I want to alleviate poverty, aspirant vows
Hon John Omotola Soares (JOS) , an Obalande indigene has made a positive head start in in his campaign to become the next chairman of the Ikoyi/Obalende Local government, promising to alleviate poverty in the council when elected.
APC urges FG to probe past NLGN payments, condemns PDP grandstanding
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Federal Government to urgently unravel what happened to the past Company Income Tax/Education tax as well as dividends paid to the Nigerian government by the NLNG, against the background of published reports that the funds were never paid into the Federation Account as they should have been.
Church’s security defuse 2 bombs in Jos
A week after twin bomb blasts erupted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, another explosion occurred Sunday morning in the premised of Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA in Tudun Wada area of Jos North Local Government Council.
Malala turns 18, says world failing Syrian children
Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria’s children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday Sunday on the Syrian border. As she became an adult, the teenager, who was shot by militants in her native Pakistan for campaigning for girls’ rights, opened a school for more than 200 Syrian girls […]
Don’t sacrifice human lives on altar of money, profit, Pope tells politicians
Pope Francis decried the scourge of corruption as the “gangrene of a people” on Saturday in Paraguay, one of the poorest countries in South America and where graft is rampant.
Ramadan festival breathes new life into Saudi’s old Jeddah
Residents of the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah are slowly returning to its historic centre, where a Ramadan cultural festival and UN heritage status are giving new life to the old quarter.
