The joy and thrills of the people of South Africa was brought to Lagos on the 6th of September as the South African Consulate in Nigeria celebrated South Africa’s National Women’s Day 2018 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. The consulate hosted dignitaries, media partners, stakeholders and Consuls- General including Ghana, Equatorial Guinea and several other countries to a night of centenary celebrations.

Lagos is being short-changed in my opinion because Lagos only collects revenue for 20 LGAs…about 65 per cent of the VAT collected in the federation comes from Lagos. Why isn’t Lagos getting a special percentage of that VAT?

Last weekend, Queen’s College, QC, Old Girls Association, QCOGA and set of ‘68 hosted the immediate past Principal of the school, Chief Mrs Betty Are to a dinner and award ceremony in appreciation of her role in stemming the tide during the diarrhoea outbreak last year,  which claimed the lives of three students and saw several other students hospitalised.

A town hall meeting for women delegates from all the 43 local government areas of Kano state took place Sunday to mobilize women input into the 2019 budget.

The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and the Enugu State Governor’s wife, Mrs. Monica Ugwuanyi, Thursday, rewarded indigent pupils in the state, who had resumed from the long vacation, with school materials, as a means of encouraging early resumption by students.