Recently purchased N12 billion fire fighting trucks would be sent to the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, and Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano by the Federal Government. Sen. Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, announced this as he handed the eight firefighting trucks to the Federal Airport Authority Read More…
A NAN FEATURE Market leaders in Lagos State have cautioned traders’ associations not to impose uniform prices on their goods or engage in other unfair practices. On Monday, several market leaders issued the warning in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. They were reacting to concerns that traders’ associations unfairly Read More…
Top English Premier League clubsides, Chelsea and Leicester, have had to sack their managers after poor showings in the 2022/23 league season. After a disappointing run of defeats that has dropped the expensively assembled Chelsea squad to 11th in the Premier League, the London club announced on Sunday that manager Graham Potter has been fired. Read More…
Frustrated, after being humiliated in a 2-0 loss to Newcastle United on Sunday, Manchester United players met without manager Erik ten Hag, according to defender Luke Shaw, who offered a brutally honest appraisal of his team. “I’m not going to go too much into that, but the players had a bit of a chat in Read More…
Makhosazane Twala, 25, better known by her nickname, Khosi, has won the Big Brother Titans competition. The hosts, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu and Lawrence Maleka, made the announcement at Sunday’s season finale. This meant that Kanaga Ene placed second and Tsatsii placed third. On January 15th, 24 contestants from Nigeria and South Africa were introduced for the Read More…
Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, alerted Nigerians of the existence of a Twitter account fraudulently purporting to represent the Presidential Transition Council (PTC) on Sunday in Abuja. The PTC’s chairman is Mustapha. “The attention of the PTC has been drawn to a fake Twitter handle, @TransitionNgr (https://twitter.com/TransitionNgr) created by unscrupulous persons Read More…
In a unanimous decision victory over American Jermaine Franklin on Saturday at London’s 02 Arena, former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua returned to winning ways after suffering two straight losses. The 33-year-old Nigerian-British fighter was making his ring comeback after losing four straight fights to Ukrainian champion Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO, and Read More…
Environmental experts have raised concerns on the dangers of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in plastics in the country. They said this at a programme on National Inception and Scoping Workshop on the Circular and POPs free plastics in Africa Project on Friday in Lagos. The workshop was organised by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Read More…
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…
