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Winifred Bosa The Lagos State Government has launched a new taxi scheme with 1,000 brand-new GAC-branded cars. The scheme, codenamed ‘Lag Ride’, was launched at a ceremony held at the State House in Alausa recently. According to a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos Government, Gboyega Akosile, the ride-hailing taxi initiative, […]
AstraZeneca has launched a global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge to help accelerate ideas to transform the treatment of some of the world’s most complex diseases. The challenge, launched at EXPO 2020 Dubai, invites final year MD and/or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from across the world to propose their innovative ideas to help accelerate drug discovery […]
Lagos State Safety Commission says its set to implement insurance for all public buildings and buildings under construction, setting the stage for insurance to be the risk carrier in the event of building collapse. Director General of the state safety commission, Lanre Omojola, who was joined in the briefing to herald the position of Lagos […]
Tom Tom, leading candy brand from Cadbury Nigeria Plc (a part of Mondelēz International), as part of its efforts to champion and encourage youth creativity and drive, has officially announced that registration for its inaugural ‘Breathe for It’ Summit is now open. The event, which has been tagged, “Music: Africa’s New Export”, is scheduled to […]
North Korea appeared to have fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened military tensions on the peninsula after a spate of larger missile launches by the nuclear-armed North. While they garner much less attention than the massive intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), North Korea has displayed several new types […]
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has ordered MultiChoice Nigeria (MCN), to introduce an additional feature that allows subscribers to increase the number of times they could suspend their subscription. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Order was signed by its Director, Legal Service, Mr Tam Tamumokonbia, and made available […]
The Splendour Child Empowerment Foundation announced on Sunday that the group would take up issues relating to health and education needs of less-privileged kids in the country. The founder of the foundation, Miss Splendour Joe-King, made the announcement when she featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. Joe-King, who is also […]
Winifred Bosa The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to promptly and thoroughly investigate how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply has been allegedly squandered by governments […]
An Oil and Gas Expert, Mr Charlse Majomi, has called for a concerted drive and clearer fiscal terms to incentivise investments for increased upstream production of crude oil. Majomi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Sunday said the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) needed to be clearer for increased […]
China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country’s northeast as it battles its biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept Covid at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions. But the Omicron strain has […]