A leading innovator in consumer electronics and sustainable solutions, LG Electronics, on Thursday, donated a solar-powered borehole to the Agba-Akin community in Ibadan, Ibadan North East Local Government Area of Oyo State, to save residents from waterborne disease. The initiative, according to the firm, is to address the critical need for a reliable source of

OrderPaper, Nigeria’s famous parliamentary monitoring body has scored the National Assembly low in terms of legislative input in the past year. This is as the organisation stated that a total of 164 lawmakers made up of 15 Senators and 149 House of Representatives members failed to sponsor a bill since the inauguration of the 10th

The recent decision by the Federal Government to peg the minimum age for candidates sitting for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination may have come to stay, the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education has said. The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, had in July stated that with effect from 2025, any candidate

The Lagos State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese firm for the actualisation of the Green Line Rail mass transit project. The state government also signed a MoU with a Chinese food processing company, Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings Co. Limited, to increase productivity in the rice value chain and enhance food

The Federal Government has announced that only buyers with National Identification Numbers would benefit as it commenced the sale of 30, 000 metric tonnes of milled rice to Nigerians at a subsidised rate of N40,000 per 50kg bag. President Bola Tinubu, represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, stated during the

Cristiano Ronaldo became the first men’s player in history to score 900 goals in official matches, reaching his latest milestone in Portugal’s UEFA Nations League match against Croatia in Lisbon on Thursday. Ronaldo secured the historic goal with a volley from 6 yards off a cross from Nuno Mendes to put Portugal 2-0 up in

Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Kenya four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend, Ugandan athletics officials said Thursday. “We have learnt of the sad passing on of our Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei… following a vicious attack by her boyfriend,” the president of the Uganda Olympic Committee Donald Rukare said in

The Minister for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, has said that it is expected that there will be availability of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, by the weekend. The Minister stated this following a meeting with the Vice President, as well as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum

The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday confirmed that the Nigerian Army has handed over one Adeleye Ayomide, 23, who is accused of killing a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Idowu Christiana. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a message he shared on his X