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Fashola blames MRS fire disaster on FG

Fashola blames MRS fire disaster on FG

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, blamed the Federal Government for the fire disaster at MRS tank farm, Tin Can Island, Lagos on Wednesday, saying, “the disaster shows that the country’s oil and port management are still in their amateur stage.”

FG orders return of toxic ship to UK

FG orders return of toxic ship to UK

The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to place heavy sanctions on the e-waste ship that was arrested on Wednesday. It also ordered that the toxic wastes laden containers on board the ship, MV Marivia Monrovia, be shipped back to the port of origin in the U.K.

This came after security operatives at the Tin-Can Island Port concluded examination on the two offensive containers bearing the e-wastes.

Africa’s departing masquerades

Africa’s departing masquerades

HE supported the Arab Spring that toppled the governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. He hunted down Osama bin Laden in a dare-devil operation that caught the Pakistanis napping in Abbotabad close to a high security military facility and ended a decade long war in Iraq and Afghanistan that severely reduced the capacity of Al Qaeda to inflict harm on the American homeland. The Taliban is on the run and Iran treads a cautious path in its quest for nuclear weapons. He took America out of the biggest recession in history since the Great Depression soon after he assumed office in 2008.