Arise Women takes preventive healthcare to schoolgirls
A huge mobile clinic, bus-load of drugs, an ambulance, doctors of different specialities, more than 100 volunteers and members announced the presence of Women Arise at Queens’ College, QC, Yaba, last Friday in Lagos for a health outreach programme. At the end of the event, over 200 people ad been examined, treated and given drugs free-of-charge. The beneficiaries were mostly QC students as well as staff and residents in the neighbourhood.
HOSTCOM, ex-militants threaten showdown over pipeline surveillance contract
UGHELLI—ISOKO chapter of Host Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCOM and ex-militants from the area have threatened showdown with the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, if they fail to address the alleged marginalisation of Isoko people in the pipeline surveillance contracts recently awarded by the Federal Government.
On the need for decentralisation in the award of the pipeline surveillance contracts and jobs to members of the host communities in the Niger Delta, they explained that pipeline surveillance jobs rather than being a tool for settling of political jobbers, the patronage of HOSTCOM and ex-militants for the job must cut across all tribes in the Niger Delta region.
UGHELLI—Isoko chapter of Host Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCOM and ex-militants from the area have threatened showdown with the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, if they fail to address the alleged marginalisation of Isoko people in the pipeline surveillance contracts recently awarded by the Federal Government.
Fuel tankers’ fire injures 3, burns 10 vehicles in Lagos
LAGOS—Three persons were, yesterday, injured as two tankers loaded with Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, exploded at Ascon Fuel Station in Lekki area of Lagos State.
Star introduces reward platform for football fans
Football fans in Nigeria are anxiously awaiting the debut of a new football platform called Star Football Superfans, which is set to recognize, celebrate and reward the passion of football fans.
Shakes: Nigeria want payback
Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba believes Nigeria feel it will be payback time when they meet in an international friendly at the Mbombela Stadium this Sunday.
Britain reburies King Richard III
Thousands of people gathered inside and outside Leicester Cathedral on Thursday in London for the reburial of Richard III, the last English king to die in a battle.
