BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Cost experts seek convergence of ideas from academics, practitioners
To ensure a sustainable built environment and enhance national development, the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), has canvassed a ‘marriage’ between research works by quantity surveyors (QS) in academia and those of their counterparts in practice.
Obasanjo wants probe of Nigerians’ death in Libya
Former President,Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed worry over how desperate youths risk their lives to travel to Europe and the maltreatment they receive from their hosts on the African continent.
30 women jailed for prostitution
Lagos—A magistrate’s court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, sentenced 30 women to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution.
AAG: Super Falcons wallop Congo 5-1
The Super Falcons leaped to the top of Group A of the women’s football tournament of the 11th All-Africa Games after a 5-1 whiplash of host Congo-Brazzaville on Sunday.
Akwa Ibom guber: We declared results without collation, Witness tells tribunal
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, Monday, hurriedly closed his defence before the tribunal. In the four days of his defence at the tribunal, Emmanuel called 19 witnesses. The governor had earlier indicated interest to call more witnesses. The All Progressives candidate for the governorship election the the state, Umana Umana, had approached the tribunal challenging conduct of the election and declaration of Udom Emmanuel as winner of the poll.
FG approves importation of 402.3m litres petrol for September
The Federal Government has issued additional import allocations for at least 300,000 tonnes of premium motor spirit, PMS, popularly called petrol for the remainder of the third quarter, oil traders said on Monday.
Dell unveils simplified path to cloud, virtualization, VDI
Global ICT giant Dell and VMware, the Cloud and Virtualization software and services provider have announced enhancements to its end-to-end solutions for VMware from the datacenter to systems and device management to thin clients.
African Start-Up’ on CNN: How Okonkow created online female shoes shop
Just recently, CNN International’s ‘African Start-Up’ features Ikenna Okonkow, a Nigerian entrepreneur who started Heels.com.ng, an online business selling women’s shoes, with his high-school friend, Udoka Uzoka
NSE market indicators appreciate by 1.83 %
Equities transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday reopened for the week on a positive note as market indicators improved marginally by 1.83 per cent.
Nigerian, Kekere-Ekun, gets life sentence in UK for murder
A Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Eku, was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the UKfor murdering 18-yearold Marcus Hall in 2001, following a brawl outside Luton’s Atmosphere Nightclub.
Help! We are both itchy in our genital areas after sex
A few weeks after my boyfriend and I had sex, we discovered we were both itchy in our genital areas. We postponed sex thinking it was just a yeast infection, his symptoms being redness and a bit of bumps, mine being itchy redness.
