Qatar hopes to host the world’s most glamorous sporting event fromNov. 21 to Dec. 18, 2022. Although Qatar is a small country, given its size; it has vast resources that are backed by high income from oil and gas. Indeed, Qatar has the world’s third-largest natural gas and oil reserves. A
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Lekki Gardens Managing Director, Nyong Richard and the contractor handling the collapsed five-storey building, Odofin Taiwo were on Friday arraigned before an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s Court, Yaba, Lagos to answer to charges on act of negligence leading to multiple deaths in a building yet under construction. The duo were chauffeured driven into the court premises in […]
The Awujale of Ijebuland, HRM Oba (Dr) Skiru Kayode Adetona, CFR recently stunned his people when he proclaimed a Professorial Chair at the Olabisi Onabanjo University with an endowment of N250 million. The Awujale made the announcement at an international press conference held at his palace in Ijebu Ode, on March 4, 2016. Declaring his […]
A ring of human trafficking network comprising a grandmother based in Nigeria and her daughter and son-in-law based in Libya have been broken up by a human rights group, The Alliance of Rights Defenders (ARD) in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). The Daily Times crime […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently expressed concern that ‘Nigeria may be on its way to another crisis of debt overhang if the current fiscal challenge is not creatively addressed.’ Obasanjo expressed the view at a conference of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP), which has ‘Getting Government to Work for Development and […]
The City of Excellence has recorded her first major building collapse this first quarter of 2016 at the high brow Lekki area of Lagos. The collapsed of the five story building still under construction happened in the early hours of Tuesday (yesterday) at Chisco Bus Stop in Lekki Phase One area of Lagos State. As […]
It all started like a scene from a bad movie script. Gloria Izuakor woke up on the morning of 23rd of January without an inkling of what the day had for her. Though quite unwell, she managed to drag herself out of bed to do her house chores. But before the end of the day, […]
The Lagos State Commissioner of police, CP Fatai Owoseni last Monday paraded over 76 suspected criminals for committing various offences in Lagos State and its environs. This is sequel to the successful recue on Sunday of the three school girls abducted from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu last Monday night, as well as what […]
The fate of over 6,000 traders – mostly electrical/electronic dealers from the Southeastern part of the country –Â is still hanging in the balance since their shops were demolished and goods destroyed by the Lagos State Government about seven weeks ago. The worst are the over 5,400 traders who cannot be accommodated at the new […]
The Ese Oruru episode The purported abduction to Kano in August last year of 14-year-old Ese Oruru, a teenage Bayelsan girl by one Inusa, a tricycle operator was nothing short of a living drama straight from the movies. While the nation screamed ‘abduction’, ‘forceful conversion/marriage’ and ‘rape’, Ese, now with her parents said she […]
These are trouble times indeed for residents of Arepo community, close to Berger on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. While ripples of the abduction of three girls by armed hoodlums at the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary secondary school at Agunfoye-Lugbusi community in Adamo, Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State on Monday night, reports […]
The crash should be seen as a wake up call for the the regulatory agency to put its house in order and ensure that every regulation is complied with. Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo reports. From all indications, it seems all is not well in the country’s civil aviation sub-sector. It is the statutory definitely not regulation as […]
Whenever the Catholics move for an occasion, it is like a massive troop that could run into hundreds of thousands. So it was two days ago (Wednesday February 10) when practicing faithfuls of the Catholic Church worldwide trooped into their respective cathedrals for the traditional Ash Wednesday ceremony, a ritual of sobriety of sort. Our […]
For officers at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), the sudden disappearance of Mr. Placid Ezeruike, whose wife alleged has been used for sacrifice by one Chief Lawrence Oyanifo is yet another knot they would have to crack. Information has it that Placid who resides at No. 22 Idowu Street in Ajegunle left home on […]
One cannot refute the manifold roles the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) play in developing programs, advocacy and training. Whether at the schools, district, state or at the national levels, the PTA is actively present working on policies that support the educational needs of children, promoting family engagement and strong partnerships between schools and the
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), its counterpart, Trade Union Congress (TUC), Civil Society allies and electricity consumers in the country trooped out on Monday in a nationwide protest against the 45 per cent increase in electricity tariff. LAGOS Early commuters in Ikeja area of Lagos were caught in an unusual traffic gridlock from all points […]
Life they say is beautiful. While those who are physically fit enjoy the beauty and pleasure life could offer. They move around freely, carrying out different day-to-day activities demanding little or no support at all from other persons to achieve their goals in life. However, one wonders if the same phrase could be used for […]
The National Human Rights Commission was established in 1995 in furtherance to Nigeria’s constitutional treaty and diplomatic obligations for the promotion, protection and enforcement of human rights in Nigeria. Magdalene Ukuedojor of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission was established by the Federal Government as a direct response to the
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, recently visited some areas affected in Borno by the activities of Boko Haram insurgents to obtain information that could help in the fight against terrorism. The minister, accompanied by some journalists, paid an inspection visit to the Theatre Command of the Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri, […]
Opticians observe that eyes are very important organs in the body which cares people must pay attention to. They observe that lack of care for the eyes has caused many people to lose their sight unconsciously to many eye diseases. According to them, apart from routine medical check-up on the eyes, people should encourage balanced […]
