Wired for Danger: The journalistic exposé that challenged Africa’s electrical counterfeit crisis
Investigative reports from Nigeria and Senegal exposed the threat of counterfeit electrical products, prompting public outcry, regulatory action, and continental recognition through a Schneider Electric media award on electrical counterfeiting in Africa. By Femi Ajasa, Online Editor Fires linked to electrical faults intensified in Nigeria and Senegal. From Alaba International Market in Lagos to the […]
FG to establish 1,000MW coal power plant in Enugu
The Federal Government has announced plans to establish a 1000 mega watts coal power plant in Enugu state.
Education is scary
“Education is scary. There are so many people who discouraged us, given that our girls were kidnapped and escaped, and told us we should not put them in school again. Now, we who have agreed, we are giving our children to you. You are the ones to protect them and we are grateful for your help.”
FirstBank ATM ownership
The decision of FirstBank to increase the volume of its Automated Teller Machine,ATM, galleries across the country has redefined the significance of ATM to customers.
Looming epidemic: 300 corps members storm street to evacuate heaps of refuse
Residents of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, are presently alarmed at the growing heaps of refuse at strategic locations in the metropolis. In fact, there has been fear that an epidemic could break out on account of this, a reason for which last saturday, corps members numbering over 300 stormed Goddy Ogbaga Avenue, Abakaliki to evacuate refuse from different dump sites there.
VW Group delivers 6.52m vehicles in eight months
+5.6 percent)* million vehicles to customers. Developments during the month of August were also positive, with the company delivering 740,500 (August 2013: 720,900; +2.7 percent)* units worldwide. “Deliveries by the Volkswagen Group developed well in the first eight months. However, the economic environment in some world markets remains tense”, Group Board Member for Sales Christian Klingler said in Wolfsburg on Friday, and added: “The Volkswagen Group and its brands are in an excellent position to master these challenges.”
FRSC solicits NSC support in sports devt
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has solicited the assistance of the National Sports Commission (NSC) in developing its sport activities.
Who believes the lie that there are more people in the North than in the South?
Everything turns upside down in Nigeria. Logic becomes illogical. Wisdom becomes foolishness. Two plus two becomes seven. Hospitals become mortuaries. Stealing is not corruption. Education is a sin. In Nigeria, so many things fly in the face of simple commonsense.
We are dying of hunger — NUP, Electricity sector
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Electricity Sector, Rivers/Bayelsa Chapter has protested against the non-payment of their arrears and pension for over nine months.
Building Agency raises alarm over Lagos police barracks
THE Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, has raised an alarm over what it described as the poor state of buildings in Police barracks in the state
Lagos 2015: PDP’s desperate moves
For the fourth time, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is squaring up to upturn its second place position in the politics of Nigeria’s socio-political hub, Lagos.
