Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Thursday tasked working class nursing mothers on diligent and exclusive breastfeeding of their babies, just as she urged employers of labour, to support global breastfeeding campaign, through liberal work conditions for nursing mothers. She made the call at a symposium organized by the Department of Community Health and Primary Health ... Read More »
Category Archives: Society
APPOINTMENT OF DAURA AS DG OF DSS UNCONSTITUTIONAL; WHY HE MUST BE SACKED – CIVIL SOCIETY
On 3rd day of August 2015, we issued a public statement condemning the blundered presidential appointment of retired Senior Agent (director) Lawal Musa Daura of Daura-Katsina State origin as the “acting” Director General of the Department of State Security Services (DSS/SSS). We also gave the appointing authority, President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling party-APC 72hours to present publicly relevant constitutional or statutory sections ... Read More »
Breastfeeding Is For Babies, Not Husbands’ – LASUTECH CMD
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof Wale Oke has urged men to stop competing with their babies to suck the wives’ breast. Oke enjoined the men to allow their babies to enjoy their natural meal. He spoke yesterday at the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). The programme was organised by LASUTH Community Health Department in conjunction ... Read More »
DEBT ALLEGATION: ABIKE DABIRI FILES N500M DAMAGES SUIT AGAINST DIAMOND BANK
Kola Popson A former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Hon. Kafayat Abike Dabiri-Erewa has filed a five hundred million naira (N500, 000000) damage suit against Diamond Bank for falsely linking her to the ownership of a company ‘Thriller Endeavor’, on the premise that the company owes the bank to the tune of over hundred million naira. The filing ... Read More »
Event Blogger, Helen Ozor Robbed At Unilag
Kola Popson The famous Event blogger, Helen Ozor, who runs ‘Helen Events Blog’, was robbed yesterday of her valuable belongings at University of Lagos while attending a photography class with her coach at Sport Centre of the school. Helen Ozor narrated her unpleasant experience with the burglars who invaded her car where it was parked and made away with ... Read More »
LAGOS INTENSIFIES EFFORTS TO CURB MENACE OF TRAFFIC ROBBERS, STREET TRADING
…Arrests 595, Prosecutes 400, Convicts 300 Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday presided over the State Security Council Meeting with a resolve to double up efforts to check the menace of robbery in traffic gridlock in some trouble spots in the state as well as street trading. Briefing Government House Correspondents on the outcome of the meeting, State Commissioner ... Read More »
Boko Haram Members Approach Us For a Dialogue With FG – NGO
The Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), an independent Non-Governmental Organisation, on Tuesday, revealed that some Boko Haram elements had approached it for dialogue as a way of ending the insurgency in parts of the country. Executive Secretary of the centre, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (rtd), who addressed the press on sundry national issues including terrorism, cattle rustling, National Assembly crisis, ... Read More »
PHOTO STORIES: CHAIRMAN L.E.A.R.N, ABIMBOLA FASHOLA INTERACTS WITH NIGERIAN YOUTHS TO BOOST THEIR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ISOLO FIRE: SENATOR ADEOLA CAUTIONS POLICE ON CHASE
Following yet another fire incident in which lives and property worth millions of naira were lost in his senatorial district on Friday, Senator Solomon Adeola representing Lagos West Senatorial District has called on men of the Nigerian Police Force to always exercise caution and discretion in execution of their roles of prevention of crime and apprehension of criminals. While commiserating ... Read More »
Hotel Manager Found Dead In Room With Drugs
The Operations Manager of Maybeny Hotel at Ire-Akari Road in Isolo, Lagos, Mr Uche Egwuenu, was found dead in one of the rooms in the hotel on Saturday. A source at the hotel disclosed that the deceased was the son of the owner of the hotel, whose name was given simply as Chief Egwuenu. “The deceased was last seen in ... Read More »