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181 students, school staff test positive for COVID-19 in Lagos
 The Lagos State government said on Friday that one hundred and eighty-one students and staff of a private boarding school in the Lekki area of Lagos state have tested…
29th DAME Awards – ‘Nestlé Prize for Nutrition Reporting’
Now in its 29th Year, the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) has called for entries of works produced in 2019. Nestlé Nigeria also calls on nutrition and wellness writers…
Python bites man’s penis while sitting on a toilet seat
The python A Thai teenager, identified as Siraphop Masukarat, has been hospitalized after a python snake bit the tip of his penis as he sat on the toilet seat. The…
COVID-19: Nigeria records lowest daily case of 221 infection
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 221 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. This figure, which was obtained from NCDC's official twitter handle Wednesday remained…
BREAKING: Lagos health commissioner, Abayomi tests positive to COVID-19
Abayomi The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for coronavirus. The Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, made this known in a Press…
Zimbabwe President Signs Law Allowing Pregnant Girls In School
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law barring government schools from excluding girls, who fall pregnant, from attending lessons. Teachers are also no longer allowed to cane pupils, under…
COVID-19: PRUDENTIAL ZENITH LIFE DONATES $100,000 TO SLUM2SCHOOL
L-R: Head of Operation, Slum2School Innovation Hub, Dr. Ruth Ebe; MD/CEO, Prudential Zenith Life Insurance, Mr. Chuks Igumbor; Executive Director/Founder, Slum2School Innovation Hub, Mr. Otto Orondaam and Chief…
Over 900 Nigerians, 20 corporations support Health Workers Fund
More than 900 individual donors, including celebrities, and about twenty corporate organizations, have donated to the N1 Billion Health Workers Fund initiated by , Nigeria’s premier crowdfunding…
Lagos State Extends Market Opening Hours
Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Governor The Lagos State government has extended the hours of operations of both food markets and non-food markets across the state. This was…
Embattled UNILAG VC heads for court to challenge removal
Embattled Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has headed for court over his purported removal from office by the Chief Wale Babalakin…