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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…
ASUU strike not threat to reopening of varsities — FG
The Federal Government has said that it will continue to engage striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ahead of reopening of universities and other…
COVID-19: Nigeria records 404 new cases, total now 42,208
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 404 new COVID-19 cases in the country, as total infections from the virus rise to 42,208. The NCDC made this known on…
NOLLYWOOD STAR PARTNERS WITH GIVING.NG TO RAISE N1B HEALTH WORKERS FUND
Eliot Award winning actor, Desmond Elliot, has partnered with reputable crowdfunding platform, to lend his voice in support of health workers across the country. Desmond, who is also a member…
Is Formal Education Overrated in Nigeria?
One of the important features of the colonial era in Nigeria, especially in the western region, was the aspiration of parents whose means of livelihood were mainly farming and fishing…
