The countdown to the third anniversary of Lagos Metropolitan newspaper (LM) has begun. The online publication was launched at the onset of the global pandemic – COVID-19 – on 13 April 2020. Since then it has been an arduous journey that has taken LM through many encounters, one of which was the #endsars crisis, which Read More…
Commercial bus drivers on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway started a protest on Wednesday against extortion by so-called “Agbero” touts at the Toll-Gate portion of the motorway. The demonstration was regrettable since it caused undue agony and suffering to the populace, stranded commuters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota. The Toll-gate sector of the Read More…
Tribalism is to Africa what racism is to the West. It is the African version of black-on-black violence, except that ours is unmatched in the crudity of the implements of violence and the tenacity with which we insist on handing over the chalice of hate to the coming generation. Some people are not content with Read More…
A memorial walk was held in Dr. Adetokunbo Alakija’s honour by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Waka Community International Foundation, Q-Life Family Clinic, and Health Emergency Initiative (HEI). The walk started at the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy in Lekki on Saturday and went through the Ikoyi bridge before returning. The late Alakija was the Read More…
Dr Mark Animal TV Show, a new wildlife-focused television series for children aged seven to fourteen, has been launched by Wild Africa Fund. This was said on Saturday in Lagos by Wild Africa Fund Nigeria’s Representative, Mr Festus Iyorah. “The kiddies show premieres this Saturday and every other Saturday at 8.45 a.m. on Silverbird TV Read More…
The Anambra State Government says it detected more than 8,000 Tuberculosis (TB), cases against the targeted 13,000 cases in the state in 2022. Dr Afam Obidike, the state’s Commissioner for Health, gave the statistics at a news conference to mark 2023 World Tuberculosis Day, in Awka on Friday. World TB Day, is commemorated every March Read More…
The Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government, Chief Ganiyu Egunjobi, urged Muslim believers on Friday to use the fasting month of Ramadan to pray for the stability and development of the nation. In his Ramadan greeting to Muslims in the local government area and throughout the nation on Friday, Egunjobi made the request. He exhorted Read More…
THE International Criminal Court, ICC, on March 17, 2023 added a comic dimension to the tragic war in Ukraine by issuing warrants of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. The ICC, a body notorious for the persecution of people in the bad books of the European Union, EU, Read More…
Wild Africa Fund has partnered Laycon Cares Foundation (LCF) and its client, Laycon, to raise awareness on illegal bushmeat trade in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Festus Iyorah, Nigeria Representative Wild Africa Fund on Friday in Lagos. The statement said that Wild Africa Fund had signed agreement with the Big Read More…
Emirates Airline reported on Friday that it had “substantial” sums of ticket sales money stranded in Nigeria and has made little headway remitting the monies out of the continent’s largest economy. Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s minister of aviation, had earlier told reporters that the Dubai-based airline had gotten the majority of its funding outside of Nigeria Read More…
