The Lagos State Government has completed its five-year Agricultural master plan to boost food production in the State. Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this at an event held on Tuesday with the theme “Implementation of Exploratory Dialogue of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in the South-West Geopolitical Zone”, saying, “The State has completed its five year […]Read More
The Lagos State Government will be diverting the traffic on Adegbola Street from Sunday 11th April 2021 for 15 months in readiness for the construction of the Ikeja Overpass, Lagos Rail Mass Transit, Red Line Project. In a statement released by the Ministry of Transportation, the Commissioner, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde explained that the diversion was […]Read More
Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala has undergone surgery on her right foot, FC Barcelona Femeni have confirmed. The club in a statement said the surgery was to correct the defect on her right foot. The statement read, “The player had been suffering from discomfort for a few weeks, which had caused her to miss a […]Read More
Taiwan has come under increasing military pressure from Beijing in recent months, with China’s air force making almost daily forays in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone Taiwan will run 8 days of computer-aided war games this month, its defense ministry said on Wednesday, April 7, days after China said an aircraft carrier was conducting drills […]Read More
More than 40 jihadists, including a senior commander, were killed last week after they attacked United Nations peacekeepers in northern Mali, the UN force MINUSMA said on Monday. A UN source previously said about 20 of around 100 assailants were killed in a three-hour counter-attack after they raided a camp of Chadian peacekeepers, leaving four troops […]Read More
Determined to boost food security in the country and create jobs, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) said it has improved the capacity of over 100 rice farmers in Niger State in the area of irrigation farming. The NALDA state coordinator, Mr. Aminu Umaru, during a tour of the 417 hectares of land acquired […]Read More
The federal government has said that when passed, the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will resolve most of the knotty issues that have hindered the development of the oil and gas sector in the country since the 50s. Speaking when he rounded off a panel discussion at a pre-summit conference in Abuja, the Minister of State, […]Read More
Gritty US rapper DMX was hospitalized and on life support Saturday after a heart attack, his lawyer Murray Richman told AFP. “He was hospitalized at 11 o’clock last night at the hospital in White Plains,” the New York suburb where he lives, after suffering “a heart attack,” Richman, who has represented the rapper for 25 […]Read More
Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Funke Akindele-Bello, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mr. Eazi, Olugbenga Agboola among other Nigerians featured on the Forbes ‘100 Innovations, Inventions & Icons From Africa’. Also, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Olugbenga Agboola, Genevieve Nnaji, and Swanky Jerry featured on the list. Forbes said […]Read More
Accelerated vaccinations and a flood of government spending, especially in the United States, have boosted the outlook for the global economy, but more must be done to prevent permanent scars, the IMF said on Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook now sees global growth of 6.0 percent this year after the contraction of […]Read More