Residents protest state of Epe Waterworks, PPP
Community advocates and campaigners in Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State stormed the Epe campaign office of Mr. Olusegun Olulade, representing Epe Constituency II in Lagos State House of Assembly, with a petition, asking him to side with them in their demands to keep Lagos water public and for government to rehabilitate Epe Mini Waterworks.
Battle of wits on the Plateau
THE immediate past Speaker, Mr. Peter Azi was accused of being docile. The Majority Leader, Mr. Henry Yunkwap, many members muttered, was high-handed. It was a stifling brew that the members tolerated for three years until two weeks ago when strange energy empowered the members to remove the duo.
Stakeholders call for rational use of essential medicine in Nigeria
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria- Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale; Centre for Communication and Reproductive Health Services among other stakeholders have called on the 36 States of the federation including Federal Capital Territory, to domesticate the use of National Standard Treatment Guidelines, NSTG and Nigeria Essential Medicines List, NEML guideline to foster rational use of medicines at all levels of healthcare.
We receive strange requests to pardon corrupt people — PACAC
THE Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Thursday expressed concerned over the undignified behaviour of some prominent Nigerians, who descend so low to the extent of begging on behalf of corrupt people in the society to be pardoned.
Catholic priest, RCCG pastor, lecturer kidnapped in Kogi
LOKOJA—A Reverend Father, Leo Michael, of Saint Michael Catholic Church, Obajana, has been abducted by kidnappers.
America’s insistence that Africans must wear used clothes
RWANDA is a small landlocked African country with a 24,670 square kilometer, a population of 11.9 million and a GDP of $8.9 Billion. It is with this country, the United States, US, the world’s largest economy with a $20.412 Trillion GDP, a 9,147,420 square kilometre and a population of 326,920,253, has picked a trade war.
Boarding a Nigerian flight of fancy
The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, thinks he has found the medicine for public opinion: listen with blocked ears.
IBADAN: How thugs sent residents out of 30-year-old estate
IRE-AKARI Estate in New Felele, Ibadan, is located on a large expanse land in Oyo State capital.
2019 : INEC registered foreigners, under-aged voters – Southern, Middle Belt elders
Elder statesmen from the South and the Middle Belt have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of registering foreigners and under-aged voters in Northern Nigeria.
Court gives Adeleke six days to present his certificate
A JUDGE in the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, Justice David Oladimeji, yesterday, ordered the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, Governorship Candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to produce his certificate before the court on Wednesday, August 1, 2018.
Africa loses 38% of pedestrians in road accidents annually – FRSC
The Corps Marshal,Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi has disclosed that 38% of all Africa’s road traffic deaths involve pedestrians. He disclosed this during a presentation on Non-Motorized Transportation(NMT) at the general assembly of West African Road Safety Organization (WARSO) in Dakar, Senegal. He also disclosed that half of the world’s road traffic deaths involve motorcyclists, pedestrians (22%), cyclists (5%) while 31% of deaths involve car accidents. The remaining 19% of deaths involve unspecified road users.
