Court orders petty thief to do community service
An Ogudu Magistrates Court, on Monday, slapped a dredger, Mr. Peter Raymond, with three hours of community service for alleged petty theft. Raymond, 42, allegedly stole a DVD player, 13 pieces of...
View ArticleSSANU pickets FUNAAB over plans to sack members
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities on Monday picketed the Alabata campus of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to protest alleged plan by the management to...
View ArticleOmotosho, students decry Africa’s slow development
All Africa Students Union and the President, Centre for Attitudinal Healing, Dr. Mike Omotosho, have called on all stakeholders to collaborate to improve the quality of education and boost development...
View ArticleUnloved, unwanted but Igiebor salvages honour for Betis
His season was drifting to an end, his career at Real Betis too, until he popped up in the 90th minute of an insane Seville derby. Nosa Igiebor was on his last chance and so was his team. It was the...
View ArticleCorporate Nigeria Games: Skye Bank versus STI,
Skye Bank and Sovereign Trust Insurance will open the contest in the football events of the maiden Corporate Nigeria Games which begins at the University of Lagos Sports Complex on Sunday. In the...
View ArticleOgbonna flattered by Man United interest
Torino defender Angelo Ogbonna has admitted he is flattered by reported interest from Manchester United. The 24-year-old Italian international was allegedly the subject of a Manchester United scouting...
View ArticleTerror at Boston Marathon: 3 dead, 144 wounded as witnesses describe horror
It was a gruesome end to what should have been a celebration of triumph. One man’s legs were instantly blown off, yet he kept trying to stand up. Exhausted marathoners had to muscle the energy to flee...
View ArticleJonathan denies establishing committee for second term bid
President Goodluck Jonathan has described a media report insinuating that he had empaneled a 21-member committee for his second term bid in 2015 as “totally untrue and without any basis in reality.”...
View ArticleJonathan meets security chiefs
President Goodluck Jonathan is currently meeting security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja in his bid to end the violence being experienced in some parts of the country. The meeting which...
View ArticleGunmen kidnap chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan
Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan was seized from his car in Ejigbo late Monday night at about 11pm by unknown gunmen in front of his home on Ona Iwa Mimo Street Ejigbo. Eyewitnesses say Mr Bamigbetan was accosted...
View ArticleExperts call for more screening facilities
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, has said that to reduce the population of hypertensive patients in the country, governments must increase awareness and facilities available for...
View ArticleDangote boosts fight against measles with $.5m
The Dangote Foundation has contributed $500,000 through the United Nations Children’s Fund to support the Federal Government’s response to the recent measles outbreak that affected many states in...
View Article‘Cataract causes 43% of blindness’
A Consultant Ophthalmologist with Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo, Dr. Josephine Ubah, has said that cataract infection accounts for 43 per cent of blindness in Nigeria. Ubah stated...
View ArticleOgun, US-based NGO offer free medical services
The Ogun State Government, on Tuesday, vowed to revolutionise its health system to enhance provision of qualitative health care delivery to the people of the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr....
View ArticleNAPTTON decries menace of fake drugs
The National President of National Association of Pharmaceutical Technologists and Pharmacy Technicians of Nigeria, Mr. Yusuf Hojapa, has said the high incidence of substandard and adulterated drugs in...
View ArticleNMA lauds breakthrough in renal treatment
The Nigerian Medical Association has commended a team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the United States of America, for growing a functioning rat...
View ArticlePHCN Somolu’s arbitrary bill
Even as I am penning down this write-up, the last bill the Power Holding Company of Nigeria brought to me was N204,747.02.This is crazy, outrageous and very disgusting. I am therefore appealing to the...
View ArticleFrozen in mediocrity
Ayo Olukotun’s article titled, Frozen in mediocrity: A nation’s dithering work ethics, emphasised the link between mediocrity at the typical Nigerian workplace and the unwillingness to work long hours....
View ArticleMore power cuts
The PUNCH of Thursday, April 11, reported on its page 27 a statement credited to the Power Minister, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, in which he “assured” Nigerians that they should expect more power cuts. This is...
View ArticleAttention, PHCN Okota
I want to use this medium to urge the government to look into the supply and distribution of power to Lamina Lawal Street and its environs. For over three weeks now, the residents of this area have no...
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