Inauguration of the newly-upgraded Oba Sekumade Road in Ipakodo, Ikorodu Division, on Friday, moved the residents into spontaneous jubilation in a show of appreciation to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for fulfilling his pledge. Sanwo-Olu commissioned the infrastructure, which now provides easy access to residential and industrial areas in Ibeshe, Igbogbo-Baiyeku, Ebute Ipakodo, Ikorodu town and Ipakodo Mega Jetty Terminal. The Governor also rehabilitated the failed sections of T.O.S Benson Road, covering a stretch of 500 metres. To ease vehicular congestion on the T.O.S Benson Road, a comprehensive junction improvement project was carried out by the State Government to diffuse…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
MKO Abiola Airport in Ido Osun, Osun State, will be completed in no distance time as all impediments and roadblocks to its completion will now be resolved. This was disclosed when the Governor of the State of Osun, Sen. Demola Adeleke, paid a working visit to the former governor of the state and Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in his office in Abuja on Friday. “I’m concerned about the state of our infrastructure in Osun. Osun remains the only state in the South West without an airport. Osun has a lot of potential, but we are restricted due to…
By Abdulkadir Ibrahim Mustapha Habib Ahmed was appointed as the new Director General of NEMA by President Muhammadu Buhari in June 2021. Following his appointment, I wrote an article titled Mustapha Habib: 100 Days of Strengthening Emergency Preparedness, Response, Mitigation, and Recovery, which was published in several National Dailies to commemorate his 100th day in office. I attempted to summarize it in the article below. Despite the fact that the 100-day mark is mostly arbitrary, it has become a significant symbolic threshold for assessing how well a new leader is doing. The first 100 days frequently reveal a leader’s management…
Osun State Government has launched the HIV Treatment Surge Initiative, through collaboration with the United States’ President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC). Speaking at the launch event, U.S. CDC Country Director Mary Boyd emphasized that Surge efforts in health facilities and with communities were not business as usual for the state’s HIV programme, but rather intensified and innovative approaches and partnerships to increase the number of people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment. She said, “a lot of hard work will be needed to reach…
The Joint Investigation Centre (JIC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with financial support from Italy have commissioned a new evidence storage facility in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to boost the ongoing war on terrorism. A press statement by the UNODC office in Nigeria on Friday read: “Earlier today, the Joint Investigation Centre (JIC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held an event to commission a new evidence storage facility at the JIC in Maiduguri, Borno State. “Through the generous financial support of the Republic of Italy, this infrastructure investment is…
In order to combat the threat of drug trafficking and abuse in West Africa, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has conducted training for six countries in the sub-region on how to dismantle clandestine laboratories. According to a statement on Thursday, 30 March, 2023, by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, the training took place in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire, from March 27 to 29, with six West African countries of Republic of Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, The Gambia, Cote D’Ivoire plus those from Nigeria participating, in the project which was organised by ECOWAS. The project known…
A humanitarian intervention focused on providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower over 300,000 mothers and caregivers. The intervention aims to enhance dietary practices, home-based malnutrition screening skills, provision of high impact lifesaving nutrition interventions (such as early identification and referral of acute malnutrition cases for treatment), and micronutrients supplementation to prevent infections among children. These interventions are aimed at improving the survival of children affected by conflict. Funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK Government, the Multisectoral Integrated Nutrition Action (MINA) project is being implemented by UNICEF…
Worried about the number of out of school children and it’s negative effects on the society, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Bothers Across Nigeria (BAN) has presented scholarships to 10 indigent secondary students. This is just as the NGO expressed concern over the low budgetary allocation to education, which it said has contributed to decay in the system. Speaking with journalists at the Biannual Conference of BAN, with the theme: ‘When Education Cannot Wait’, the Global President of BAN, Engr. Azubuike Onowu called on policymakers to vote more money into the educational sector. Lamenting the spate of out of school children,…
The Federal Government has restated its commitment to ameliorate the challenges encountered by Nigerians during the process of applying for and obtaining the Nigerian passport by improving service delivery and streamlining of its operations. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, gave the commitment on Tuesday, 28 March, 2023, while commissioning the Ilesa Passport Front Office and Production Centre, of the Nigeria Immigration Service in Ilesa, Osun State. Aregbesola, while noting that the surge in the number of applications necessitates the establishment of more passport front offices across the country, insisted that this was borne out of the determination of President…
By Soffiyyah Olamide The Ogun State police command has arrested famous singer, Habeeb Okikiola, commonly called Portable, who had earlier refused to honour the police invitation. Recall that on Tuesday, 28 March, 2023, two videos of the musician raining curses and rough-handling some men of the Nigeria police surfaced on the internet. Portable’s arrest is coming after the police gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the singer, which elapses today, Friday, 31 March, 2023. The police had condemned the singer’s actions and also threatened to prosecute him. Portable had claimed that an internet fraudster had brought the police to his bar…