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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 ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCDA ) has demolished the Caramelo Lounge which was located at Utako in Abuja for violating land use act . The demolition came barely three weeks after FCTA officials arrested 32 alleged strippers at Carmelo. The building is located at Plot 630 T.O.S Benson Crescent Utako The Managing Director of the club , Max Eze who said that the authority served them quit notice on Friday 10th May at 7:00pm . He added that to their surprise the FCDA mobilized their bulldozers, with police cordon around the building, and started pulling it down on Monday. Eze expressed shock at the manner in which the demolition was carried out as the officials did not allow them to take anything from the building.  The Managing Director who was visibly angry and disturbed refused to comment further as he moved round the wreckage helplessly.  It was gathered that the FCDA authority arrived the scene as early as 7:00am and asked...

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.

By Faith Karimi Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya At first glance, Sudan looks like any other northern white rhino: stout and agile, with square lips.   He grazes under the hot sun, his massive head lowered to the ground, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya.

Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower went dark Wednesday in a show of solidarity with the people of Aleppo.

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.

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

From left: Endurance Amarawa, Ibgiya Malu Chukwu and Precious Amarawa in hospital after the attacks. Photo by Hindustantimes TWO Nigerian siblings thrashed by a mob inside a Greater Noida mall, India, last Sunday, suffered facial injuries and minor fractures but have been ruled out of danger by doctors.

Five-year-old Aliyah Masaku, who was attacked by three dogs in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, has died. Aliyah died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, on Wednesday after she was transferred from the Ikorodu General Hospital, where she was first admitted.