It is increasingly becoming impossible for people, mostly children of this current generation, to see some of the wide animals and birds they see in movies in real life, even when they visit famous national parks, conservation areas and zoos because some of the animals are facing extinction. A visit to any of the zoos […]
STEPHEN OLUFEMI ONI reports on the efforts of the Kwara State Government to mitigate and cushion the effects of Covid-19 pandemic and reduce poverty among the people of the state, particularly the poor and vulnerable households, using the NG-CARES programme Though the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have drastically eased off and subsided across the […]
With the recent surge of suicide in the country and around the world, has become a global public health problem. Experts have linked the rise in suicide cases to mental health problems. The World Mental Health Report launched on June 17 shows that suicide accounts for more than one in 100 deaths and 58 […]
Babato pe Okeo wo reports that human waste generated in homes now litter major streets of Akure, the Ondo State capital, raising fears of a possible epidemic outbreak Palpable fear of a possible epidemic outbreak has now gripped the residents of the Ondo State capital, Akure following indiscriminate dumping of refuse along major streets of […]
Education is said to be the bedrock of any society, it plays a very crucial role in human development. That is why countries like Canada are educationally on top with 56.275 followed by Japan with about 50.50% among others while Chad is the least educated country in the world according to Google with only about […]
Ramota Yusuf who just recently started living at her own house on Kampala Odo, off Kampala Street, Olambe, Ogun State, is one of the residents in the community that have been lamenting about the huge money they spend monthly on electricity consumption. Like most people in her situation, she believes that she was being exploited […]
July 16, 2022 has come and gone, but the events that unfolded on that date will continue to linger in the memories of the people of Osun State, the ‘Land of Virtue’. It was a day that residents of the state trooped out en masse to decide who would lead them for another four years. […]
Engineering construction giant, Julius Berger, recently donated books and writing materials to schools within the Lagos Sagamu Expressway (LSE) project corridor, writes Precious Onyinyechi… There was excitement galore recently when the nation’s engineering construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc hiked its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts by donating literary materials to students in Lagos […]
When Mr. Umar, from Katsina State, applied as a security guard to the former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. Solomon Arase’s house in Edo State, he never bargained that his life and those of his children would change for the better. At that time, Arase was a Commissioner of Police, and when his wife […]
Thirty nine years after the gruesome killing of prominent Akure indigenes during the political riots of 1983, the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi, has now declared August 16 every year as a day of prayer, setting the stage for healing process of the state capital. BABATOPE OKEOWO reports on the implications Prelude August […]