Dear Readers A few hours after reading this epistle, those of you living in or connected to Nigerian affairs will be inundated with conversations about the celebration of the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. Easy to predict because nothing has really changed. There will be ceremonies, analysis, lamentations, accusations, justifications platitudes and promises about Nigeria. The […]
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Lagos Governor Babajide Olusola-Sanwo-Olu has said that his government is committed to improving the welfare of women and raising their capacity to become self-sufficient and self-reliant. Sanwo-Olu, who made the assertion on Tuesday at the 2022 WAPA Connect Conference, tagged: “The Emerging Woman’ 27.09.2022,” in Lagos, said the state government in the past three-and-a-half years […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and leaders of the Nigeria Inter-Religion Council (NIREC) have urged Nigerians, irrespective of religious and ethnic differences, to work together for peace and justice in the country. Sanwo-Olu, Mustapha and co-chairmen of NIREC – Sultan of Sokoto and leader of […]
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The Lagos State government has reassured residents of the timely completion of the Lekki-Epe Expressway with advice to motorists to obey the traffic signs at the construction site. Special Adviser on Works and Infrastructure, Aramide Adeyoye, stated this on Thursday after visiting the Awoyaya Axis of the Epe Expressway together with several stakeholders like Craneburg […]
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The ongoing Jet A1 crisis in the country would form the fulcrum of discussion at the 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) 51st Annual General Meeting and Conference, which is scheduled to hold later in the month in Oyo State. Mr Abayomi Agoro, President of NATCA, in a […]
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No nation can truly grow until its people are educated, as Nelson Mandela famously stated. Is Nigeria an example of this? The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government, FG, have reached a stage that requires some important decisions must be made over the resumption date for the tertiary institutions across Nigerians’ […]
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In a bid to ensure that the 2023 election is well managed and conducted, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, announced plans to hire nearly 1.4 million ad hoc workers in preparation for the general elections in 2023. The Chairman of the commission Prof Mahmoud Yakubu In a lecture during the introduction of […]
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Leo Kila After reading Anthony Kila’s “The Quest for Good Leadership”, I got thinking. In a way, it feels like this is a contest between the material existence of man as an animal, vs the elevated collective experience of man as a sentient conscious thinker, child of God or enlightenment searcher. We are capable of […]
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Contrary to erroneous claims by some individuals, the Lagos State government has said refuted false alarms over parking levy by its Agency, the Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA), saying that the development was designed to eliminate indiscriminate levy collections. The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederick Oladeinde, at a press briefing on the activities […]
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American tv host, Oprah Winfrey congratulated the winner of the maiden Africa education medal, the Vice Chancellor, VC, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng. The inaugural Africa education medal, launched this year by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Intel and Microsoft, saw Prof. Phakeng clinged the prize out of 10 […]
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