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A general view shows a burnt land on a farm after overnight bushfires in Adaminaby, in Australia’s New South Wales state on January 5, 2020. – Australians on January 5 counted the cost from a day of catastrophic bushfires that caused “extensive damage” across swathes of the country and took the death toll from the…
By Janet Adetu When you walk through the door in any gathering, instantly we can tell a number of things about you. Believe it or not up to 11 assumptions are made regarding your economic level, education level, social position, exposure level and many more. It takes seconds to form a good first impression; it…
By Dele Sobowale Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need — Voltaire, French writer and philosopher. Work is the great cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — Thomas Carlyle, English philosopher. ON Sunday, December 27, 2019, I found myself in the taxi park situated at Sango, Ibadan,…
…As LASG vows to step up enforcement on Okoda menace Motorcycles (Okada) and Tricycles (Keke Napep) accident scenes By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has revealed that over 1500 accidents involving tricycles and motorcycles were reported from 2015 till 2019 with 689 victims dead and over 250 injured across the state. Therefore, the state…
As Ona of Abaji says everywhere calm By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA), Sunday, debunked report of alleged 3.8 magnitude earth tremor in Gwagwalada and Abaji, satellite towns in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, as allegedly captured by an Earthquake Monitoring Station at OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on January…
By Paul Orie THE people of Ndokwa East are permanently confronted with the spectre of erosion and flooding. These environmental problems have continued to take heavy tolls on the communities, washing away their farms, homes, economic trees, etc. Sadly, many of the people can no longer develop homes in their various communities. Inevitably, they are…
By Providence Adeyinka Microfinance Bank (MfBs) operators have advocated the need for regulatory support to attract investors in their bid to meet the April 2020 deadline for recapitalisation. Speaking with Vanguard in this regard, former President of the National Association of Microfinance Banks, NAMB, Mr Valentine Whensu, noted that MfB operators have an option to…
By Funnmi Komolafe The New Year is still fresh with us and we do not what it has for us. God alone knows what is in it for us. My prayer is that this would be our year of testimonies, a year that would bring an end to all challenges, a year of Laughter. However,…
…‘Only two states yet to negotiate’ By Henry Umoru THE Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, says only two states have not sat down with Labour Negotiating Committees on the 30, 000 minimum wage, stressing that they will do that and all the 36 states will pay accordingly. Umahi commences payment of N30, 000 minimum wage to…
It was like a Christmas gift. Two days to Christmas, Governor Dapo Abiodun drove through Lagos – Abeokuta Road to Ota, Ogun State, to inspect two roads being done at Osi Ota to link AIT Road and Ikola, Lagos State. Governor Abiodun signs 2020 Budget into law One of the roads – Osi Ota/AIT Road…