Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has lauded the great contributions of Nigerian teachers towards the country’s development and charged governments at all levels to take them serious by doing more to appreciate them. “I wish to use the…
Atiku Abubakar has described the Niger Delta as a huge blemish on the collective conscience of the Nigerian nation. According to the PDP presidential front runner “the area has accounted for over 85% of Nigeria’s annual revenues for the past…
It’s another Friday and you know there is no party like a Lagos party. thisislagos tells you where the hottest parties are, where the art exhibitions are popping and where the cognoscenti gather. Make sure you turn up! Major Lazer…
What is a city without crime? Every Friday, thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Don’t get caught!!! Husband conspires with friends, robs wife (Punch) A man, Adewale Lukmon,…
The anointed candidate, Adekunle Akinlade, of the Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has been defeated in the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary. The Muhammad Ndabawa-led electoral committee sent to Ogun State by the National Working Committee (NWC) of…
Following the high mortality rate of tobacco users in the country, the federal government said yesterday it had concluded plans to ban tobacco use in Nigeria. The decision, it said, was part of the implementation of the Tobacco Control Act…
A prominent issue currently engaging the intellect of economic analysts is the proposed currency swap between the Nigerian Naira and Chinese Yen. In my University social media forum it has provoked intense debate. Currency swap is intended to mitigate the…
High level intrigues for political ascendancy in Lagos State ended abruptly yesterday after somersaults by the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship election panel. The Lagos APC primary panel’s recognition of the result of the direct primary which threw up Mr.…
Some sixty-eight years before U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden, America conducted an assassination of another kind. But what’s really interesting is that compared with the controversy over today’s targeted assassinations, there was remarkably little fuss made over the…
Sending your thoughts directly into someone else’s brain may seem like the stuff of science fiction. But this capability could be closer to reality than we think. A team from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University has developed…
