Workers Day and Rights of Vulnerable Workers in Nigeria
By Roseline Oghenebrume There is a connection between human rights and employment: human rights will only be functional when a person’s source of livelihood is unhindered as this impact on rights to life, movement, peaceful assembly and association, privacy, and human dignity, liberty, property, etc. Even at this, an unhealthy working environment and poor terms […]
Lockdown relaxation: BRT scraps short-distance tickets, to commute 20 passengers per bus
Primero Transport Services Ltd., operator of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos, says it will only be carrying 20 commuters with face masks per bus as from Monday to contain further spread of COVID-19.
Sports suffers as Ayade’s men fight for office space
On Monday last week, two of Senator Ben Ayade’s aides on sports engaged each other in fisticuffs following a misunderstanding over office space for, arguably, the most neglected sector in the state in recent times.
Robot helps Tunisia medics avoid infection from coronavirus patients
Medics have deployed a robot in a Tunisia’s hospital caring for coronavirus victims to limit contact between staff and infected patients, in a first for the North African country. The tall, single-limbed machine is mounted on wheels and is capable of taking pulses and checking temperatures and blood oxygen levels. It enables nurses, doctors and patients’ […]
Covid-19: Onuesoke calls for sensitization of rural communities to contain spread
By Ephraim Oseji People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has called on government, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations to embark on immediate large scale sensitization of the rural community in order to curtail the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic. Onuesoke who made the appeal while addressing newsmen in Warri, Delta […]
Secret relationship is a fraud – Mandy Ujunwa
By Ayo Onikoyi Busty Nollywood actress, Mandy Ujunwa Obi is as desirable as any woman could be in terms of frontal endowment. But if you are looking for secret relationship you may be on a wrong page with the ebony bombshell of lusciousness from Nnewi, Anambra State. Bale ‘definitely interested’ in playing in Major League […]
Life has to go on, but differently!
Dr Ugoji Egbujo When SERS and MERS came, they didn’t get us. So when I heard of coronavirus in Wuhan in January, I simply called it OPP – other peoples property. Yes, property! But Coronavirus is here and if our recent daily jumps and the news from Kano are anything to go by, then the […]
EMMANUEL AMUNEKE: Winning ’96 Olympics opened doors for Nigerian players
Emmanuel Amuneke is perhaps, one of the luckiest Nigerian footballers of his time. Apart from his meteoric rise through the ranks, his knack for scoring crucial goals for Nigeria made him special, as a player for the big occasion.
Marriage Na scam?
By Francis Ehwerido Many young people are increasingly getting disillusioned with the institution of matrimony. Some have seen situations in other marriages, and even in their young marriages, that they did not bargain for and they tell you that marriage is a scam or fraud. Today, we want to interrogate marriage and find out if […]
REVEALED: What Abba Kyari did for Nigerian sports
•Arsenal lost a fan in him By Jacob Ajom The novel coronavirus, also called Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on humanity. In the US for instance, over 60,000 deaths have been recorded since the first case was reported in that country. In Italy, Spain, England, France and many other countries across the world, thousands of lives […]
A-Ibom missed SFTAS N43.4bn over delayed budget passage — Gov Emmanuel
Inaugurates post-COVID-19 Economic Reconstruction C’ttee By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has explained that the state missed out in the N43.4billion World Bank Assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme for result-fund recently shared to 24 states by the federal government due to delayed passage of the 2019 […]
