The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit yesterday arraigned 65 offenders at the Special Offences (Mobile) Court over movement during the ‘COVID-19 Midnight Curfew’ on New Year’s Day in Lagos. There has been a curfew put in place by the federal government since the pandemic broke out in the country as one of…
Shams Media Services, a subsidiary of Sharjah Media City (Shams), and OMNES Media, an integrated media and communications solutions company, have launched OMNES Influencers platform in its Beta Edition to help users explore and benefit from an ever-expanding online market, which is witnessing a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 32%. “The global influencer platform…
Portuguese Health authorities are investigating the sudden death of a health worker who was found dead two days after receiving the COVID vaccine. The health worker, identified as Sonia Acevedo aged 41, worked in the paediatrics department at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto. She was said to have received the vaccine shot on…
This is particularly a significant event in the history of Abbey a proof of the new management’s commitment to the growth and positioning of the organization. This recapitalization is being undertaken as part of the long-term strategic plan to strengthen the position of Abbey, which will put the Company in a good position to harness…
As part of the New Year celebration, the Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, has put smiles on faces of some widows in Nnewi, Anambra State. The event, which was held on Friday, January 1, 2021 had excited widows numbering over 55 going home with food-items and financial empowerment. Speaking at the…
Lasaco Assurance Plc, under the new leadership of Chief Mrs Teju Philips, has scaled the first hurdle of the recapitalisation exercise for insurance and reinsurance companies mulled by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for the strengthening of the financial bases of underwriters. The Company met the 31st December 2020, deadline given to underwriters to recapitalise…
Nigerians from every nook and cranny have continued to mourn the death of former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe. Prof. Ibidapo-Obe aged 71 reportedly died from COVID-19 complications on Sunday, January 3. The professor who emerged the overall best graduating student of the University of Lagos in 1971 was…
The Lagos state government has reversed its earlier decision of shutting down schools indefinitely by announcing the reopening of all public and private schools in the state for the second term of 2020/21 academic session from Monday, January 18, 2021. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who revealed this on Monday, stated that the…
The Governor of Ogun State Dapo Abiodun has suspended the Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office pending the conclusion of an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year old Barakat Mayowa Melojuekun. Barakat Melojuekun who is secondary school final year student had accused Abudu-Balogun of subjecting her to sexual…
The Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman Abdulrasaq, has dissolved the members of his cabinet in just a year after they were inaugurated into office. In a statement released late Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, the cabinet had been relieved with effect from December 31, 2020, though the Secretary to…