SERAP drags FG, Fashola to court over pre-paid meters
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Federal Government and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, SAN over “their collective failure, refusal and/or negligence to enforce their own directives to electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) to provide free prepaid meters to all Nigerians and end the use of patently illegal, arbitrary, unfair and discriminatory estimated billing across the country.
Why we want to produce 400 million syringes in Nigeria —Kumral, Turkish investor
AS a way of tackling unemployment, a manufacturing company, Jubilee Syringe is set to create jobs for some unemployed Nigerians.
You can’t serve deities and prosper
It is pertinent for people to always do and take to corrections. Thinking in retrospect makes people to do corrections. There-fore, people should look and think about their past deeds so that they would know what they did wrong that requires correction.
The history of Lagos, Ilaje and the aboriginal tribes
WRITING on the Ilaje situation in Lagos, Ajose Kudehinbu, former Head of Service of Ondo State and prince of the Ilaje Aheri kingdom who spent his early childhood in Lagos, recalled that one of the several places Ilaje had occupied and which he visited with his father, growing up then, in the city was ‘Agege-Odo’, now Akoka and present site of the University of Lagos from where the original Ilaje occupants were evacuated to establish the University.
Catholic archbishop renews calls for true federalism
THE Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins has renewed his call on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently consider restructuring Nigeria on the path of true federalism.
‘The only way out of unending starvation is for us to return home’
Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region’s starving millions.
Victoria, David Beckham to celebrate 18th wedding anniversary
David and Victoria Beckham seem to have defied the curse of short-lived celebrity marriages and are set to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary next month.
Arrested kidnapper Evans buys $170K wristwatch
Glimpses about the lavish lifestyle of the billionaire kidnapper Evans are emerging, with his confession that he splashed his loot in buying a wristwatch for $170,000.
Igbo quit notice: Arewa groups’ leaders dare police to arrest youths
Four days after the police said it had launched a manhunt for the leaders of the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups that warned the Igbo to leave the North within three months, no member of the group has been arrested.
Reminder of the 1966 pogrom in the north: To thy tents o’ Igbo?
LAST week’s ultimatum given to Igbo people resident in the northern part of the country, by a coalition of Arewa groups to leave the region within three months, was received with shock in many segments of the country.
