Parents seek aid as quintuplets’ naming ceremony holds today
MUSWEN endows foundation for babies’ education AFTER the Specialist Care Baby Unit of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, had for days turned into a tourist centre following the safe...
View Article‘We want to go home,’ IDPs cry out
Some of the displaced persons THE atmosphere was frenetic as the convoy of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, made way to the nondescript camp housing the over 400 distraught...
View ArticleHow I stole my boss’ car to attend Valentine party, suspect reveals
Owoseni Police arrest over 1,000 suspects for various crimes Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Emmanuel John, 26-year-old, for duplicating...
View ArticleChaos as LASU students, NURTW clash
Scene of the clash Authorities clarify issues over death of female student IT was a chaotic scene yesterday as motorists and other road users scampered to safety when students of Lagos State...
View ArticleMan kills relative over N100 debt in Ebonyi
Tragedy yesterday struck the community of Onyikwa Alike in Ikwo local council of Ebonyi State as one Onuigbo Nwankwoeke was allegedly killed by his kinsman, Michael Ochaya, while trying to recover N100...
View ArticleVanuatu Prime Minister discusses climate change with Zuriel Oduwole
Kilman with Zuriel THE issue of climate change has become as enigmatic to some, divisive to others, yet its effects are now felt around the world more than before. Flood waters rage where dry lands...
View ArticleFoundation debuts to get children reading
Osadebe PHOTOS: CHARLES OKOLO ALTHOUGH children within the age bracket of zero -five years are highly receptive to sounds, given that they can recognize the voice of their parents and caregivers, there...
View ArticleAirport cleaner gets N600,000, The Sun award for returning N12m
Chief Executive Officer, Sterling Bank Plc, Yemi Adeola (left); Obiano; recipient, Ms Josephine Ugwu an Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, during the presentation of the cheque to Ugwu, in Lagos…at the weekend. IT...
View ArticleNurse, two others arraigned for strangling benefactor to death
THREE persons, who yesterday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos have been charged with the murder of one Helen Peters, aged 40. The accused are Henry Uwadiegwu, 25, a...
View ArticleResidents of Bada, Ishefun, Aiyetoro, others send SOS to govt
Ayobo-Ishefun RoadRESIDENTS of Bada, Ishefun and Aiyetoroin Lagos State are calling on the state government to rehabilitate their deplorable road. They are appealing to the government to make their...
View ArticleYouth group seeks permanent solution to farmers, herdsmen clashes
TO ensure abundant food production locally to meet the country’s food needs and save the country huge food import bills, a youth group, The Global Development Foundation has commenced an advocacy...
View ArticleBoy, 11, needs N3m for corrective heart surgery
AlabiLIFE has not been the same for Alabi Abdulrahman, an 11-year old boy, since he was diagnosed of a congenital heart disease (Tetralogy of Fallot) in 2009. And since then, the Paediatric Cardiology...
View ArticleAssault on journalist: Hearing begins in N500 million suit
Lagos High courtA Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday began hearing in the violation of the fundamental human rights suit filed against the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service...
View ArticleFor their father’s death, South African minors sue T. B. Joshua
TB JoshuaNearly 20 months after a six-storey building collapsed within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), two South African minors, Bulungu Malaika Wa Kalambaie (three years)...
View ArticleKAI raids Ikeja, hurls traffic violators, roadside traders into Black Maria
Offenders being taken away in a Black MariaFOR Lagosians, who still indulge in the act of not using pedestrian bridges, it may soon be a long walk to freedom as enforcement agency, the Kick Against...
View ArticleFire guts PZ Cussons on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway
Fire fighters at the scene …yesterdayProximity notwithstanding, fire yesterday engulfed PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc, which shares a fence with the Lagos Fire Service at Toyota Bus Stop on Apapa-Oshodi...
View ArticleGunmen kidnap wife of environmental rights activist in Benin
THE Wife of the Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Justina Ojo, was on Monday night abducted by some gunmen. Her husband, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo,...
View ArticleAmbode’s wife calls for end to violence against children
The wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, on Wednesday said the state government would continue to maintain zero tolerance against any form of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children....
View ArticleNNPC smokes out vandals from Ogun forest
The suspects..Inset are the jerry cans Dismantles underground depot, recovers 20,000 litres of fuel IT was theend of the road for three suspected oil vandals on Tuesday as the Nigerian National...
View ArticleMy ordeal in the hands of soldiers, lawyer recounts
A FEW weeks after a video went viral of a man, Amari Sunday, beaten to stupour by Nigerian army cadets, another Nigerian, Akintoye Gabriel Adeyemi, a lawyer, was dealt the same fate by some soldiers in...
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