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Dele Ogunyemi The Nigerian Navy Logistics Command, Oghara in Delta State has commenced the construction of the Naval Officers’ Wives Association Skills Acquisition Centre. The Command’s Coordinator of NOWA, Mrs Loveleen Lassa disclosed this during the commissioning of the NOWA’s Secretariat and the foundation laying ceremony of the association’s proposed Shopping Complex at the Logistics Command in Oghara. Mrs Lassa said that the skill acquisition project when completed would serve as part of the NOWA’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative to the host communities. She said, “The skill acquisition centre will be opened to members of the host communities as part of the NOWA’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative. “The structure will have offices and a conference room on the lower floor, while the upper floor will accommodate the Skills Acquisition Centre that will comprised tailoring and bakery sections.” Lassa, in her address on the occasion also thanked the leadership of th...

By Deji Lambo In commemoration of this year’s World Malaria Day electricity distribution firm, Ikeja Electric, has donated mosquito nets to residents of Ajegunle community in the Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. The Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand’s Supervisor, IE, Adebimpe Akintola, said apart from Ajegunle, five other communities in the state were also beneficiaries of the gesture targeted at 6,000 residents. Akintola said apart from giving out mosquito nets, the firm was also educating residents on the best way to prevent malaria. She said, “We are concurrently running this intervention across six different communities in the state and our plan is to target at least 1,000 people in each of the six locations where the project is being executed. We have 1,000 mosquito nets with us and the plan is to give everything out freely to the people.” The residents said whenever it rained, the community was always flooded, adding that ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism on the release of more of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, after 21 of them were freed by Boko Haram, following more than two years of captivity.

By Kieron Monks, CNN They destroy like swarms of locusts, breed like rabbits, and are masters of disguise.  Multiple species of armyworm moths are laying waste to vast tracts of farmland across southern Africa. In their larval stage, the inch-long pests have destroyed thousands of hectares of crops in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi -- threatening food security and livelihoods in a region still reeling from a devastating spell of drought.

A suspected suicide car bomb in Turkey has killed 13 soldiers aboard a bus and wounded 55 more, Turkish officials say.

By U. D. Okechukwu Okay my people. Do you remember our bus park? That place where we will enter all those rugged-ever dirty-malnourished-everlasting gear problem-slow buses either to boundary or Mile 2. Yes! That place that has the gateless entrance at Airport road and another gateless exit on Cardoso street is now an entertainment garden. Well, the term ‘entertainment garden’ is simply packaging, we have to package our community small nah right? It’s actually an array of beer parlor shops and restaurants that has a big space in the center where people sit in the evening to have a chilled bottle of beer and a hot plate of food or pepper soup.  Those old buses have all been sold to condemn by their owners and During the day, some korope buses carry passengers to Boundary only. From 6pm, they stop! Then the parade of the park changes. Feel free to stop by at any of the shops inside the park to get a chilled beer, pepper soup, nkwobi, rice and beans, Akpu na ofe egusi, amala ati ewedu...

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said it would no longer allow indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the road networks across the state on the basis of queuing up for Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as fuel, just as it threatened to sanction any erring filling stations and motorists who flout the directive.

The Controller General of Prisons, Dr Peter Ekpendu, (mni) has promised to strengthen capacity development of his workforce to enable the Prisons address some of the perennial problems facing the Service. He said this during a national retreat on Development of the Nigerian Prisons Service Training and Capacity Building Strategic plan for 2015 – 2020 held in Rockview Hotel Abuja.

A 22-year-old housekeeper, Tanko Abdulateef, who was arrested by the police in Lagos State for killing his employer in the Lekki area of the state, says an evil spirit moved him to commit the crime.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and his Kebbi State counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu on Wednesday launched the much anticipated Lagos-Kebbi Rice christened LAKE RICE, saying that the partnership which culminated into the launch was not only designed to ensure food security but showcase the ability of Nigeria to become a producing nation.