The plan by the Lagos State government to register all residents of the state is to create a database for economic planning for the teeming populace of the state. Kazeem Ugbodaga, Senior Staff Writer reports With an estimated population of about 20 million, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria is faced with the problem of adequate planning [...]
At this period of economic difficulties in the country, over 100,000 members of the Deeper Life Bible Church, DLBC, and invitees thronged the church’s conference centre on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway recently to seek God’s intervention in their plight. Every available seat was filled with participants eagerly awaiting the move of God in their lives. The [...]
The government of oil rich Nigerian state of Bayelsa decided something needed to be done, to stamp out the spreading of rumours. So billboards have been erected around town and a committee has been named. The campaign against rumour mongering is now underway in the home state of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. “What rumours are [...]
By Sonala Olumhense Four men were gathered around the table, each of them reeking of power, affluence and influence. “Gentlemen, I thank you for coming to my meeting,” President Goodluck Jonathan said. “I know the notice was short, but Patience insisted that I should call you. And Oronto agreed with her.” Olusegun Obasanjo shuffled impatiently [...]
ACCRA(AFP) – If you own a mobile phone and spend sunup to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana’s capital, then Iddrisu Mohammed wants you to be his spy. With an iPad in his hands and two phones in his pants pockets, Mohammed crisscrosses Accra on foot, looking for people to become informants for Jamless, [...]
HAVANA(AFP) – Aging Chevys and Pontiacs are a familiar symbol of life in Cuba, but many of the vehicles clogging the communist island’s streets these days are top of the line and fresh from the showroom. The recent startling appearance of gleaming Audis, Hummers and other high-end cars are but one sign of change in [...]
The recent visit of the Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs of the Lagos State House of Assembly to councils in the state was not an effort in futility after all writes EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Some of the journalists who joined the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy [...]
