Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: Jens Meyer/AP, REUTERS/Denis Balibouse. Breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding and sports climbing won a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics when the International Olympic Committee ratified their inclusion on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach said. The Paris 2024 organising committee had last year proposed the four sports for inclusion and was waiting on a final Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: REUTERS. A youth leader in Surulere, Lagos, Mr Adedeji Adeoti, has narrated how young people in the area secured the community from attack by hoodlums during the recent EndSARS protest. Adeoti told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday that the concerned youths had to safeguard the community because “it’s Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Image Credits: Getty Images. Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey says he is ready to make his debut at Manchester City on Saturday and is confident he can help his new team win silverware. Arsenal signed the 27-year-old Ghana international from Atletico Madrid on transfer deadline day for 50 million euros (45 million pounds). “The objective of Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes President Muhammadu Buhari has described sports as crucial to fostering unity and national development of the country. The president said this on Friday in Abuja at the formal unveiling of the renamed Moshood Abiola Stadium and exhibition to mark the 2020 June 12, Democracy Day. The president, represented by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says the Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) in Lagos will not resume yet in spite of the gradual easing of COVID-19 lockdown in the state. The Lagos Railway District Manager, Mr Jerry Oche, who made this disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Read More…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Lagos State Government on Thursday issued fresh guidelines for public transport operations in the state as part of the controlled measures to ease the lockdown over COVID-19 pandemic. The state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, released the guidelines at a news conference in Lagos. According to him, public transport operations within the state Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Lagos State recorded 33 new cases of COVID19 transmissions on Saturday. In its tweet at 11.55pm Saturday, the NCDC reported 87 new cases of COVID19: 33 in Lagos, 18 in Borno, 12 in Osun, nine in Katsina, four in Kano, four in Ekiti, three in Edo, three in Bauchi, one in Imo. So far, 1182 Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nigerian Shippers’ Council on Thursday said that a meeting with Haulage Associations and unions had resulted to a 30 per cent reduction in charges. Mrs Rakiya Zubairu, Deputy Director, Public Relations, NSC, made this known in a statement in Lagos. According to her, the aim of the meeting was to work out a modus operandi Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes The Lagos State government, on Tuesday, announced the discharge of nine more Coronavirus patients, having tested negative twice for the virus.Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a statement, said that the number of discharged patients from the isolation centres in the state was now 107. ”Good people of Lagos, I have more great news from our isolation Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes The Lagos State Water Corporation (LSWC) has felicitated with her Premium Customers, wishing them happy and memorable 2020 Easter celebration amid the Corona virus pandemic.The Managing Director of the corporation, Mr Muminu Badmus, on Sunday in Lagos prayed to Almighty God for continuous guidance, protection for Christians and bless them all with sound health during Read More…
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