Twenty-two thousand five hundred children died from air pollution in the state in 2021 according to the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA). LASEPA said that the figure constituted 75 per cent of 30,000 people who died in 2021 in the state due to the bad environment. The General Manager, LASEPA, Dr Dolapo Fasawe, disclosed Read More…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reprimanded an airstrike that “hit a kindergarten” in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, with the EU calling for respect for international law protecting civilians. Rebel authorities in the Ethiopian province of Tigray claimed that a kindergarten had been bombed Friday by Ethiopia’s air force, while the government in Read More…
Despite an early morning rain on Saturday, enthusiasm remained high for numerous young Nigerians who partook in a scheduled solidarity march for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi in Port Harcourt Rivers State. The march was a show of support for Obi, a former presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party Read More…
Fire razed Filmhouse Cinema at the Apapa Shopping Mall in Apapa Lagos State on Friday. Activities were going on as usual in the mall when customers and workers started perceiving the smell of burning substances, emergency workers alongside curious customers in the mall traced the smell of the burning substances to the cinema that had been Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has apologised for the hardship road users face on the Berger-OPIC axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while encouraging them to endure. Forosola Oloyede, the acting federal controller of works in Lagos, said: “The government feels the pains of the people, especially residents of Lagos and Ogun states, who are at the Read More…
John Odafe Asiemo, popularly known as Daddy Showkey, a veteran singer, has spoken in support of the two female supernumerary police officers who were suspended for uploading a video on TikTok. In the viral video captioned “sisters that slay together, work together”, both officers are featured in an assortment of pictures where they are seen Read More…
Lagos State is planning to build an Infectious Disease Research Institute, to prepare for the next pandemic and curtail the spread of Tuberculosis (TB), Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, speaking at a dinner organized by Stop TB Partnership Nigeria, as part of the High-Level Mission on Domestic Resource Mobilisation to end TB in the country, revealed that Read More…
A former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mike Okiro, has thrown his full weight behind the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential candidate, Senator Bola Tinubu. He proffers that since Senator Tinubu fixed Lagos as a governor, he would be able to fix Nigeria. Okiro made this known on Friday in Abuja at Read More…
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is devoted to the party and is after its victory in the presidential poll come the election in February 2023. In a statement signed by Paul Ibe his spokesperson, Atiku cautioned against talks that’ll wrongly portray Read More…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, released the sum of $265 million to airlines operating in the country, to settle outstanding ticket sales in a bid to avoid brewing catastrophe in the country’s aviation sector. A breakdown of the figure indicates that the sum of $230 million was released as a special FX intervention Read More…
