As a way of mitigating flooding during the rainy season, the Lagos State Government has issued a 48-hour eviction notice to property owners who have built illegal structures and to squatters along the Gbagada-Bariga Channel. In a series of tweets on his verified account on X, the Lagos State Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources,…
Following the heavy flooding which rocked many states across the country, the Director General National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Zubaida Umar has activated all Zonal, Territorial and Operation offices of the agency nationwide, to work with the States’ Emergency Management Agencies (SEMAs) within their area of responsibilities, to carry out rescue operations and conduct assessment…
Eu’s climate monitor has declared June 2024 as the hottest June on record across the globe. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. “This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted INTERPOL over plans by former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello to escape from Nigeria to North African Sources within the anti-graft agency revealed that various strategies are being considered to address the situation, including the possibility of storming the Kogi State Government House in Lokoja, where…
The 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has offered scholarships to all the children left behind by Mr. John Okafor popularly known as Mr. Ibu who died recently. The scholarship would enable them to study in any university of their choice. He also donated 5 million Naira each to the family. Obi, however,…
The founder and leader of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Sunday, warned Southeast governors and Senators to stop politicizing the release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Sounding the note of warning, Uwazuruike in a viral video faulted the way the Governors…
……Laments Dying Igbo Culture,Tradition Igbo apex socio -cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Ebonyi State has decried dying Igbo culture and tradition. The organization said people no longer respect elders, value hardwork and other virtues the Igbo was known for many decades ago. It further observed that the people have left their cultures and tradition and…
Thousands of people many of them fans of Rob Burrow lined the streets to pay their respects to the Leeds Rhinos legend and motor neurone disease who has been buried. Burrow passed away at the age of 41 on June 2, four and a half years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. The service…
Reactions have trailed Niger state governor’s action seen in a video which has since gone viral showing the governor ordering one of his security aides to ‘slap’ an Islamic Cleric The Governor according to the video which has gone viral ordered his aide,“Slap him, very well. I said slap him. Go and arrest him. Deal…
The chairman of South-South Table Tennis Association, Ama-Ebi Wilson Ebikpolade, has hinted at plans to float a league that will involve all the Table Tennis Clubs in the region He made this known in a chat with journalists at the final day of the 4th edition of a 2-day mini-Table Tennis tournament for children from…
