Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By Ekene Okoro Snr. Reporter, Lagos Lagos State Government has said 26,049 students have been trained on various skill acquisition programmes to achieve the Millenium Development (MDG) One. State Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, disclosed this at the weekend during a ministerial briefing ahead of Governor...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By Akinwunmi King Snr Reporter, Lagos People living around flood prone area in Mosan-Okunola Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State have been advised to relocate to other areas that are not prone to flood. The advice was given at the weekend by Chairman...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By Sylvester Enoghase Snr Correspondent, Lagos President of the Association of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Sunday Olusoji Salako, has observed that Nigeria is in need of a paradigm shift to tackle unemployment and inequality for delivery of socially sustainable development. He made the...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Yaqoub Popoola, Correspondent, Ado-Ekiti THE Ekiti State Government has hinted that it would soon take delivery of three new hospitals christened “Mother and Child” to compliment the services of the existing hospitals in the state. The hospitals would be built in three principal communities...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Oladele Ogunsola, Correspondent, Ibadan Worried by the spate of youth unemployment and its attendant social vices, the umbrella body for all the socio-cultural groups in Ibadanland, the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) has set up a tripartite committee to look into various ways through...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Dele Moses, Reporter, Ilorin Chairman of the Kwara State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abiodun Abdulkareem, has urged the government and leadership of security agencies in the country to ensure that journalists are not deprived of protection and respect, due to them while...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Ekiti State Government on Thursday at different occasions reiterated its commitment to fighting unemployment and developing the state to an investment hub. Speaking during courtesies calls to her office by representatives of Anli Plywood Industry Limited of Japan (APIL) and UN Habitat, the State Deputy...
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
By Gbenga Abegunrin, Reporter, Ibadan The newly elected National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Tunde Anifowose-Kilani, has disclosed that those who caused confusion in the political party in Oyo State had been expelled since November 2011, just as he denied the allegation that he and...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By Ishaya Ibrahim Snr correspondent, Lagos International Association of Christian Clergymen for Peace of United Nations (IACEPUN) has urged Nigerian leaders to emulate the exemplary leadership qualities of retired Pope Benedict XVI and former South Africa President Nelson Mandela for being shining lights to the...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By Temidayo Akinsuyi and Funmi Falobi, Lagos Business and commercial activities in Lagos State were on Tuesday paralysed following a heavy downpour in some parts of the state. The rain, which lasted for about one hour, resulted in the flooding of major streets and roads,...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By Ekene Okoro Senior Reporter, Lagos Lagos State Government said on Tuesday it would require not less than N262 billion to provide motorable roads and portable water for residents living in rural areas across the state. State Commissioner for Rural Development, Cornelius Ojelabi, disclosed this...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By Sylvester Enoghase Snr. Correspondent, Lagos Women in PENGASSAN (WIP), the female wing of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has called on governments at all levels to create special funds to take care of less privileged children. WIP National...
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
By Andrew Utulu Correspondent, Lagos A 120-member strong team of police personnel drawn from the Ports Authority Police Command (PAPC), the Lagos State Police Task Force Unit and a detachment of the Police Mobile Force (PMF) at the weekend raided the Tin-Can Island Port Complex...
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
By Funmi Falobi Senior Reporter, Lagos Nigeria may be excluded from global business if it fails to develop core infrastructure that will position it to be a global economic hub. Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, made this observation in a...
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
By Ishaya Ibrahim Snr Correspondent, Lagos The formation of All Progressives Congress (APC) would make it easy for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win Lagos in the 2015 general elections, Chairman of the South-South Forum of the PDP in Lagos State, Sunday Ekanem, has...
