In picture above: Vladimir Zylinski is an election observer for voting rights movement Golos. He and Golos are on the register of “foreign agents.” Handout via REUTERS Since late 2020, Russia has added dozens of Kremlin critics to its register of “foreign agents.” Reuters contacted them to find out how the designation has changed their Read More…
Seventy-Five primary school pupils in Mushin were inducted into the Cakasa Road Safety Club by the Federal Road Safety Commission on Wednesday, 30 March 2022 at the club’s inauguration at New City Primary School, Mushin. The Cakasa Road Safety Club is an initiative of Cakasa Nigeria Limited and its CSR arm, Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation. In Read More…
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sesor Empowerment Foundation, on Sunday, empowered 106 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with funds to enable them to start their businesses. The Executive Director of the foundation, Ms Ier Jonathan-Ichaver disclosed this at an event to mark Mother’s Day in Lagos. Jonathan-Ichaver said the foundation was working with IDPs that were displaced Read More…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visibly irritated, demanded that Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stockpiles to his country and asked whether they were afraid of Moscow. Several countries have promised to send anti-armour and anti-aircraft missiles as well as small arms but Zelenskiy said Kyiv was not getting what it Read More…
It would seem that the summons by President Muhammadu Buhari of top-level officials in charge of power and petroleum have begun to yield fruit. Disturbed by the epileptic electricity supply and persistent fuel queues across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari, in the week under review, summoned Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, to a meeting at Read More…
The Taliban have told airlines in Afghanistan that women cannot board domestic or international flights without a male chaperone, two sources told Reuters on Sunday. The move comes after the Taliban backtracked on their previous commitment to open high schools to girls, a u-turn that shocked many Afghans and drew condemnation from humanitarian agencies and Read More…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says in eight years, the All Progressives Congress(APC)-led Federal Government has embarked on the largest investments in infrastructure and agriculture in Nigeria’s history. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday, said the vice president spoke on Saturday night at the APC convention, held at the Eagles Square, Abuja. The Read More…
It was a beautiful sight to behold on the morning of Saturday, 19 March 2022, as over 300 people living in different parts of Lagos volunteered to clean up one of the popular Island hotspots in Lagos State, as this was to commemorate Global Recycling Day which was themed “Recycling Fraternities”. It was an event Read More…
In the winter of 1988, I arrived in Virginia Beach, VA, excited to begin graduate studies in Communication at Regent University. It was a bitterly cold winter. The only job I could find on campus was with the Grounds Crew. My responsibility was to cut down trees on a site that would later become the Read More…
Ile-Ife evokes memories of greatness, whether you are talking about the Town or the Gown. The Town is the courtyard of the progenitor of the Yoruba race, Oduduwa. It was in Ile-Ife, so the story goes, that the first dawn was willed into existence. As the cradle of an ethnic nationality, its people are used Read More…