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Democracy is good. Insecurity is bad. Democratisation of insecurity is totally undesirable. Those are the truths on which I stand today as I ruminate over the gradual transmogrification of the southwestern part of Nigeria from a peaceful centre of commerce and culture to a killing field where untold savagery has become a handmaiden of daily Read More…
Governor Inaugurates Rehabilitated Medical Institute, Flags Off 5.5km Road Project Badagry – one of the five traditional divisions of Lagos State – reaped bountiful dividends of the development programmes of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration. A 110-bed Maternal and Childcare Centre (MCC), School of Anaesthesiology in Badagry General Hospital and 252 units of two bedroom housing Read More…
Late goals by Phil Foden, Gabriel Jesus and Ferran Torres spared Manchester City a shock FA Cup defeat away to fourth-tier Cheltenham as the Premier League giants scraped into round five on Saturday. Alfie May’s 59th-minute goal put Cheltenham agonisingly close to the biggest win in their history on a night of drama at a Read More…
THE United States President, Joe Biden’s appointment of three young Nigerians into his cabinet is replete with lessons, not just for Nigeria, but for the entire African continent. Biden first appointed 39-year-old Adewale Adeyemo, who was the first President of the Obama Foundation, as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Next, Biden appointed 26-year-old Read More…
Snoop and two activists – Alice Johnson and Weldon Angelos – are trying to have the sentence of Death Row Records co-founder Michael ‘Harry-O’ Harris commuted after 30 years behind bars As the Unites States prepares to usher in Joe Biden as the 46th president, the current commander-in-chief has been spending some of his remaining Read More…
There was low turnout of students in private schools in Lagos State on Monday as academic activities resumed for the second term of 2020/21 session. The Lagos State Government had, on Friday, directed public and private schools below the tertiary level to resume for the new term. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited some private Read More…
The Nigerian stock market opened for the week on Monday with a loss of N40 billion, halting five consecutive days positive run. Speficially, the market capitalisation which opened at N21.530 trillion shed N40 billion to close at N21.490 trillion. Also, the All Share Index which opened at 41,176.14 lost 93.76 points or 0.23 per cent Read More…
The Baby Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire on Monday defeated Nigeria’s national under-17 male football team 3-2 to win the WAFU “B” U-17 Tournament in Lome, Togo. The Golden Eaglets were unable to defend the title they won two years ago after going down to the Ivorians for the second time in the regional tournament. Nigeria Read More…
Mesut Ozil said joining Fenerbahce is a “dream come true” after landing in Istanbul late on Sunday night ahead his move to the Turkish giants. Arsenal gave permission for Ozil to travel to Turkey after a breakthrough in talks between player and the club over the weekend over the mutual termination of his contract. The Read More…
Mr Funsho Adebiyi , Nigeria’s Coordinating Director, Highway Construction and Rehabilitation has said that the Lagos-badan Expressway will be completed and totally opened to traffic in December. Adebiyi, who spoke against the backdrop of an inspection tour of the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan Expressway rehabilitation and reconstruction project, said the dual carriageway would be completed, but the Read More…