The United States on Thursday pledged to provide $1 million in humanitarian aid for flood victims in Nigeria. US Consulate in Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, regretted the unusually heavy rainfall and resulting flooding that has affected nearly 2.8 million people across the country, with many homes being damaged or completely destroyed, displacing millions of people. […]
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The Federal Government on Thursday declared that it was yet to take a concrete decision to outlaw the operation of motorcycles, popularly called Okada as a form of commercial transportation in the country. Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, made the clarification in Abuja while speaking at the Annual Strategic Stakeholders Summit of the […]
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The Senate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has approved a revised academic calendar for the continuation of the 2020/2021 Academic Session. This is contained in a statement by Mr Richard Arifalo, the FUTA’s Registrar, on Thursday in Akure. The statement said that lectures leading to the completion of the First Semester would […]
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After spending six weeks in office, one of the shortest spells in British political history, British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced she is resigning from her post. This followed her admission that she could not “deliver the mandate on which I was elected.” She is standing down as Conservative leader immediately but will remain prime […]
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Nigerian university students are expected back in class after the suspension of an eight-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The suspended ASUU strike started on Monday, February 14. Since suspension of the strike on Friday, October 14, a number of universities have released internal memos and circulars announcing their resumption date. […]
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The Nigerian Medical Association on Wednesday said Nigeria has about 24, 000 actively licensed physicians caring for its over 200 million population as a result of brain drain in the country. Its President, Dr. Ojinmah Uche, said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a policy dialogue on Nigeria’s health sector brain drain and its implications […]
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The Federal Government, through the Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, has said that the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon was not responsible for the flooding that has devastated parts of Nigeria. This is just as the government said no fewer than 4,885 households were affected by the recent flooding in Ogun Adamu made this […]
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No fewer than 10 people were burnt to death in a tanker explosion at Araromi on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday morning. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun, Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. Umar said that the accident occurred around Conoil in Araromi before Sagamu Interchange on the expressway. […]
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Youths in their numbers on Thursday morning showed up with dummy coffins and bloodstained Nigerian flags at Lekki toll gate in Lagos State to commemorate the second-year memorial of the EndSARS protest shooting. The procession passed through the Lekki Tollgate, the scene of the killings that took place on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Following are […]
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Falz at the car procession which held at the #EndSARSMemorial protest Popular singer, Folarin Falana, aka Falz, led several protesters to the Lekki Tollgate on Thursday in memory of the shooting that took place at the toll gate on October 20, 2020, which allegedly led to the loss of lives. The second memorial of the […]
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