Novak Djokovic was made to work hard by Casper Ruud in blustery conditions before he got past the unseeded Norwegian 7-5 6-3 on Sunday to reach the Italian Open final. The Serbian had to save two set-points in the first set before finding his groove to reach his 10th title clash in Rome and remain Read More…
Two goals from Sadio Mane just after halftime eased champions Liverpool to a 2-0 win over 10-man Chelsea in the Premier League season’s first heavyweight clash at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The game never threatened to live up to the eight-goal thriller when the side’s met in July, and it proved all-too-easy for Liverpool to Read More…
Ten airlines, including Air France and KLM, will not fly into Nigeria from tomorrow, the day international flights resume in the country. The others are Etihad, Rwandair, Lufthansa, TAAG Angola Airlines, Air Namibia, Royal Air Maroc, South African Airways and Cape Verde airlines. While South African and Cape Verde airlines were barred because international flights Read More…
…Reopens Five Facilities No fewer than 30 health facilities across the State were sealed in the months of July and August, 2020 by the Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, for non-compliance with regulatory standards. The Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Abiola Idowu, who disclosed this today at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, explained Read More…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday called on road users to shun impatience while driving, to prevent unnecessary human and material losses during the 2020 “Ember” months in Lagos. The Sector Commander of FRSC in Lagos State, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Read More…
A group, the All Electricity Protection Forum, says it will sue the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), if the recent increment in electricity tariffs is not reversed. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Gideon Balogun, on Wednesday in Lagos decried the tariffs increment as announced by the electricity Distribution Companies on Sept. 1. Balogun said the increment Read More…
The Inter-African Coffee Organisation (IACO) said on Wednesday it has jointly launched a $14.3 million intervention programme to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on the continent’s coffee sector. IACO said it has teamed up with the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) and the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) to design an emergency intervention programme Read More…
Karolina Muchova took advantage of an error-prone Venus Williams to advance 6-3 7-5 into the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. With this, she handed the two-times champion her first opening round loss at the tournament. Muchova broke Williams to start the match. She deployed a wide variety of shot-making, including a pinpoint Read More…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Tuesday called for remodeling of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) to increase traffic and revenue. Sanwo-Olu made the call in Ikeja when the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) management paid him a courtesy visit, ahead of the re-opening of airspace for international flights. He advised the Read More…
The Office of Surveyor-General of the Federation (OSGF) has mapped out suspected locations of cannabis plantations across the country. Mr Yusuf Aro-Lambo, Principal Surveyor, OSGF, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja, when he made presentation at the 2020 Virtual Survey Coordination Conference and Meeting of the Advisory Board on Survey Training, organised by the Read More…
