A 30-year-old man was detained by members of the Police Rapid Response Squad (RRS) for allegedly carrying out an armed robbery in the Ketu neighbourhood of Lagos. This is stated in a statement that was published on its official Twitter account on Thursday. The culprit, a resident of 21, Taiwo Street, off Chinatown Ogudu, was Read More…
Blessing Mejulu, 50, was accused of drug trafficking by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Two counts of alleged trafficking in Cannabis sativa and methamphetamine are brought against the suspect. According to the prosecutor, Mr. Lambert Nor, the offence was committed on November 13 at Read More…
Food security and the expansion of made in Nigeria products, according to the Federal Government, are two of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) administration’s lasting legacies that have been widely understated. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, made this statement on Thursday in Abuja at the ninth instalment of the “PMB Administration. Read More…
The National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, located in Okota, Isolo, Lagos State, has been approved for second reading by the House of Representatives. The bill’s passing will make courses in entrepreneurship, innovation, and development studies available to Nigerians in general as well as the residents of Okota and Isolo in Lagos State and its Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts, and Culture, Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, received the “Tourism Amazon” of the year 2022 award from the Association of Tourism and Travel Writers of Nigeria (ATTWON) on Wednesday. She and the other recipients of the award received it in Lagos at the ATTWON quarterly tourism parliament and awards ceremony. Read More…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Mr. Fola Tinubu, Managing Director of Primero Transport Services Ltd., operator of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system in Lagos State, organised a road show in support of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate. When speaking on Wednesday during the group’s road show’s second batch in the vicinity Read More…
The 1996 World Food Summit defined food security as, “…when all people, at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” In Africa, food security is closely tied to sustainable agriculture. A report on food security Read More…
The Igbo-Ukwu bronzes will be restored and preserved in the National Museum in Lagos thanks to a grant from the Bank of America Arts Conservation Project 2022 worth US$40,000. This information was released in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr. Abba Tijani, Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM). According Read More…
Oladipo-Daniel Oyebanjo, better known by his stage name as D’Banj, has been detained as part of an ongoing investigation into the misappropriation of money for the N-Power programme, according to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). This assertion was made in a statement issued by the Commission’s spokeswoman, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, Read More…
The newly-installed protem National Exco of the Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) congratulated the Body of Benchers (BoB) and all newly admitted attorneys to the Nigerian Bar on Wednesday. At the BoB conference hall in Abuja on December 6 (yesterday), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the chairman of the BoB, called 4,711 recent law graduates to Read More…
