Some residents of Jafojo community in Agege Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State have called on the Lagos State Government to intervene over the challenges posed by the cemetery in the area. The residents said the existence of the cemetery had led to health and security concerns as well as neglect of social Read More…
Life in Nigeria is very cheap and living is very costly. But please don’t ask me for the statistics because they are hard to come by. Registration of birth, especially in the rural areas is not common, but more uncommon is that of death; the general attitude is ‘God gives and God takes’. So why Read More…
Nigerien state television and an aid agency said on Sunday that the Nigerian military may have killed and wounded children in an airstrike in neighbouring Niger Republic. Nigeria’s armed forces said that they were still investigating. The attack is said to have taken place in the village of Nachadé in the region of Maradi, Niger, Read More…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed in principle to a summit over Ukraine, the French leader said on Monday, offering a possible path out of one of the most dangerous European crises in decades. Financial markets edged higher on the glimmer of hope for a diplomatic solution even as satellite Read More…
In picture above: Rescuers and firefighters work among the wreckage from the plane that crashed on June 3, 2012, in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, killing all of the 153 people on board, in the densely populated Toyin Area in Lagos. Credits: Emmanuel Arewa/AFP A total of 2,038 persons died in air accidents in Nigeria Read More…
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has pledged his support for the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adeyemi III made the pledge on Sunday during Tinubu’s visit to his palace in Oyo Town. Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, had embarked on a consultation Read More…
In picture above: The 15 trafficked females who were rescued from Mali with the efforts of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in collaboration with the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) at their arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday, 20 February 2022. Credit: Read More…
The Lagos State Government in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), have begun a one-month intensive field research and survey on coconut value chain analysis. Ms Abisola Olusanya, the State Commissioner for Agriculture, said in Lagos on Sunday that a survey on coconut was last Read More…
The Lagos Government says plans are ongoing to develop a Medical Park to attract medical tourists and make the state a medical tourism hub. Dr Obafemi Hamzat, the state Deputy Governor, made this known on Sunday in Lagos at the unveiling of the Duchess Royal Medical Check-Up in collaboration with Lagos Marriott Hotel at Ikeja. Read More…
About 52 inmates of the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, charged for various offences ranging from murder, theft, manslaughter, rape and cultism but had been incarcerated for a long period, due to their inability to afford proper legal representation, have subscribed to the free legal services of the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender (OPD). The Read More…