Full list: UK shuts 13 more asylum hotels
The UK government has announced the closure of 13 more hotels being used to accommodate asylum seekers, as part of its wider plan to end the use of hotels for asylum accommodation.
3 injured as building collapses in Lagos
By Evelyn Usman & Ifeanyi Okolie Tragedy was averted yesterday when the decking of a storey building caved in, in Oworosoki area of Lagos. However, three persons — a mother and her two children — said to have been trapped under the debris for hours before help came, sustained serious injuries.
Classroom block collapses on pupil in Ughelli South community
Our correspondent reports that the entire building wall will collapse soon unless government intervened quickly, as the dilapidated building, made of mud, is the only building standing in the primary school.
Lagos already tackling HIV/AIDS challenges — Fashola
GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that the state government has made policies and implemented programmes that deal frontally with the HIV/AIDS challenges.
Lagos to prosecute illegal patent medicine stores operators
THE Lagos State Government has sealed off another six patent medicine stores, two pharmacies and arrested four suspects in Epe area of Lagos even as it said the suspects will soon be arraigned according to the state law.
TUC’s President-General loses mum
By Funmi Komolafe Geneva—The President-General of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria ( TUC), Comrade Peter Esele’s mother is dead. News of her death was broken to the TUC president-General in Geneva yesterday that his mother, Mrs. Victoria Ebosele, 58, had passed on. Comrade Esele who is leading the TUC delegation to the 98th International […]
