By Tunde Rahman In 1985, the  American magazine  Newsweek reported that the number of high-rise buildings in Shanghai, China’s biggest commercial  city,  could be counted on the finger tips.   By 2005, 20 years later, when I had the first opportunity to visit Beijing and Shanghai as part of China-Africa Editors’ Delegation  touring  that Asian country, skyscrapers had  […]

By TAYO OGUNBIYI According to reports,  a police inspector and four others were killed in a multiple collision that occurred at the Kara Bridge area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The crash involved a mini truck laden with cartons of biscuits, a heavy-duty long truck, a 40-foot containerised trailer, another truck carrying sardines, and a tow truck. This […]

By Matilda Ikediobi Lagos State Safety Commission has urged safety practitioners, regulators and the private sector to improve safety culture and emergency response across the state, saying Lagos, as a rapidly expanding megacity, faces growing risks from urbanisation and industrialisation. The commission made this call at a one-day Stakeholders’ Forum on Safety and Emergency Response […]

By SUNNY IKHIOYA There is something we must all realise, no matter the punitive measures introduced by President Donald Trump and the United States government.   Things cannot be worse than the situation that we have found ourselves these past ten years. Indeed, as one of my Warri brothers told me: “the colonisation has eaten far deep […]

Designers are now elevating indigenous textiles, reviving ancestral techniques, and treating cultural knowledge as a form of design technology