International advocacy organisation Global Citizen has announced exciting new additions to the line-up for VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World. The broadcast and streaming special, scheduled to take place on Saturday, 8th May 2021, will be used to call on…
Kamala Harris makes history as first black Vice President of the US
Kamala Devi Harris has made history as the first first female, first black and first South Asian Vice President of the United States. Harris served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and as attorney general…
*#EndSARS: How clergyman lost fiancee, tooth to police brutality (Nation)*Resumption date for civil servants now February 1 – Sanwo-Olu (Guardian)
#EndSARS: How clergyman lost fiancee, tooth to police brutality (Nation) There were shocking revelations at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS and Related Abuses on Saturday. A deacon with the Apostolic Church, David…
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named Time ‘Person of the Year’
US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been chosen as Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year,” the publication announced Thursday. The Democratic pair was chosen ahead of three other finalists: frontline health care workers and Anthony…
This America sef! – Ehi Braimah
At a time when coronavirus cases and hopitalisations are spinning out of control in America in a second wave with over 100,000 daily cases, I’m still pinching myself to be sure I’m not having a bad dream over President Donald…
Full text of Joe Biden’s victory speech
My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory. A victory for “We the people.” We have won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket in…
*Police patrol Lagos after days of unrest (Punch)*No cyber attack on our website – LASG (Nation)
Police patrol Lagos after days of unrest (Punch) Police officers on Friday and Saturday patrolled Lagos State in a bid to restore order. Earlier, barricades and police checkpoints were seen on the streets of Lagos after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu imposed…
*Lagos man allegedly commits suicide with insecticide (Punch) *Bridge rehabilitation may not end Apapa gridlock, says NSE chair (Punch)
Lagos man allegedly commits suicide with insecticide (Punch) The body of a yet-to-be-identified man has been recovered by men of the Lagos State Police Command by the rail line in the Ijora-Badia area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that…
*Lagos supports innovators, tech firms with N100m grant (Punch) *NSE endows N.25m at YABATECH (Nation)
Lagos supports innovators, tech firms with N100m grant (Punch) No fewer than 23 young innovators and tech firms have been awarded a grant of N100m by the Lagos State Government. According to a statement on Wednesday, the grant is to…