Olabode Adaramola Niger State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has challenged professionals in the health sector in the country to check the increasing rate of quackery, complaining that many people have been victims of wrong diagnoses. He also decried the high mortality rate of pregnant women, new born babies and children, saying the development is not acceptable and should be …
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February, 2017
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20 February
Lagos Suicide Attempt A Ruse- Police PPRO
Tayo Olanipekun The Nigeria Police has declared untrue an online report making the rounds on Monday that an unidentified young man attempted to commit suicide by jumping down the ledge of a pedestrian bridge at Jakande along the Lekki-Epe Expressway before policemen stopped him. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Dolapo Badmus, debunked the news that went viral …
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20 February
Collapsed Building: Lagos Files Criminal Charge Against Lekki Gardens Boss, Others … Charges Manslaughter, Failure To Obtain Approval
Tayo Olanipekun Lagos State Government has filed criminal charge against the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens Estate Ltd, Richard Nyong and others over the collapse of a five-storey building under construction on Kushenla Road, Ikate-Elegushi, Lagos, in which no fewer than 35 persons lost their lives. Charged along with the companies involved, Lekki Gardens Estate, GT Rich Ltd, HC Insight …
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20 February
No N250m Provision for VP’s Gate-House in 2017 Budget—FG
The attention of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning has been drawn to a series of misleading information circulating and being given prominence in the media regarding some purported provisions in the 2017 Budget proposals. This development has been going on for some time now, the latest being the false statement to the effect that a provision of N250 …
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20 February
Fire razes factory in Lagos, destroys property worth millions of naira
Tayo Alani A fire incident occurred at a plastic manufacturing company along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, close to the office of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Sunday afternoon. According to General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu, the fire incident was very severe, ravaging a company. Advertisement “I can authoritatively report a fire outbreak at Rida …
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20 February
Woman drowns as car plunges into Lagos lagoon
Tayo Alani Tragedy struck on Saturday night as a woman, identified as Chinagorom Adibe Fustine, reportedly drowned when the car she was travelling in plunged into the Lagoon at Mekwen Bridge, Bonny Camp, inward Marina at about 7:47 pm. According to General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu, the Agency received a distress call regarding a car …
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19 February
I made up my mind to do music God’s way- Liyia
Joy Ebanehita Aigbe goes by the stage name Liyia; a Hebrew word meaning greatest, beautiful, brave and tame. In this interview, she relays her experience with DAYO EMMANUEL especially as a female gospel artiste who decided to stand for Christ despite being lured to the secular stage which she termed unsafe. Excerpts: Have you noticed Gospel artistes today seem uniform …
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19 February
True love always searches for whom to help—Prophet T.B Joshua
Tayo Olanipekun The case of a 12-year-old Nigerian boy, Praise Sunday, who had a close shave with death when his family was brutally attacked in Agbor, Delta State, has once again underscored how love is truly in action in the activities of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN). The young Sunday became one of several individuals in need, within …
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18 February
70 Suspected Cattle Rustlers, Armed Robbers, Kidnappets, Culpable Homicide Suspects, Arrested By Police in Niger …457 Cows Also Recovered
Olabode Adaramola Niger state Police Command has said that within the last two weeks, it has arrested 70 suspects over offences ranging from cattle rustling, kidnapping, armed robbery and culpable homicide in the last two weeks ,while about 457 cattle were ala so recovered in the period under review. This was contained in a Press statement signed by the Police …
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18 February
First MILLIONNAIRE EMERGES IN SKYE BANK’S REWARD PROMO SEASON II DRAW …..as Ayangburen of Ikorodu endorsed the reward
One lucky customer of Skye Bank Plc., Olusolapo Olusegun Ezekiel emerged the first winner and a Millionnaire of the draw of the Bank’s flagship ‘Reach for the Skye Millionaire reward promo’ season II which held today, even as the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Shotobi endorsed the initiative as life changing. Forty other customers of the Bank also walked away …
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