara contingent maintained their impressive run at the ongoing 19th edition of the Chief of Naval Staff Cup as they defeated their counterpart from Osun 3-0 on Wednesday to set up a quarter-final clash with Ekiti State. Despite defeating Kano boys 3-0, the lads from Bauchi failed to reach the next round of the Read More…