Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, has called on agencies that are saddled with the responsibility of regulating the aviation industry and indeed other critical sectors of the economy to adopt the…
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said that it would, through the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) take care of the waste challenges the state is facing before the rains begin. The first of the heavy rains are here and these…
Ike’s life was transformed at 31. Suddenly, courtesy of a job he just landed, Ike found himself rich beyond his wildest dreams. He lived in a fully furnished six-room duplex, alone with his wife and two-year-old son courtesy of his…
Who says the Lagos state government is not in tune with the aspirations of its denizens? Just two days after a thisislagos.ng editorial (read here ) warned that the rains may bring with them an epidemic should the state government fail…
On 10 June 2007, Carmen Tarleton, then 38, was at home with her young daughters in Thetford, Vermont in the US, when her estranged husband broke into the house. Herbert Rogers was looking for a man he supposed she was…
Dr. Chris Asoluka, from Owerri, Imo State is not lost in Lagos as he travels home often. The former vice president Ohanaeze Ndigbo and onetime member of the House of Representatives has advice for young people who want to start…
Members of the Nigeria entertainment industry of Delta State origin have lined up behind the former governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and his ambition to represent Delta South in the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly. The entertainers…
In the 40th year of existence of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), its leadership and that of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have chosen an appropriate theme to mark Worker’s Day. Since 1889, the global day has been set aside…
Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption for that function however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the…
