Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday evening, 1 August, 2023 visited the site of the helicopter crash in the State and commended the efforts of all the first responders as well as residents who joined in the rescue mission. A single-engine fixed wing – Jabiru aircraft with registration number 5NCCQ, with two passengers on board crash-landed into an old communication pole inward Ikeja Bus Stop on Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja Lagos at about 4 pm on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023. The two occupants of the helicopter were rescued and are being attended to at the hospital. Speaking to…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
A former Military Administrator of Bayelsa State, Navy Captain Caleb Omoniyi Olubolade (rtd), has urged Bayelsans to be wise in their choice of who becomes governor of the state among candidates for the forthcoming November 11 election. Navy Captain Olubolade gave the advice while making opening remarks at a reception ceremony organised by Yenebebeli 1 and 2 Communities in honour of Prof. Steve Azaiki at the St. Andrew’s Primary School playground, Yenebebeli 1 in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa. Olubolade stressed that it was important for Bayelsans to vote for a governorship candidate who would govern the state and do…
Lagos Four people narrowly escaped death on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023, after a helicopter crashed in the Oba Akran area of Ikeja, Lagos State. The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon close to a branch of the United Bank for Africa in the area. It was gathered that the chopper was used for training when it crashed into a building and went up in flames. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Services confirmed the incident. The spokesperson for the agency, Amodu Shakiru, said the occupants sustained varying degrees of injuries. He said, “The helicopter crashed into a building but nobody died.…
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) is providing support for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s newly formed Organisation, Future Perspectives, partnering to launch the “Innovation to Transform Education Training” (ITET) in Nigeria. Future Perspectives, a non-profit co-founded by the Immediate Past Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, will work with the UNESCO agency with the aim to equip young educational stakeholders with skills of innovation, policy and project implementation to support their role as changemakers, capable of developing and implementing their own initiatives, as well as other collective efforts to transform…
Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages (LASPG), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (MC Oluomo) has announced relief packages to cushion the petrol subsidy removal pain. The packages, he said, cut across commercial bus drivers and passengers. He said the tickets given to drivers at parks for N800 will now be sold for N600. All bookings, he said, would have 25 per cent reduction. For passengers, Akinsanya said routes where transport fare is N500 has been reduced to N300 while those paying N200 for fare will now pay N150. He added that commercial motorcycles (Okada riders) and tricycles (Keke Marwa) operators will gave…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Paris Saint-Germain are planning to report Real Madrid to FIFA over what they see as a potential illegal tapping up of Kylian Mbappe, the UK Telegraph reports. Mbappe is unwilling to extend his contract with the Ligue 1 champions beyond June 2024. The extension clause that exists in the 24-year-old’s current contract expired on July 31. As things stand, Mbappe will become a free agent in the summer of 2024. There have been suggestions that Madrid already have an agreement in place with Mbappe, which will see the player pocket a €160million signing on fee if he joins…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has flagged off a fresh phase of palliatives which is targeting about 300,000 households, a total of 1.8 million persons as six persons make an household. Zulum launched the distribution on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 at Muna internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Jere Local Government Area of the State. The Governor explained that Borno started the initial distribution of palliative about one month ago while scaling up the exercise to key into presidential food emergency declaration. He said: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recently declared an emergency on food security across the country.…
The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) and the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have advocated for an holistic approach to end human trafficking in Nigeria. The UNODC Team Leader, Trafficking in Persons/Smuggling of Migrants Portfolio, Abimbola Adewumi, revealed this on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023, in Abuja, at the Annual Peer Review for State Task Forces on human trafficking. The event centered on: “Bootcamp for state taskforces on human trafficking and launch of compendium of good practices in commemoration of the 2023 World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The bootcamp was organised by NAPTIP,…
United Kingdom (UK) has pledged support to make Nigeria’s agriculture sector more resilient to climate change, promising to assist more than four million people develop better farming practices and reduce harmful carbon emissions. A statement on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023, signed by Senior Communications & Public Diplomacy Officer. Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office | British High Commission, Atinuke Akande-Alegbe read: “Foreign Secretary pledges support to make Nigeria’s agriculture sector more resilient to climate change on a visit to Nigeria.” The statement added that funding from UK will help more than four million people develop better farming practices and reduce harmful…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 disclosed the planned introduction of a new visa regime, named: “Economic Trust Visa”. Addressing a press conference to commence the 60th-anniversary celebration of the NIS at the Service headquarters in Abuja, the Acting Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Caroline Adepoju, said: “We are looking at using our visa regime to support the vision of the Nigerian government in improving our economy. “We have proposed the issuance of an Economic Trust Visa whereby we will assist interested investors in checking the profiles of their would-be partners.” She added that: “We…