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Lagos State government’s partner, E-hailing Transport Initiative, LagRide Scheme, has called on Governor Sanwo-Olu to intervention over the forcible take over of 21 of its vehicles by Ibile Holdings. National president of Professional E-Hailing Drivers and Private Owners Association, PEDPA, Comrade Idris Shonuga, made the call at a briefing in Lagos yesterday. He alleged that […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Lagos drug kingpin, Okechukwu Ogala, at the Blue Moon Hotel in Okota area of the State. NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday said Ogala, 56, was nabbed on Friday, 1 December, 2023, with 60 wraps of methamphetamine weighing 1.009 kilograms. […]
Hon Yacoob Ekundayo Alebiosu popularly known as Dayo Bush is the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development in Lagos State. In this interview, he bares his mind on the impact of indiscriminate dredging on Lagos waterways, and illegal reclamation along the waterfront corridors, he also spoke on the need to confront the menace so as to […]
Computers have a negative influence on children’s development, say 40 researchers petitioning to stop digitization in German schools. Computers and tablets are an increasingly important part of education in school classrooms. 46.7% of the world’s primary school classrooms have access to computers, according to UN data, with figures as high as 98% in the EU. […]
Dandy Eze is the Chief Executive Officer of a Lagos based non-governmental organization, Parts of Peace Initiative, PPE. He is also a freelance journalist. He was in Enugu, recently, to see his children who have been living with his former wife, five years after their divorce. Luckily, after he was able to locate where they […]
All Nigerian tribes are guilty of buying and building on illegal lands and settling the system. The biggest problem is actually with the leadership that knowingly allows buildings where they shouldn’t be or allow buildings without approvals. If you have built in any major city in Nigeria, you will know how government officials come and mark X […]
The two wiper blades of the commercial bus Tajudeen Onileola drives are gone. Also, one of the vehicle’s side mirrors has disappeared. According to Tajudeen, who plies the Mile 2-Oshodi route, his vehicle’s parts did not disappear deliberately. He has, however, not bothered to replace them. On why he has not done so, he told […]
*Advises airline operators to get updated weather reports for effective planning of operations The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze and sunshine from today to Tuesday across the country.The agency advised airline operators to get updated weather reports from it for effective planning in their operation, ” it said. NiMet’s Weather Outlook, released […]
Prime Minister of Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU), Dr. John Metchie, has revealed that a huge stretch of land is available in Umueri community, Anambra East Local Government, for Igbo traders and other businesses to build an international market of global standard. Metchie who is also the President-General of Umueri General Assembly, stated […]
EMBOLDENED by complicit state governments and politicians, commercial vehicle operators and transport union toughs have continued to afflict the residents of the South-West states. Among other acts of lawlessness, the recent violent clash between commercial motorcyclists and transport union enforcers (agberos) at Akute and Alagbole areas of Ogun State reminded Nigerians of an anomaly that […]
