While undergoing her residency at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Dr. Nneka Nwobbi, Founder/President, Children Living With Cancer Foundation, CLWCF, came face to face with children with cancer whose parents were unable to offset their hospital bills. As a result, they were detained in the hospital.

Despite the order given by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, charging all commissioners of police across the country to ensure strict compliance with the ban on police roadblocks, Vanguard, gathered Sunday, that some policemen in the Lagos State Police Command were still flouting this order, as in recent times, illegal checkpoints have been resurfacing across major roads in the metropolis.

Nothing better encapsulates the pathetic nature of the current re-branding of Muhammadu Buhari than his sudden appearance in a black western suit; something that has not happened before.

India and Nigeria has recorded bilateral trade of $17 billion from April 2013 to March 2014.Disclosing this in Abuja, India’s Acting High Commissioner in Nigeria Kaisar Alam said that India imported $14 billion worth of goods from Nigeria during the year while Nigeria imported $3 billion worth of goods from India in the same period.Alam explained that India was currently the largest importer of Nigeria’s crude oil, importing $12 billion worth of the product in the year under review.

The Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr Ola Oresanya has called for collaboration between stakeholders, private investors and the academia to sustain the tempo of waste management in the country.

NOTHING better encapsulates the pathetic nature of the current re-branding of Muhammadu Buhari than his sudden appearance in a black western suit; something that has not happened before.  This window-dressing just won’t cut it.  Given his sectarian antecedents, Buhari will be hard-pressed to convince anyone that he is western in any way, shape or form.  Indeed, in this era of rampant Islamic fundamentalism and insurgency, a Buhari presidency would close the doors of many Western interests to Nigeria in our hour of need.    
 

Professor Timothy Olugbenga Nubi teaches Estate Management at the University of Lagos, Akoka. A former Head, of Estate Management Department in the university, Prof Nubi is also the founder Ideal Habitat, an NGO. Prof Nubi was the lead speaker at a the second National Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Seminar, NMCPD organised by the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV. In Lagos last month. He spoke to JUDE NJOKU on why PPP is the best approach to projects delivery in present day Nigeria.

The 13.5 kilometre Mile 12 to Ikorodu Bus Rapid Transit, BRT extension project which has reached 90 percent completion, will be delivered before the end of the first quarter of 2015. When completed, the project will have the capacity to move more than 300,000 passengers daily. This was disclosed to newsmen by the Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority, LAMATA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola.

THE Silverbird Group has named Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, as Man of the Year 2014, in appreciation of his achievements.

By Sam Eyoboka Mgbidi—GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has assured the people of the state that by the special grace of God, 2015 will be better than 2014. The governor spoke at the just-concluded The Lords Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement’s 2015 Mgbidi miracle crusade. The governor arrived the Chosen International School, Mgbidi venue of […]

For widows in Edo State, penultimate Saturday was a day to remember and cherish. Reason? It was a day they were hosted to a highly rewarding New Year celebration under the auspices of a Widow Empowerment Programme.

Oil prices slumped to new five and half year lows on Monday on worries about a surplus of global supplies and lackluster demand.

The International Monetary Fund is under mounting pressure to cancel the debts of the three poor West African countries hit hardest by Ebola, as their economies stall under the fallout from the disease.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to frontally confront the issues facing the nation instead of changing his dressing as a way of deceiving Nigerians.