…as order on Okada takes off The Lagos State Government on Monday launched a 21-day campaign to enlighten commercial motorcycle (Okada) operators and other stakeholders on the need to ensure the observance of law and order in the Transport Sector. The campaign aimed at sanitizing commercial motorcycle operation in the State, will run till the [...]

You’ve starved it, fed it, treated it with chicken soup and tried to prevent it with vitamin C. The ubiquitous common cold has no doubt wreaked havoc on your life, leaving you bedridden, miserable and often baffled by how you got it and dedicated to never getting it again. Americans catch about a billion colds [...]

Interacts with youths as Enterprise, Employability Project takes off Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday called for a complete overhaul of the programmes and courses being run in Nigerian universities saying they should be brought in tune with the nation’s current realities. Governor Fashola made the call in an address he delivered [...]

National Emergency Management Agency has called on states and local governments to establish emergency management agencies to handle cases in their respective jurisdictions during disasters. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Saturday, NEMA’s Acting Director-General, Dr. Charles Agbo, decried the general misconception about NEMA’s role in emergency management in the country. He said [...]

Residents in Lagos State have condemned the three-day solidarity strike embarked upon on Wednesday by doctors in federal hospitals in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that federal hospitals affected by the solidarity strike are Lagos State Teaching Hospital,Idi-Araba, National Orthopoedic Hospital, Igbobi, Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta and Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba. [...]

                                                                  The former Flying Eagles coach was grilled along with another ex-international, Stephen Keshi, for the top job by the NFF‘s technical committee, but the Bayelsa-born Siasia emerged tops after the interview. The NFF after the interview said, ”After careful deliberation, the Nigeria Football Federation has accepted the recommendation of the Technical Committee that Mr. Samson [...]

Entrepreneurs in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries have been urged to take advantage of membership of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) USA, to increase the quantity of their current level of exports to the US, which has been described as far below expectation. Sandra Edviebie, manager, AGOA Resource Centre, while speaking at [...]

Nigerians are spending 50 per cent of their income on food, spreading the remaining half on essential needs, such as private education, transportation and communication, reports YEMI KOLAPO, quoting the National Bureau of Statistics. The Statistician-General, National Bureau of statistics,  Dr. Vincent Akinyosoye  disclosed this in an exclusive interview with  PUNCH correspondent in  Abuja, that [...]

Residents in Lagos State have condemned the three-day solidarity strike embarked upon on Wednesday by doctors in federal hospitals in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that federal hospitals affected by the solidarity strike are Lagos State Teaching Hospital,Idi-Araba, National Orthopoedic Hospital, Igbobi, Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta and Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba. [...]

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced that there would not be any restriction of movement during this month’s environmental sanitation exercise on Saturday, August 28. A statement by the Press/Public Relations Officer, Ministry of the Environment, Mr. Adesegun Ogundeji, quoted the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, as saying that the exercise would [...]

As the nation enters the last four months of the year, popularly termed “Ember Months”, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, Wednesday assured Lagos residents of the security of life and property saying all the security agencies in the State are prepared to make the State crime free during the period. Akpoyibo, who [...]

…as order on Okada takes off The Lagos State Government on Monday launched a 21-day campaign to enlighten commercial motorcycle (Okada) operators and other stakeholders on the need to ensure the observance of law and order in the Transport Sector. The campaign aimed at sanitizing commercial motorcycle operation in the State, will run till the [...]

Determined to check the high rate of unemployment across the nation, the Federal Government on Thursday set up a private sector committee on job creation. The Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Economic Management Team, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, who identified unemployment as one of his cardinal areas of intervention, also said that 12 [...]

In the face of accelerating climate change, the Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area on wednesday embarked on a tree planting campaign with the theme “One man-One tree”.This is in line with Governor Fashola’s target of planting three million trees before the end of his  administration. The treeplanting campaign  took place at Opebi link road, to commemorate the second anniversary of the yearly [...]

The Lagos state ministry of education has reminded  the public that the ban on transfer of students from both public and private secondary schools into Lagos state model colleges is still on. The decision to ban transfers into model colleges was taken by the state executive council during the 2009/2010 admissions due to over population [...]