POLICE CLARIFIES CROWD DISPERSAL AT LEKKI TOLL GATE
Sept 22, 2023 The Lagos State Police Command has clarified “false narratives making the rounds in relation to the dispersal of crowds at the Lekki Toll Gate on Thursday. The…
Disrupted Big Pharma bets on AI to speed up clinical trials
Sept 22, 2023 Major drugmakers are using artificial intelligence to find patients for clinical trials quickly, or to reduce the number of people needed to test medicines, both accelerating drug…
Petrol increase to N626.70, Diesel N854.32 in August- NBS
Sept. 22, 2023 The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average retail price of a litre of Petrol increased from N189.46 in Aug. 2022 to N626.70 in Aug. 2023….
NCAA inaugurates joint audit committee on aviation fuel, suspends activities of non-licenced fuelers, others in the airports
Sept. 22, 2023 The Nigeria Civil Authority of Nigeria (NCAA) has set up a joint committee to conduct holistic review and audit all fuelers, fueling facilities and equipment from initial…
LASG adds 4 names to sex offenders register
Sept 22, 2023 The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has published the details of four men convicted for sexual offences to serve as deterrent to other in…
Bandits Abduct Federal University Gusau Students
September 22, 2023 Again, an unspecified number of students of the Federal University of Gusau were abducted in the early hours of Friday. The armed bandits in large numbers invaded…
World War One cemeteries, Rwanda genocide sites, Argentine torture center declared UNESCO World Heritage
September 22, 2023 World War One cemeteries in Belgium and France, the hills of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and a former torture center in Argentina have been declared UNESCO World Heritage…
Guinea junta leader denounces Western democracy amid wave of coups
September 22, 2023 Guinea’s military leader Mamady Doumbouya told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that the Western model of democracy does not work for Africa, as evidenced by a…
We’re making efforts to rescue remaining kidnapped corps members – NYSC DG
Sept. 22, 2023 Brig.-Gen. Yush’au Ahmed, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says efforts are ongoing to secure the release of the reaming five prospective corps members…
A rough patch for Nigeria’s ‘spare tyres’, by Tunde Olusunle
Chukwuemeka Ezeife, governor of Anambra State during Nigeria’s aborted Third Republic couldn’t have put it any better. Dissecting the role of deputy governors in the nation’s nascent democracy years back,…