The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said on Wednesday that from January to December 2022, they responded to 1,682 incidents. This was contained in a statement from Lagos by Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who is the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA. Oke-Osanyintolu said that the collected data showed that there were new patterns in emergency situations Read More…
The United States Supreme Court denied a lawsuit by a group of New York weapons retailers against a slew of Democratic-backed gun-control legislation enacted by the state last year, which the firms claimed damaged their bottom lines. The justices dismissed the dealers’ request to stay the legislation, some of which placed gun safety standards on Read More…
The Church of England will refuse to allow same-sex couples to marry in its churches, according to plans unveiled on Wednesday, in which the centuries-old organisation stated that marriage is between a man and a woman. Bishops, one of the three parts of the Church’s governing body called the General Synod, came up with the Read More…
Ukraine’s interior minister and a toddler were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into and set fire to a nursery in a Kyiv suburb. Separately, Ukraine said its soldiers again thwarted Russian advances on the frontline city of Bakhmut in the east, hundreds of kilometres (miles) distant, where both Read More…
Libraries exist within the formal and informal sectors of the learning ecosystem. They are very important to learning in schools and in the different communities where they live all over Africa. They are critical for achieving an inclusive, equitable, and quality education where no one is left behind including those who are in employment and Read More…
The path that Nigeria’s debt is headed down is manageable. The country’s Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said on Wednesday that the government had no plans to borrow money from foreign capital markets and that it planned to make major changes to its large debt service-to-revenue ratio throughout the year. The government of Nigeria spent Read More…
Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya is running for governor of Niger State for the All-Progressives’ Grand Alliance (APGA). She wants things to change. She is an award-winning innovator, an ideation specialist, a serial social entrepreneur, a lawyer, an author, a publisher, and a mentor, and most importantly Khadijah is a mother, who calls herself, the Womb, and a Read More…
Blessing Oladeji, CEO, Octave Analytics in response to government corruption is vying for the Lagos Central Senatorial seat on the platform of the Young Progressives Party, YPP. He spoke to LM’s Nkanu Egbe recently. I think I went online and I tried to understand who you are; you happen to be in the tech environment, Read More…
The Central Bank of Nigeria says that its most recent project, redesigning the naira, will help the country’s many security problems, which range from terrorism to kidnapping, get better. Shamsudeen Imam, Senior Manager, Currency Operations Department, CBN, stated at a programme on Tuesday at the Gombe International Market that circumstances where criminals demanded ransom would Read More…
Tuesday’s Investors’ and Exporters’ window naira-dollar rate was 461.50. The value rose 0.04 per cent from Monday’s 461.67. Tuesday’s open indicative rate was N460.25/$. Before settling at N461.50, the day’s highest exchange rate was N462. During the day’s trade, the naira fell to 440 per dollar. Tuesday’s Investors’ and Exporters’ window trades totalled N117.63 million.
