Residents of Ketu Local Government have lashed out at the Lagos state government over its inability to provide constant potable water for the council since 1999, when the country returned to democratic system of government.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 was an interesting day. It was the day Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, revealed his side as a former blue-collar worker, a former labour leader, a man of the people.

To facilitate the education of students in Ukwani Local Government Area, the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, last week, donated an Information Communication Technology, ICT, Centre worth N40 million to the Obiaruku Grammar School, Obiaruku.

Residents of Ago in Isolo Local Council Development area have expressed their displeasure with Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola over the condition he has placed for repairing the deplorable 3.5km failed road that has become a nightmare to the people.

The Cold War between the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group and the Nigeria Police may linger for as long as the over 200 school girls who were kidnapped from Chibok in Borno State last April 14 remain missing.

MANY days for the thief, one day for the owner. This popular saying aptly defines the violent episode of how Dennis Mejiren, 23, recovered his brand new purple Q-Link motorbike (Okada) moments after two armed men had dispossessed him of it at Otu-Jermi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area.

The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has thrown his weight behind the Nigerian Navy, saying it has contributed immensely to the security of the nation, especially as regards safety on the nation’s territorial waters.

They are currently living in forced exile as displaced victims of war and other violent crises. But this has not stopped about 80 children of refugees from different African countries from identifying with the global outrage over the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. In fact, they had used the last Children Day celebration to call for the immediate release of the kidnapped school girls who have been in captivity since April 14.

INDEED, it has been three years of unending crises at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, since October 2011, when Governor Babatunde Fashola, sent a White Paper to the University’s Governing Council, announcing the implementation of a new fees regime, which saw tuition fees increased steeply from N25, 000 to as much as N348, 750

MUBI was for years the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State. The fact that it shares borders with the Republic of Cameroun ensures that it enjoys business boom all the year round. Apart from its strategic commercial importance, the ancient city of Mubi equally boasts of no fewer than four higher institutions, thus making it also a centre of learning.

Against the backdrop of the Boko Haram-sponsored insurgency ravaging the North Eastern part of Nigeria, the Dynamic Youth Organisation of Nigeria, DYON, plans to stage a peace summit to sensitise youths against being used by terrorists and to support the Jonathan administration’s quest to end the spate of insurgency in the country.

Residents of Ojo Local Government Area have expressed concern over the durability of the Ariyo (Mile 10)-Ira-Muwo bridge, an alternative road for the 10 lane Lagos-Badagry Expressway, following a failed portion of the yet to be commissioned bridge

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, has ordered security to be beefed up around Mile 2 in Amuwo-Odofin LGA and Apapa-Oshodi Expressway following public outcry over the rising cases of armed robbery, violent attacks on motorists, and other road users by hoodlums.

By OKEY NDIRIBE, Abuja These are no easy times for members of the #BringBackOurGirls advocacy group which has been piling pressure on the Federal Government to act swiftly and rescue over 200 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State who were kidnapped last April 14. Last Tuesday, the group had to drag the […]

Against the backdrop of the Boko Haram-sponsored insurgency ravaging the North Eastern part of Nigeria, the Dynamic Youth Organisation of Nigeria, DYON, plans to stage a peace summit to sensitise youths against being used by terrorists and to support the Jonathan administration’s quest to end the spate of insurgency in the country.