One person died while two others were rescued alive following the partial collapse of a two-storey building undergoing manual demolition in Aboru, Lagos. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed the incident in a statement made available to reporters on Thursday in Lagos. The statement was signed by its Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu. Oke-Osanyintolu said the incident occurred at about midnight at No. 42, Governors Road, Aboru, in the Alimosho area of the state. He said the Alpha Eagle Response Team was dispatched from the Cappa, Oshodi Response Unit at 12:56 a.m. following a distress call. According to…
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The National Vice President, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), South-East Region, Mr Izuolisa Onu, says the poultry industry remains one of the fastest pathways to food security, job creation and wealth generation. Onu said this on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of a two-day Eastern International Poultry Summit (EIPS) 2026, ongoing in Enugu. He said that the summit, with the theme “From the Farm to Market: Scaling Nigeria’s Poultry Trade and Investment,” was the biggest poultry show in the South-East of Nigeria. “Farm to market is a call to action; it is about closing the loop. “This is a value…
Tijjani Galadima, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Adamawa, on Thursday expressed determination to use agriculture as an engine for economic development if elected in 2027. Galadima made this known at a news conference for the inauguration of his campaign on Wednesday in Yola. “Adamawa has land, water, livestock and mineral resources. We have hardworking farmers, enterprising women, a large young population and a strategic location. “Agriculture must therefore become a major engine of our second transformation. But we must stop thinking about agriculture as farming alone,” he said. According to him, modern agriculture is an entire economic…
A grassroots and climate change advocate, Mr Tunde Enitan, has called for grassroots participation in tackling climate change and environmental challenges. Enitan, Founder and Executive Director of the Mushin to the World Foundation, an NGO, made the call in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. He spoke on the sidelines of the Mushin-Odiolowo Climate Change Conference (MOCCC) 2026. The theme of the conference is “Beyond the Crisis: Building a Climate-Ready Mushin and Odi-Olowo.” He said the conference was conceived to take the climate change conversation beyond high-level forums to local communities where many environmental challenges originate. According to him, climate…
Investing in adolescent girls’ education can generate more than 21 times the initial investment through improved education, health and economic outcomes, Prof. William Rudgard, an Oxford University researcher, has said. Rudgard made the statement while presenting evidence on investing in adolescent girls at a Malala Fund side event during the Gender & Inclusion Summit (GS-26) in Abuja. The session, titled “Education Ends Child Marriage: From Evidence to Action in Nigeria’s Northwest and Northeast,” brought together policymakers, development partners, civil society organisations and girls to examine education as a strategy against child marriage. Rudgard said modelling for Kano and Kaduna showed…
The Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative (ASRTI) has commended the Federal Government for intervening in the delayed payment of retirement benefits to former Nigeria Airways workers. The association also praised President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, for responding to the workers’ plight. Air Commodore (rtd.) Ademola Onitiju, ASRTI President, made the commendation in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos. Onitiju noted that former Nigeria Airways workers had endured more than two decades of hardship following the liquidation of the national carrier in April 2003. He urged the Federal Government to complete…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has declared what he described as a “small state of emergency” on waste management to address challenges affecting refuse collection and disposal across the state. Sanwo-Olu made the declaration on Wednesday during an inspection of the Olusosun dumpsite in Ojota, Lagos. He was accompanied by his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, and the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab. The governor said the inspection was aimed at identifying the immediate challenges confronting waste management operations and developing short-, medium- and long-term solutions to the situation. He noted that the state had, in…
First Lady Sen. Oluremi Tinubu has unveiled an initiative to train 5,000 women and youths in agricultural mechanisation, digital agriculture, equipment operation, maintenance and agribusiness. Tinubu, represented by the wife of the Vice President, Nana Shettima, unveiled the Agri-360 Mechanisation Training Initiative at a National Colloquium on the Role of Women and Youth in Advancing Agricultural Mechanisation on Wednesday in Abuja. The programme was organised by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with Mela-Pat Chiyoma Ltd. as a three-year initiative to equip beneficiaries with practical mechanisation and agribusiness skills. According to her, agricultural mechanisation would boost…
The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Prof. George Ugwu, says the state has acquired the capacity to produce over 900 medical doctors annually in the near future. Ugwu spoke against the backdrop of the increase in the admission quotas for the Colleges of Medicine approved by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The four colleges include the College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology; College of Medicine, University of Nigeria; College of Medicine, State University of Medical and Applied Sciences; and College of Medicine, Godfrey Okoye University. He said that the approval was part of…
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has urged Nigerians to begin preparations against Lassa fever before infections rise during the approaching dry season. Idris gave the advice in Abuja on Wednesday at a news conference, emphasising that early action by government, health workers, communities and households was essential to reducing infections and preventing avoidable deaths. He said Lassa fever occurred throughout the year, but cases tended to increase during the dry season, particularly between November and April, making early preparedness crucial to controlling transmission. According to him, the period before the…