Sanitary pads are a luxury in many homes in Nigeria. A pack of disposable sanitary pads on the average costs between N300.00 and N350.00. For a three or five day menstrual period, girls will conservatively, use two packs costing 700.00naira. …
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have intercepted the sum of $8,065,612m about to be illegally ferried out of the country through one of the international airlines. The service said that the sum…
The Lagos State Government has launched an Incident Command System as part of efforts to prevent an outbreak of the fast-spreading Coronavirus in the state. While launching the Incident Command System, the governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the measure is…
The African Development Bank’s 2020 African Economic Outlook (AEO) has said that the economy of Africa is on course to pick up to 3.9 percent in 2020 and 4.1 percent in 2021. The bank also said that though the economic…
Barely 24 hours after some unions and staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria took over the management of the access gate at the Lagos Murtala Muhammed Airport, security personnel have taken over the point. The access gate, which…
BY LAZ UDE EZE | Today is World Cancer Day – a day set aside by cancer advocates globally to raise global awareness, improve education and catalyse individual and government actions towards cancer control. I have been reflecting on the cancer situation…
By John Gramlich is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center. President Donald Trump has added Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, to a list of countries whose residents face restrictions on travel into the United States. With the new policy set to take…
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has revealed that the unending spate of insurgency in the North-east is hinged on the increasing trust deficit between the military and civil authorities. He also attributed the increasing attacks by bandits and insurgency…
Victims! The spot of ‘victims’ in my headline was sealed six months ago by one of the senior officers of Pedro Police Station, Shomolu, Lagos. It was Friday July 19, 2019, the night I was released from Ikoyi Prison at…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has dismissed a misinformation making the rounds especially on social media that a case of novel CoronaVirus has been recorded in the State stating that there is…
