A 39-year-old man, Chris Ndukwe, has committed suicide in Lagos after killing his 25-year- old girlfriend, Olamide Alli. This was contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the state police command, DSP Bala Elkana, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Lagos. Elkana said that Ndukwe and Alli were found Read More…
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Police Command in Lagos State, have rescued two suspected burglars from being lynched by a mob on Lagos Island. The RRS Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Tunji Disu, said this in the squad twitter handle on Monday. He said that the RRS operatives rescued and handed Read More…
Nigeria now has 20,244 confirmed COVID19 cases. Figures released by NCDC last night show that 6,879 cases have been discharged while the number of deaths has risen to 518. Of the national figure Lagos constitutes over 42 percent with 8,576 confirmed COVID19 cases, of which 7,006 cases are active with 126 deaths. On Sunday evening, Read More…
A total of 45 more coronavirus patients in Lagos State have recovered and discharged after testing negative twice to the virus, according to the state government. The State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday. He said that a total of 1,328 patients were now discharged from the isolation centres. Read More…
VIEW FROM ABROAD By Jean Claude Homawoo Having grown up in Africa and Europe, the reality of life as a Black man in the U.S. did not truly hit me until I was a junior in college. As an honor student, I’d never been in any real trouble, that is until I got into an Read More…
To commemorate the World Refugee Day, we spoke to the CEO, Sesor Empowerment Foundation, Ier Jonathan-Ichaver, on the Nigerian IDP situation. Below is a video of the interview.
To commemorate the UN World Refugee Day, an NGO, Sesor Empowerment Foundation, has called for collective and urgent action by all Nigerians to rehabilitate displaced persons and refugees in Nigeria and prevent more people getting displaced. Their call is in line with the 2020 theme: Every Action Counts. According to a statement released by the Read More…
The Lagos State Government has announced the recovery and discharge of 98 more novel coronavirus patients. The patients have tested negative twice for the virus. The state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who made the disclosure in a statement on Friday, said that a total of 1,283 patients had been successfully managed and discharged in the state. Read More…
The Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) have urged the Federal Government to intervene in the heavy import duties they used to pay for imported meters. They said that such an intervention would help to mitigate delays they usually encountered when clearing meters at the ports in a statement signed by Mr Sunday Oduntan on Friday in Read More…
Nigeria has recorded 745 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 18,480. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Thursday through its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 745 new confirmed cases were from 21 states, with six deaths as at June 18. The health agency Read More…