Repentant kidnappers, cultists sell fish to survive in Rivers
ABUA/ODUA—REPENTANT kidnappers and cultists from Abua and Odua communities in Abua/Odua Local Government Area, Rivers State, have resorted to fish selling to eke out a living under a Community Life Intervention Project, CLIP, established by 58 communities in the area to give a new lease of life to their local economy.
Flood takes over Sapele
Sapele— Continuous downpour for a week now in Sapele, Delta State, has caused massive flooding in the city, forcing residents to move out from several parts of the city.
NIWA unveils aquatic weed harvester
The management of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, will, this week, be unveiling its latest aquatic weed harvester in Lagos at its 2nd International Conference and Exhibition.
#LagosLGpolls: APC wins all 57 chairmanship seats; PDP, 4
TWO days after the conduct of the July, 22 Local Government elections into the 20 Local Government areas and 37 Local Council Development areas in Lagos State, the state’s Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, yesterday, officially released the result of the polls, with All Progressives Congress, APC, clinching all the chairmanship slots.
And they killed the Nigerian Airways along with others
The story of the Nigerian airways is a sad story. Yet those who killed the airline are smiling to the banks today while the workers of the airline are roaming the streets in perpetual penury
Kaduna bus drivers protest ‘extortion’
Kaduna bus drivers, protesting alleged high-handedness and extortion by officials of the Kaduna State Traffic and Environmental Law Agency, KASTELEA, yesterday, left hundreds of motorists stranded as the drivers boycotted most of the Kaduna roads.
CVR: INEC registers 70,039 voters in Delta
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said it has registered a total of 71,039 prospective voters in Delta State in the first quarter of the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration, CVR exercise.
African Blind Foundation lifts Bethesda Blind School
The African Blind & Restoration Foundation today presented essential food items to the Bethesda Vocational School of the Blind in Mushin. It was in response to a major need in the school.
Lagos averts 189,800 unsafe abortions, maternal deaths through family planning
The Lagos State Ministry of Health, LSMoH, has said that the uptake of family planning, by 600,000 women in less than six months helped the state in averting 46,000 unsafe abortions, 143,000 unintended pregnancies and 800 maternal deaths.
IITA’s 50th Anniversary: Gowon, Obasanjo, others want food sufficiency in Africa
FORMER Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.); ex-President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and representative of Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, were among dignitaries that graced yesterday’s International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA’s 50th anniversary celebrations in Ibadan.
Sympathisers throng Faleti’s home, as more eulogise pour in
SCORES of sympathisers, yesterday, thronged the home of the late renowned author, poet, broadcaster and actor, Pa Adebayo Faleti, who died on Sunday.
