Proliferation of arms: A growing national malady
With rising concerns on Nigeria’s state of insecurity, a situation which the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)…
Sagamu Day: Tributes as Remo indigenes remember Akarigbo
Sons and daughters of Sagamu, the headquarters of Remoland, last Saturday, trooped out in large numbers to celebrate the 32nd…
NOSDRA adopts new technology to tackle oil spill
National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has adopted a new technology to tackle the menace of oil spillage…
FCT Minister expresses worry over prevailing domestic violence
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Musa Bello, has expressed dismay over the high rate of domestic violence in…
Minister assures of funds to complete Abaji water project
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Musa Bello, has given assurance that his administration will make funds available to…
FG apologises to FCT indigenes over exclusion in appointments
THE Federal Government has apologised to indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory for their exclusion in appointments made so far…
Fashola, Swedish minister hold talks on infrastructure devt
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, BabatundeFashola and the Swedish Minister of Trade and European Affairs, Mrs. Ann Lind, have…
Rejected at 2 hospitals, sad end of lecturer who died day he was to get Ph.D
Completing his Ph.D programme must surely have been a satisfying venture for Abdul Hafeez Adedimeji, being an academic himself, but…
Dying corps member’s last words to killers: God punish them
Lawal Awwal Kontagora graduated from a Malaysian university recently and came home for the National Youth Service. He died at…
Mysterious cross of Nasarawa: How Assakio, theatre of communal war became site of religious tourism
IT all started like a rumour when news emerged from Assakio, one of the communities in Lafia Local Government Area…
This is what it’s like on the front lines of Nigeria’s unseen hunger crisis
Millions of Nigerians survived Boko Haram, but now a humanitarian catastrophe is putting their lives at risk again. After her…
People see kannywood actresses as wayward girls —Funky Mallam
After his role as Musa in foremost TV series Paradise Park in 2000, Saeed Muhammed, popularly known as Funky Mallam…
Painful prices of patriotism
The job of a reporter, ordinarily, looks glamorous basically for one thing: having the audacity to walk up to the…
General hospitals: A tale of sorrow, frustration, avoidable deaths
BOLA BADMUS, SHOLA ADEKOLA, NEWTON-RAY UKWUOMA, KEHINDE AKINSEHINDE-JAIYEOBA, NAZA OKOLI and SYLVESTER OKORUWA help Lagosians tell their sordid stories patronising…
‘Homes’ away from homes
The common belief in Lagos is that it is only the mentally-challenged people and area boys that inhabit uncompleted buildings…
Recession: Lagos residents besiege family planning clinics
The Family Clinic at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) was busy last Wednesday. It was well past 2.00 p.m.…
Poverty, hunger, sickness: Blighting many homes
“I have not eaten today. I came to school this morning hoping to get something to eat. Otherwise, I will…
Yaba market inferno: Traders, victims recount losses
Getting Tony to talk about the unfortunate fire episode that ravaged his shop and those of others in Yaba, leaving…
Setting education on a better pedestal in Oyo State
In the last few weeks, efforts had been on by stakeholders in Oyo state to polish the rough edges of…
Prisons Service shops for volunteer teachers
The Nigerian Prisons Service has appealed for volunteer teachers to assist in teaching inmates in various subject areas including Mathematics,…
