In the last few years, activities of officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, had become a source of worry to the Lagos State Government. Though, LASTMA and KAI have been doing their best in terms of traffic control and sanitizing the environment, overzealousness and corruption have [...]
Simon Ateba Simon Ateba, a Senior Correspondent with TheNews Magazine and P.M.NEWS, who travelled by sea from Cameroon to Nigeria, narrates his near-death experience in the hands of Nigerian pirates. We were about 20 minutes from the beautiful and clean land of Calabar, Capital of Cross River State, Southeast Nigeria, when our ship came under [...]
Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, is the winner of the maiden edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership which will be held on 6 March, 2013 as announced by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation. A statement signed to that effect by the Executive Director of the Foundation, Dr. Olatokunbo Awolowo Dosunmu, said the foundation selected [...]
Train terminals at peak periods are like apparitions or paintings realised on canvas. In Lagos, the faces are usually of traders, civil servants, pensioners, young business executives and the hustlers who virtually crawl, walk and toil to make ends meet melt like a pout-pourri of images. Some of the passengers, especially the simpletons shun the [...]
For prominent Nigerians and celebrities in the country, cancer is no longer an ailment to only imagine. It is one that is currently ravaging their ranks and reducing their numbers. Just a few weeks ago, the dreaded disease which comes in different forms and attacks different parts of the body, has claimed the lives of [...]
By MAY AKABOGU-COLLINS I was a visiting professor in Paris last fall and it was the first day of class. I was making copies for my 10:30 class at the faculty lounge where two female professors were kibitzing by the coffee machine. “Oh, yeah,” one said. “Soon as I learned he’s Nigerian, I discounted everything [...]
The cremation law has been passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly against the wish of residents of the state reports EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Last Friday could be described as frustrating for staff, guests and members of the Lagos State House of Assembly because the sitting scheduled for 10 a.m did not start until about [...]
