Thursday, 26 December, 2024

Category: Environment


A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa said a leaked Lagos State Government memo on secret mass burial of 103 victims of the October 2020 EndSARS protest is one of the many surprises to come. Adegboruwa stated this while speaking Read more…


Reports had it that the victims were scooping fuel after a petrol tanker fell and spilled it’s contents and exploded after the driver lost control. The incident, it was gathered happened along Showboy road, opposite Optima filling station in Ore, Read more…


The Lagos State Government says the recent demolition of distressed buildings in Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Council was neither a witch-hunt nor intended to acquire the land but done to protect lives. Mr Gbolahan Oki, General Manager, Lagos Read more…


DANIELS IGONI examines the Bayelsa State’s Oil and Environmental Pollution Commission’s findings on the devastation caused by oil exploration in the state, the culprits and the way forward Bayelsa State holds the enviable record of being the first state in Read more…


The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed that a couple, their two children and others died from suspected generator fumes in their residence at Nkwele Ezunaka, near Onitsha. The Onitsha-based trader, his wife, two children, mother in-law and newly arrived Read more…


An Australian sailor who had been adrift at sea with his dog for three months has been rescued by a Mexican tuna boat in international waters, the fishing vessel’s owner said Monday. Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock, 54, was aboard his incapacitated Read more…


Former governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has described the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as a cash cow organisation that needs to be reviewed.  Wike stated this while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of Governor Siminialayi Fubara’s N195.3bn Port Read more…


Friday, 30 September 2022 is indelible in the mind of Francis Uyanne, a resident of Atani in Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State. That was the day he and his family members “walked on water.” “We just woke Read more…


The Nigerian Navy on Sunday said it deactivated a boat laden with suspected stolen crude in Bayelsa. It also said the Navy Ship SOROH (NNS SOROH) troops recovered two AK-47 rifles, six AK-47 magazines, and 133 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. Read more…


A Nigerian Air Force plane – FT-7NI trainer aircraft – has crashed in Makurdi, the capital of Benue state. According to reports, the incident happened on Friday evening, while on a routine training exercise. The NAF Director of Public Relations Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The people of Ayamelum and parts of Anambra East LGA have sent a Safe Our Souls(SOS) to Gov Charles Soludo to help work on deplorable roads in the area. The spokes person for the affected communities, Chief Read more…


The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the federal government to shelve its plan to increase electricity tariff by 40 per cent July 1, 2023. It said that if nothing is done to halt increases in tariffs and cost of goods Read more…