Fake nurse arrested after collecting three-month salaries in Lagos (Punch) A woman, Olufunke Adegbenro, who was employed in July 2021 as a nurse in the Isolo General Hospital by the Lagos State Health Service Commission, has been arrested for allegedly…
Lagos community seeks relocation of tank farms for safety reasons (Guardian) Satellite Town residents in Lagos, yesterday stoutly rejected the siting of tank farms in the densely residential area created in 1976. The residents under the auspices of Satellite Town…
Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the only Nigerian on 2021 The Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the world. Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is on the list alongside Duke and Duchess of Sussex Prince Harry…
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the 76th Session of the high-level General Debate of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 24, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A provisional list of…
No fewer than 60 landlords and some tenants on Prime View City Estate, Arigbede, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, and its immediate environs have been sacked by flood. It was gathered that the flood, which had…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said ongoing efforts to reduce poverty in the country continue to grow, with 1.6 million poor and vulnerable households, comprising more than eight million individuals currently benefiting from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme, while N300 billion…
Beyond the rotation of presidency between the north and south arrangement, which seems to be taking up a huge chunk of media space as 2023 general elections loom large, there are other critical factors which are nuanced but germaine to…
President Muhammadu Buhari has facilitated with consummate author, journalist, poet, essayist, photographer, and Pan-Africanist, Lindsay Barrett, as he turns 80 September 15, 2021. A statement by Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, said Jamaica-born Barrett took…
EFCC investigating SCOAN petition, says spokesperson (Punch) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the agency was investigating a petition from the Synagogue Church of all Nations against some members of the church. The church had claimed that it…
The bag named Ghana-must-go is at the very root of all the evils afflicting our dear country Nigeria. All the funds voted for the cure of diseases such as malaria, polio, AIDS, even COVID end up being stashed away in…
