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APM Terminals set to build Badagry port
APM Terminals has announced plans to develop a new green-field mega port in Badagry, Lagos State. It said the first phase of the project would be completed in 2016. To be undertaken in conjunction with...
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Lagos noise pollution
It is apparent that the war against noise pollution by the Lagos State Government has gone the drain again. Most of the residents of Imam Thanni Street, Ijeshatedo Surulere mainly suffer from insomnia,...
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Okada ban is ok
I commend Governor Babatunde Fashola for the ban on okada in some areas in Lagos State. A majority of the riders are ‘robbers’ especially early in the morning attacking innocent people with their...
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Airtel blues
Please permit me to use this medium to comment on the poor customer service Airtel has been rendering for the past week. For over a week now, Airtel has double-charged me N2800 for its Blackberry...
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Still on PhD drivers
I hope that Abimbola Adelakun’s beautiful article on PhD holders will educate our ignorant “academics” who say you cannot be a Vice-Chancellor unless you have a PhD regardless of your specialist...
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Solve security challenge
The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo said if he became President he would neither travel out of the country nor welcome visitors of any kind, because you cannot be sweeping your house and be inviting...
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Great Ife @ 50
Our gratitude goes to Prof. Ayo Olukotun for his nostalgic reflection on the idyllic past of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. We had great dreams as Femi observed, we were the...
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Madness over Dubai
Dubai, to me, represents a wonderful creation that comes from hard work, unity of purpose and discipline. As a great business hub, people travel there for deals and tourism. But the way Nigerians now...
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NECO’s ineptitude
There is public outcry by candidates currently writing the National Examinations Council exams in Lagos especially because NECO is rescheduling examinations without adequately informing candidates of...
View ArticleTwo sisters die as building collapses in Lagos
Two sisters have been confirmed dead and some other persons injured after a two-storey building collapsed in Jakande Estate, Isolo in Lagos on Wednesday morning. They died when the low-cost Block N-20...
View ArticleNigeria’s potential
Tito Coobman, 12, Lewis Street, Lagos State, +23481035010: Prof. Niyi Akinnaso’s article titled “What is Nigeria worth beyond oil and gas?”, The PUNCH edition of Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 is instructive...
View Article‘Nigeria will be great if leaders demonstrate integrity’
International President of the Full Gospel Business Men Fellowship International, Dr. Richard Shakarian, has said Nigerian could become great if its leaders demonstrate integrity. Shakarian called on...
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Senate faults IG on laws to tackle terrorism
The Senate has expressed shock at the pronouncement by the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, that the absence of relevant laws was stalling the prosecution of terror suspects in the...
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Hamzat just completed his house – Family head
Alhaji Soga Hamzat, 71, elder brother of the slain Toyin Hamzat, speaks to SEGUN OLATUNJI in Ayepe, Ogun State Sir, how do you feel about the loss of your younger brother? His death is like putting...
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Lagos building collapse kills two sisters, injures mother
Two sisters – Toyin and Bukky Coker – were killed on Wednesday when a part of the two-storey building they lived in at M20, Jakande Low Cost Housing Estate, Isolo, Lagos, collapsed. Their mother...
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Unpaid subsidy: Diezani, NNPC report Okonjo-Iweala to Jonathan
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has alerted President Goodluck Jonathan to a looming acute fuel shortage if the Federal Government fails to pay N1.13trn subsidy owed it (NNPC), The...
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FG dares Bi-Courtney to go to court
THE Federal Government, on Wednesday, said that it was ready for any legal action by Bi-Courtney Consortium over the cancellation of the concession agreement on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. This came...
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Robbers raid seven houses in Ogun
A gang of robbers terrorised residents of Agbado, Ogun State in the early hours of Wednesday, carting away valuables worth millions of naira. PUNCH Metro learnt that the robbers attacked seven houses...
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Ogun LG boss orders assault on workers, journalists
There was pandemonium on Wednesday in Sagamu Local Government secretariat, Ogun State as the council Chairman, Funmilayo Efuwape, ordered armed thugs and suspected student cult members to beat up...
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Fire guts rooms in UNILAG medical hostel
Fire gutted two rooms in a male hostel in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi Araba, on Wednesday. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fire started from room 648 and spread to room 647 on the...
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